2 years after the addition of the Hungarian air subtree today we finally take a look at Hungarian WW2 Aircraft in War Thunder!
So join me as we take a look at these aircraft, look at their stats and give my first impressions on their inclusion in War Thunder!
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00:00So today on the 9th wave dev server we've got something I've been looking forward to for
00:04quite a long time, about two years in fact, and that is the addition of the Hungarian subtree.
00:11Now you may be a bit confused and thinking wasn't the Hungarian subtree added quite a long time ago
00:15and technically yes we did get a Hungarian subtree about two years ago but these were all basically
00:20copy paste vehicles and were only really for the higher tiers. But now we've got the lower tier
00:26Hungarian subtree and these are all domestically produced and designed Hungarian vehicles and
00:32we'll be starting off with the WM-21 which is basically a Hungarian light bomber and reconnaissance
00:39aircraft from the early war period. Now it's not particularly well armed, it's only got two 8mm
00:45machine guns, the Geberwehr machine guns, and these fire frontally and then you've got another one at
00:51the rear here. And so yeah this can be used as a fighter, unfortunately it doesn't carry much in
00:58the way of a bomb load, you only have these 12 10kg bombs which technically penetrate more the higher
01:04you drop them but that only maxes out of 38mm at 5000m so you're probably not going to be hitting
01:11anything from that range. So really these have to hit dead on their target to actually do anything.
01:16And you can see it's got a top speed of 220 miles per hour, a one second burst mass of
01:210.52kg
01:23and a climb rate of 3.9 meters a second. So we're going to quickly take this out for a
01:28test flight
01:28just to see how it performs. And so here we are, I have just changed the spawn point because we
01:35got
01:35shot down immediately in the last one and here we are doing an aileron roll and here is the rear
01:41machine gunner. So you've got a fair good arc of fire at the rear. Here is the cockpit, you see
01:50the gunner
01:51at the back there, there are all your instruments. You lose speed pretty quickly when in a climb, not too
01:58quickly at the moment, we'll show off the bombs as well. So there we go. You only carry a few
02:08of them
02:08and like I say they are very small bombs so they're not going to do much at all to be
02:12honest.
02:15You can see the machine guns are quite fast firing at least. We can do a loop. There we go.
02:22So yeah,
02:22that is just the WM-21 and yeah, this is perfect for the lower tiers. Not exactly a groundbreaking
02:29aircraft but you know, it's a good start for the Hungarian sub-tree. Go back to the hangar. And yeah,
02:36that is being added at rank one battery rating 1.0. So yeah, that is a perfectly good vehicle for
02:41the start of the Hungarian sub-tree. And the next one is the Heia 1. And this is basically an
02:47Italian
02:48RE-2000 but with a weaker engine. Yeah, the engine is not quite as powerful as that on the Italian
02:55variant or at least it's not supposed to be. I believe this actually looks like it is the same
03:00engine. The RC-40 and the... I've got the RE-2000 Series 1. Yeah, the RC-40. So I don't
03:07know if they've
03:08just not renamed it because... Yeah, the max power is 846 on the Italian aircraft. And on the Hungarian
03:15one it is... Oh yeah, so it is a different engine. It's just got the same name for some reason.
03:22So yeah,
03:22slightly weaker engine and a slightly longer fuselage to make up for that.
03:27And you can see you've got the Italian machine gun. So you've got two breeder machine guns,
03:3212.7 millimeters. And this has been added at rank one battery rating 2.3. Got top speed of 307
03:39miles
03:39per hour and a climb rate of 13 meters a second. So we'll quickly take that out for a very
03:45quick
03:45test drive. But again, this is very similar to the RE-2000. Hasn't got quite as powerful an engine.
03:51So here's the cockpit. There's your instruments. We'll just test out the machine guns.
03:58So, like I say, they're basically standard Italian machine guns. Do an aileron roll.
04:04Do a... loop-de-loop barrel roll.
04:11There we go. So yeah, this is... feels very much like the Italian aircraft. Like I say,
04:17this is only moderately modified really. So it's very similar to that aircraft. So we'll take this
04:24one back because, yeah, like I say, quite similar to the Italian one. But then moving on to the Heia
04:302,
04:30which is the successor. This was more of a design that was built from scratch or at least from the
04:35ground up. It's very similar to the Heia 1 or the Italian aircraft even. But there are some more
04:41substantial changes. So now we've got a more powerful engine. So 804 horsepower. And it has
04:48two 12.7 millimeter Geberware machine guns. So these have a one-second burst mass of 1.12 kilograms.
