Shackleton MR.Mk.2 - Revision history

U39851915: Fixed a typo (adaquate) and broke up sentences in the intro to improve flow. Some wording changes were also made to the intro to avoid a repetition.

2023-11-10T22:20:21Z

Fixed a typo (adaquate) and broke up sentences in the intro to improve flow. Some wording changes were also made to the intro to avoid a repetition.

U44982996: updating the ammo section since they updated the Shackleton's ammo belt

2023-10-06T19:17:45Z

updating the ammo section since they updated the Shackleton's ammo belt

U44982996 at 13:07, 31 July 2023

2023-07-31T13:07:08Z

U44982996 at 12:01, 30 July 2023

2023-07-30T12:01:36Z

U38088265: Edits

2023-07-30T08:43:25Z

Edits

U44982996 at 15:45, 29 July 2023

2023-07-29T15:45:34Z

U44982996 at 15:39, 29 July 2023

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U44982996 at 15:39, 29 July 2023

2023-07-29T15:39:24Z

U44982996 at 15:30, 29 July 2023

2023-07-29T15:30:46Z

U44629479: Edits

2022-12-02T10:46:11Z

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 == Description ==
 <!-- ''In the description, the first part should be about the history of and the creation and combat usage of the aircraft, as well as its key features. In the second part, tell the reader about the aircraft in the game. Insert a screenshot of the vehicle, so that if the novice player does not remember the vehicle by name, he will immediately understand what kind of vehicle the article is talking about.'' -->
-The '''Avro Shackleton''' is the final military version of the venerated [[Lancaster (Family)|Lancaster series of bombers]]. Developed in 1945 from the now-obsolete [[Lincoln B Mk II|Avro Lincoln]] as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and maritime patrol aircraft, the Shackleton featured more specialized armaments, such as a naval radar housed inside a distinctive "bulge" on the belly of the aircraft, removing the tail gunner position in favour of a flexible mount 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons to strafe naval targets, and more efficient Rolls-Royce Griffon engines powering contra-rotating propellers.
+The '''Avro Shackleton''' is the final military version of the venerated [[Lancaster (Family)|Lancaster series of bombers]]. Developed in 1945 from the now-obsolete [[Lincoln B Mk II|Avro Lincoln]] as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and maritime patrol aircraft, the Shackleton featured more specialized armaments, such as a naval radar housed inside a distinctive "bulge" on the belly of the aircraft. The tail gunner position is removed in favour of a flexible mount with 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons to strafe naval targets. The plane also features more efficient Rolls-Royce Griffon engines powering contra-rotating propellers.
-Introduced in [[Update "Direct Hit"]], the {{Specs|name}} can be best described as a "quirky" version of the [[Lincoln B Mk II]], with overall better mobility and payload, but worse defensive coverage and survivability. The plane has access to some of the most efficient payload available, being capable of taking out 3 bases with the top payload. Due to the powerful Griffon engines, the Shackleton can be played either as a traditional long range bomber by using its decent climb rate or as a fast bomber using its high WEP power.
+Introduced in [[Update "Direct Hit"]], the {{Specs|name}} can be best described as a "quirky" version of the [[Lincoln B Mk II]], with overall better mobility and payload, but worse defensive coverage and survivability. The plane has access to some of the most efficient payloads available, being capable of taking out 3 bases with its maximum bomb loadout. Due to its powerful Griffon engines, the Shackleton can be played either as a traditional long range bomber by using its decent climb rate or as a fast bomber using its high WEP power.
 == General info ==
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 The 15 x 1,000 lb M.C. Mk.I loadout is ideal to destroy bases and airfields. Only 5 bombs are required to destroy normal bases and 3 to destroy weaker bases. A squad of 3 Shackletons is capable of destroying all bases and the airfield without landing on some maps. Given that most Air RB maps at its BR consist of respawning bases with a prevalence of attackers, you will rarely be able to drop all 15 bombs on bases without having to wait for at least 1 to respawn.
-Due to the Shackleton's ASW roles, the plane has the peculiar choice of equipping eight RP-3 rockets on the wingtips. Due to the large wingspan and the size of the plane, the rockets are woefully inaccurate and are best not to equip it.
+Due to the Shackleton's ASW roles, the plane has the peculiar choice of equipping eight RP-3 rockets on the wingtips. Due to the large wingspan and the size of the plane, the rockets are woefully inaccurate; it is best to not to equip them.
 === Defensive armament ===
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 This leaves the dorsal twin turrets as the Shackleton's only "real" defensive armament. While the guns are quite accurate and hard-hitting, it only covers the upper part of the plane with blind spots at the rudder and directly behind the tail, thus forcing the pilot to pull the plane's nose up to get the guns on target. The turret can also be easily evaded by simply attacking from below, thus leaving the Shackleton with no way to fight back.
-The few belt options for Shackleton's Hispano are adaquate. While the stock belt is a hit-or-miss due to only 50% of the belt is composed of a hard-hitting HEI rounds, the other two belt options - the "Armoured targets" and "Universal" belts - consisted of the aforementioned HEI rounds and a high-penetrating AP-T rounds, with both belts switch the 2/3 composition of both rounds around. Both belts has their own speciality; the "Armoured targets" can easily wreck the opponent's engines or knock the enemy pilot out with a well-aimed hits, while the "Universal" belts is better at dealing structural and module damage to enemy planes.
+The few belt options for Shackleton's Hispano are adequate. While the stock belt is a hit-or-miss due to only 50% of the belt is composed of a hard-hitting HEI rounds, the other two belt options - the "Armoured targets" and "Universal" belts - consisted of the aforementioned HEI rounds and a high-penetrating AP-T rounds, with both belts switch the 2/3 composition of both rounds around. Both belts has their own speciality; the "Armoured targets" can easily wreck the opponent's engines or knock the enemy pilot out with a well-aimed hits, while the "Universal" belts is better at dealing structural and module damage to enemy planes.
 == Usage in battles ==
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 ;Skins
 * [https://live.warthunder.com/feed/camouflages/?vehicle=shackleton_mr_mk_2 Skins and camouflages for the {{PAGENAME}} from live.warthunder.com.]
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 * ''reference to the series of the aircraft;''
 * ''links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.'' -->
 * [[Lincoln B Mk II]]
 * [[Lancaster (Family)]]

