HMS Vanguard First Impressions - Leviathans Dev Server - War Thunder - video Dailymotion

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Today we take our first look at the "Leviathans" dev server by examining HMS Vanguard, the new British top tier battleship in War Thunder!  Support me at ⬇️ ☕Buy me a Coffee➡️ buymeacoffee.com/Toreno  Social Media ⬇️ 🦋Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social 🌍Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 📸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 🐘Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social 🧵Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170  🎮 Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  #warthunder #royalnavy #vanguard #leviathans #devserver   Intro: 00:00 Armament: 00:44 Armour: 02:44 Speed and crew: 03:37 FCS systems: 03:58 Conclusion: 04:35

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00:00so with the opening of the leviathan's dev server we can now take a look at the new top tier

00:05battleships being introduced in the update and we're going to start off by looking at the new

00:09british top tier battleship hms vanguard which is coming in at rank 7 battle rating 8.0 just after

00:16hms warspite now 8.0 sounds like a massive jump in capabilities and to be fair it is from hms

00:23warspite which is a 7.3 battleship but this is actually tied with the italian roma as the lowest

00:29battle rating vessel introduced in this update all of the other ones are coming in at 8.3 and 8.7

00:36and to be frank it's because while this is a big upgrade over warspite it's not as big an upgrade

00:42as the other nations battleships for example the main armament these four twin 15 inch guns are the

00:49same ones as found on hms warspite now to be fair you do get better shells so you've got your semi

00:54armor piercing shell and the mark 17b which is the warspite's top tier shell but we also get the mark 22b

01:03which has a maximum penetration of 631 millimeters to 231 millimeters at 5 000 meters while having the

01:11same explosive content as hms warspite's top tier shell so this is a pretty good increase over the

01:19mark 17b's penetration but not drastically so compared to some of the other nations shells

01:25we also have much better secondary weapons so we've got eight twin 5.25 inch turrets which might seem

01:33like a bit of a downgrade because of course hms warspite had a whole bunch of six inch and four

01:37inch guns but the six inch guns were only good for against enemy vessels and were in sort of not very

01:43good places for against aircraft while the four inch guns were obviously a lower caliber and didn't

01:48necessarily have access to the best anti-air shells whereas vanguard secondaries yeah the

01:53anti-ship weapons aren't necessarily the best so they're not the worst either but we do have access

01:58to the hevt shells so much better for taking down enemy aircraft and of course because they're in

02:04turrets they can be used against aircraft and enemy vessels meanwhile the actual anti-air armament

02:09itself is also much improved for example the eulacans are now gone which were only very good at very

02:14short ranges anyway and instead we've got a whole bunch of bofers so you've got a twin mount right

02:19here at the front you've got 11 40 millimeter single barrel mounts and then you've got 10

02:24sextuple mounts so six barrel both are guns and we've got 10 of them so 60 barrels just between those

02:31armaments plus another 11 so 71 then the dual mount so 73 both are barrels all over the ship

02:37so good long range firepower between the 5.25 inch and the 40 millimeter guns the armor is a bit weird

02:46because it actually maxes out 381 millimeters but towards the rear of the vessel then it tapers down

02:52to 330 millimeters for the center and it goes back to 355 for the front and you see a similar pattern for

03:00the deck so 152 millimeters for the front and rear then tapers down to 127 millimeters for the middle

03:06the barbettes are about 330 to 304 millimeters the turret faces are 330 the roofs 152 and then the

03:17sides and rear 177 the bridge is extremely lightly armored so that's going to be very easy to take

03:23out from enemy high explosive shells the fire control room is below the decks at least and then

03:30the sort of front and rear arm it goes from about 304 to 254 millimeters and luckily the crew is very

03:37much improved over war spite it's 31 miles per hour whereas war spite is about 23.2 miles per hour

03:44so a massive increase in speed there and the crew has now gone to 1,975 from 1,220 so again massive

03:55improvement in survivability from the extra crew and then going back to the fire control room we've

03:59got 12 fire directors and 3 rangefinders so the rangefinders aren't particularly good and they

04:04seem to be centered around the main guns whereas the fire directors are all over the place and

04:10have an accuracy of 93% fire and solution calculation time of 15 seconds and an update time of 8 seconds

04:17and we've got at least three radars so type 277 the 293 and 960 so yeah we've got plenty of fire

04:26directors and rangefinders good amount of radar so you should be able to detect most enemy ships and

04:32get a firing solution pretty quickly and so yeah vanguard seems like it's going to be a very good

04:37addition for the british tech tree it's a shame that we skipped the king georgia v so hopefully we'll

04:42go back and get them at some point in the future but yeah this will struggle a little bit compared to

04:47some of the other nations top tier vessels but it will still do decently well especially against

04:52some of the lower tier battleships so anyway that is hms vanguard hopefully you've enjoyed the video

04:58i've been toreno and i'll see you next time

HMS Vanguard First Impressions - Leviathans Dev Server - War Thunder

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