04:54With the Heia 1, it was 0.78. So yeah, you're putting out more bullets in a shorter amount of
05:01time.
05:01We'll quickly take this one out for a test flight. Unfortunately, there's no unique camouflages
05:05other than the one you've got for these two aircraft, which is a bit of a shame. But I'm
05:10sure they'll get some more at some point in the future. So here we are. And there is the cockpit.
05:17And yeah, the Heia 2 was built within Hungary itself. Hungary did build a fair few aircraft and
05:23other vehicles within its nation, you know, domestically, even if the designs didn't necessarily
05:29come from Hungary. And you can see we're doing quite well with our rate of climb here.
05:35But we're not losing too much speed, I don't think. We can get to 1500 meters. Although I have got
05:40the full power on at the moment, so that's probably not going to be good in the long term.
05:45But yeah, we seem to be retaining speed decently well. Get to 1700. We can do an inverted loop barrel
05:53roll.
05:56Yeah, it seems maneuverable enough. Better than the Heia 1, at least.
06:00We'll take this one back to the hangar. And yeah, so that's been added at 2.3.
06:04And these vehicles all in rank one so far. And the next one is also 2.3, but a rank
06:09two vehicle.
06:10And that is the WM-23, which was a Hungarian prototype aircraft.
06:14And it kind of looks like the German HE-112.
06:18It's got the distinctive wings, the gold-like wings, but maybe not as prominent as on the
06:23German vehicle. And this has a one second burst mass of 1.83 kilograms, because we've now got
06:29two 12.7 millimeter Geberware machine guns and two 8.56 millimeter Geberware machine guns. So yeah,
06:36you've got four machine guns in total. And it's got a top speed of 310 miles per hour and a
06:41rate of
06:42climb of 12.2 meters a second. And as you can see, it's just got a mostly plain camouflage scheme,
06:49and there's nothing else we can add to it at the moment. So we'll just take this one out quickly,
06:53see how this one performs.
06:55Okay, so the cockpit hasn't actually been added yet, so I can't show you that. Hopefully that'll be added
07:00when the update comes out, or in a later iteration of the dev server. Seems to do aileron roles pretty
07:06well. And this aircraft was supposed to go into mass production, but there was some sort of issue
07:11with the prototype, I believe it's vibrations of some such, and it ended up crashing and basically
07:16they just went with the HE-2, which was ready to go into mass production, or causing mass production.
07:23Yeah, you can see we've got the extra machine guns, so that'll probably help a little bit.
07:29Especially against lighter enemies, as you can still use those smaller machine guns to great effect.
07:36Whereas against bombers, you'll want to rely on the heavier machine guns.
07:41And yeah, this seems a hell of a lot more maneuverable than the last vehicles we've been looking at.
07:48This maneuver.
07:52Quickly head back to the hangar.
07:54Yeah, that is technically considered in the same battle rating as the HE-2. I wouldn't be surprised
07:58if that goes up slightly. I don't know, to me it just feels a lot more maneuverable. You've got
08:03better armament. It just feels like that one's going to end up going up a little bit at some
08:07point. And then moving on, we've got two ME-210s. So the ME-210 has only just been added to
08:13War Thunder
08:13for Germany as well, and Japan's also got a premium vehicle variant of the ME-210. And Hungary's got two,
08:20so we've got the ME-210 CA-1 at first. And you can see it's pretty heavily armored. So you've
08:25got two
08:2520mm MG-151 cannons, two 7.92mm MG-17s, and then you've got your two rear 13mm MG-131s. So
08:35you've got
08:35them at the rear here. And this should have the DB-605 engines, I believe, which were a little bit
08:40more powerful than some previous ones, as well as some other minor changes. And this can carry a few
08:46bombs. So you can actually carry a 1000kg armor-piercing bomb. And again, this is one of
08:51those that penetrates more the higher up you drop it. But unless you're going up against a ship,
08:55you're probably not going to be able to hit a tank for much more over than 1000m. You're going to
09:00be
09:00wanting to get really close in, to be honest. So you're not going to be able to take advantage of
09:03that so much, I don't think. And then you've got your 50kg bombs, 500kg, and two 250kg bombs.