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 This leaves the dorsal twin turrets as the Shackleton's only "real" defensive armament. While the guns are quite accurate and hard-hitting, it only covers the upper part of the plane with blind spots at the rudder and directly behind the tail, thus forcing the pilot to pull the plane's nose up to get the guns on target. The turret can also be easily evaded by simply attacking from below, thus leaving the Shackleton with no way to fight back.
-To add insult to injury, the Shackleton's belt options for the Hispano autocannons are also quite poor. The stock belt is the only belt with tracer rounds, with only half of the belt composed of a useful HEI ammunition, while the other half is taken by tracers and useless practice rounds. On the other hand, the upgraded belts offer high-penetrating AP rounds and more HE rounds, but lack tracer rounds entirely. This leaves the Shackleton with the tough choice of either an easier-to-aim belt with only half the chance of dealing damage, or highly destructive belt that can be very difficult to target at an enemy.
+The few belt options for Shackleton's Hispano are adaquate. While the stock belt is a hit-or-miss due to only 50% of the belt is composed of a hard-hitting HEI rounds, the other two belt options - the "Armoured targets" and "Universal" belts - consisted of the aforementioned HEI rounds and a high-penetrating AP-T rounds, with both belts switch the 2/3 composition of both rounds around. Both belts has their own speciality; the "Armoured targets" can easily wreck the opponent's engines or knock the enemy pilot out with a well-aimed hits, while the "Universal" belts is better at dealing structural and module damage to enemy planes.
 == Usage in battles ==
 <!-- ''Describe the tactics of playing in the aircraft, the features of using aircraft in a team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view, but instead, give the reader food for thought. Examine the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).'' -->
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 * Low durability; its large tail and wings in particular are very vulnerable to autocannons
 * Regularly faces enemy interceptors and fighters with high climb rate and powerful armament, including early jets in an unlucky matchup
 == History ==

