The DEADLIEST Plane at Altitude MiG 25PD Gameplay War Thunder

Alright, welcome back to another video. Today we're going to be taking a look at the MiG-25PD, which is the, I guess, top reward for the ongoing event. Now this thing here, it's pretty fast. You can go at Mach 3. Of course, you don't really see that speed in-game, but you know, you can actually go really fast. You know, you can basically outspeed anything at like 10,000 meters or 9,000 meters or even less than that. Just, you have to be really careful not to get too low, and if you do, that you get out of there really quickly or else you'll get ganged up on by all the enemy fighters. Now as for loadouts, what I take on this thing is either the two R40 RDs and two R40 TDs. The TDs are really good at taking out targets which aren't really looking at you. They don't really know you're there. They have like 10 kilometer range against, you know, even side aspect targets. So they're really useful against taking out those people. And the RDs are good against, you know, high-altitude targets and sometimes targets at low altitude, although I do have trouble kind of using this radar there because it doesn't have an ACM mode. That's why I also have this top loadout here where I replaced the one R40 RD with two R60s. These can also go after targets which aren't looking at you but don't have the range of the R40. Usually I'm a bit torn which one I take. It's really depending on how I feel like. Late game though, if after I land, I always take this loadout because the R40s are really useful against targets which know you're there and late game they mostly know where you are. As you may have noticed while listening to me, I'm actually a bit sick right now so I can't really talk as much in this video as I usually do. This is also post-commentary because in AR I actually have to pay attention to what I'm doing. I can't really be talking as much. Regardless, right now in this game, this is actually my first game that I've recorded here and I didn't really find anyone at altitude which is why I'm kind of diving down now. Hopefully I'm going to eventually deploy the airbrake. Yeah, there we go. I'm going to go after targets which I think are not going to launch a missile because missiles or launched missiles kind of act as flares and you kind of just have to be careful with who you pick here. That Kefir, he doesn't really have any of my friendlies near him so it's really unlikely that he's going to pop any flares and it's pretty unlikely he's looking upwards so that's why I fire kind of those both those missiles at him and there we go. I do eventually get the two kills. Wonderful. Unfortunately, nothing else happened in this game other than that so that's why I'm probably going to cut this out. I guess maybe I can have this little chase scene here with this J7D. He's going to try and catch up to me which is quite brave of him at this altitude but he's actually catching up. That's the thing. This thing's only really fast at high altitude even at 5,000 meters something or even 6,000 right now I guess and J7D can catch up to you if you're like not careful. What I've done here is kind of just gone in a straight line now because I know that eventually I will be able to outspeed him but just keep in mind that you know other planes are definitely a threat to you below like 7,000 or something like that. All right next game here I've decided to take the R-60s instead of that one R-40TD on the left pilot on the right pilot I mean and there we go we do see someone at high altitude here so we're just going to launch as soon as we get within 12 kilometers. This map is a bit smaller so that's why I couldn't really climb as much as I'd like to and I'm kind of struggling to even keep a lock here which is a bit cringe but you know eventually the missile will actually hit him or no it won't actually no he just completely chaffed it never mind I lied I didn't watch the footage before it looks like it just completely misses that is what it is that's why we do have the two R-40TDs and the R-60Ms. I'm gonna first reset my radar here back down to 30 kilometers and you can see that all the enemies are essentially all behind me now so I might as well just go top down that F-104 looks pretty juicy I'm gonna try to go after him he's going back to base right now probably because he bombed or something but he's definitely not looking upwards so we're just going to you know quickly load up my R-40 here give it a bit of lead fire it away and there's also an A-10 right over here who's launching I think those are Mavericks we're going to try and lock him as well with hindsight it wasn't exactly the smartest decision because he still will keep firing them but there we go we're trying to get rid of that one right there and there's also another one right over here and there we go that one tracked the AGM-65 which is not great for some reason he got the kill for that but you know it is what it is now I don't really know what was under here I think it was an A-10 or something so I'm going to try and go completely above him so that he doesn't just notice me um you know usually that does help do still have the two R-60Ms here so we're just going to load that up fire that away it's an A-10 it's slow as long as it doesn't flare the missile it should hit there we go he's completely clueless and just like that I do get a kill second A-10 here also a bit clueless but I think he's popping flares yeah there we go he's popping flares so not exactly the best idea to go after him so I'm just going to kind of climb over the end of team and eventually pick a target all right there we go so there's actually a very target rich environment now and the problem is I only have one missile so I kind of have to pick one and for the best I'm gonna have to go after this J-37 here mostly because they're pretty dangerous you know they have radar missiles and uh yeah A-10s are not exactly the biggest of threats and they also pop a lot of flares anyway I've used up all my missiles now so I have to just return to base rearm and then fly back all right so I'm going to cut here right to the end where I already know that the enemy or the last enemy remaining is this A-10 here you can see that he is just constantly popping flares so the chance that I get him with an R-40 TD is essentially zero so we're gonna have to go in uh low and slow here with my MTI radar you can see that I'm trying to lock him but he just isn't really appearing because this thing doesn't have an ACM mode it's pretty hard to actually get a lock up people that are right in front of you there we go I'm just firing RD at close range and we do actually get the kill all right now the only reason that worked is because he wasn't maneuvering and uh because he thought he was safe or something if he had even tried to even do a bit of evasive maneuvers before I got a lock on him you know he would have probably been fine because this thing's radar is uh yeah pretty difficult to use especially without ACM mode all right from this game on it's going to be no commentary because uh yeah I'm a lazy bastard happy new year guys um you know has certainly been one hell of a year hopefully 2026 will certainly be a bit uh better in some regards but hey it is what it is uh thank you for watching and I'll see you guys in the next year then bye bye all right well that does it for this video hopefully you guys are doing a bit better than I am uh today but you know what um it is what it is I mean 2025 is over 2026 is on the horizon and yeah I mean looking looking forward to it I guess you know what the game has to offer stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next year then bye