09:11Now, unfortunately, I can't take this one out for a test flight, because I haven't actually got that
09:15far in the Italian tech tree, unfortunately. But yeah, this seems like it would be a decent heavy
09:20fighter for the Hungarians and the Italians, to be fair. It's got a top speed of 306 mph,
09:25and a rate of climb of 7m a second. It's been added at rank 3, battle rating 3.0. I
09:31don't think
09:31Italy really has any twin engine heavy fighters around that rating. You've got the SM-91 at 3.7,
09:38and the 92 at 4.0, but I don't think we've got any other ones below that. So, you know,
09:43it's a nice little addition for the Italians as well. And then lastly, we've got the ME210CA1-39M.
09:50And this is a very interesting one, because you do lose some of the machine guns,
09:54but instead you gain a 40mm Bofors gun, because Hungary did actually make the Bofors
10:00during World War II within Hungary itself. They had a license for it. And this is quite a powerful
10:06weapon because it does carry explosive shells for against bombers, which might be useful.
10:11But of course, you've got the armor-piercing tracer shell with 76mm penetration at 100 meters. So,
10:17this is going to be a very good weapon against enemy tanks. And this is going to be, yeah,
10:22just an excellent ground pounder, I think. And you've still got your 20mm guns for against enemy
10:28aircraft and your rear 13mm machine guns. And it can also carry four 50kg bombs, and also these rockets,
10:36which were kind of intended for against enemy bombers, which I don't think it's going to be
10:40much of a target for you to engage in-game. But it's also not going to be very good against
10:44enemy
10:45ground forces, because it only penetrates a maximum of 26.5mm. And I don't think it's going to be the
10:52easiest weapon to hit targets with. But again, it is a welcome addition. And this has a top speed of
10:58330
10:58miles per hour and a rate of climb of 6.9 meters a second. So, slightly worse than the previous
11:05ME-210.
11:06But again, I think this would be an excellent ground pounder for the Italians and the Hungarians alike.
11:11Again, at that sort of battle rating, you've got to rely on the four-engine P-108, maybe some of
11:18the three-engine
11:18bombers, which also aren't really able to engage enemy fighters as well as the ME-210s. I think the closest
11:26equivalent is the SM-91, but that relies entirely on bombs for the most part. And also, you can see
11:32that it's technically labeled as the ME-410, which is kind of interesting, but no, it is the ME-210.
11:37And so, yeah, that is the Hungarian subtree. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to this last one
11:43with the Bofors gun. I'm looking forward to the WM-23. I think that's going to be an excellent vehicle.
11:49And the WM-21 will be pretty good as well. The Hayat 1 and 2 are good vehicles, but I
11:54don't think they're
11:54going to be as popular for me, at least. They seem quite similar to the Italian vehicles,
11:58which we've already got. So yeah, definitely looking forward to some of those more exotic
12:02prototypes and such. Oh, sorry. I say prototypes. There is only the one prototype, the WM-23, which,
12:08um, yeah. So Hungary managed to get a full subtree with purpose-built, mass-produced, uh, Hungarian
12:15vehicles, even if some of them are based on foreign designs, but they were all modified by the
12:19Hungarian. So yeah, I'm glad that this has finally been added. It's kind of annoying that it's taken
12:24Gaijin two years to get around to adding these vehicles when, uh, yeah, they really should have
12:29just delayed the Hungarian subtree until some of these were ready, even if not all of them,
12:33even if just some of them were ready, just so we had a Hungarian subtree that wasn't made entirely of
12:40Russian vehicles. So yeah, this is definitely something I want to unlock at some point. I need to
12:45get down the Italian tech tree as it is anyway. So this will give me a bit more motivation and,
12:49um,
12:50yeah, very glad to see that the Hungarian subtree has finally been implemented in War Thunder.
12:55Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed this look at Hungarian aircraft. I have also done
12:59videos looking at Hungarian World War II tanks that need adding to War Thunder. I would recommend
13:03you watch that as well. And I hope you will join me for other videos on the Ninth Wave dev
13:08server.
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