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 * 2 x 20 mm Hispano Mk.V cannons, dorsal turret (350 rpg = 700 total)
-The Shackleton has four 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons, mounted in a pair of flexible mounts at the nose and a twin mount on ventral position, as its defensive armaments. Compared to the Lincoln, the Shackleton's armament layout can be considered a downgrade due to the removal of tail turret, thus making it defenceless against any enemies coming from below.
+The Shackleton has four 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons, mounted in a pair of flexible mounts at the nose and a twin mount on dorsal position, as its defensive armaments. Compared to the Lincoln, the Shackleton's armament layout can be considered a downgrade due to the removal of tail turret, thus making it defenceless against any enemies coming from below.
 While the flexible nose guns were intended to be used to strafe at surface targets, it has very little use in-game due to it is treated as a defensive turret and are thus very hard to aim at ground targets. The gun also has limited horizontal traverse and are thus not useful against anything but slow-flying AI-controlled planes in which the guns can be directed at them to shoot them down.
-This leaves the ventral twin turrets as the Shackleton's only "real" defensive armament. While the guns are quite accurate and hard-hitting, it only covers the upper part of the plane with blind spots at the rudder and directly behind the tail, thus forcing the pilot to pull the plane's nose up to get the guns on target. The turret can also be easily evaded by simply attacking from below, thus leaving the Shackleton with no way to fight back.
+This leaves the dorsal twin turrets as the Shackleton's only "real" defensive armament. While the guns are quite accurate and hard-hitting, it only covers the upper part of the plane with blind spots at the rudder and directly behind the tail, thus forcing the pilot to pull the plane's nose up to get the guns on target. The turret can also be easily evaded by simply attacking from below, thus leaving the Shackleton with no way to fight back.
 To add insult to injury, the Shackleton's belt options for the Hispano autocannons are also quite poor. The stock belt is the only belt with tracer rounds, with only half of the belt composed of a useful HEI ammunition, while the other half is taken by tracers and useless practice rounds. On the other hand, the upgraded belts offer high-penetrating AP rounds and more HE rounds, but lack tracer rounds entirely. This leaves the Shackleton with the tough choice of either an easier-to-aim belt with only half the chance of dealing damage, or highly destructive belt that can be very difficult to target at an enemy.
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 Because of the powerful Griffon engines, the Shackleton can climb at a much better rate than the Lincoln. This allows the plane to stay out of most of the enemy fighters, though you would has a chance of facing an enemy interceptor who will usually engages from below i.e. where the Shackleton is the weakest. Thus, the best defense for the plane is to avoid any engagements all together using the plane's good thrust power to maintain altitude and energy advantage to speed away from pursuing enemy fighters.
-Meanwhile, the Shackleton can also be employed in a high risk, high rewards fast bombing role, diving towards enemy bases. This tactics allows the Shackleton to quickly reach the base before most enemies arrive and dispatch multiple bases using good handling to adjust the bomb aiming. While this may put the Shackleton into a dangerous swarm of enemy fighters, this will also allow the plane to actually fight back as most enemies will usually engage from higher altitude where the Shackleton's ventral turret can engage. In addition, in larger maps, the enemy fighters will take a longer time to reach their base to intercept, thus leaving the base an easy target for you to take before retreating.
+Meanwhile, the Shackleton can also be employed in a high risk, high rewards fast bombing role, diving towards enemy bases. This tactics allows the Shackleton to quickly reach the base before most enemies arrive and dispatch multiple bases using good handling to adjust the bomb aiming. While this may put the Shackleton into a dangerous swarm of enemy fighters, this will also allow the plane to actually fight back as most enemies will usually engage from higher altitude where the Shackleton's dorsal turret can engage. In addition, in larger maps, the enemy fighters will take a longer time to reach their base to intercept, thus leaving the base an easy target for you to take before retreating.
 === Manual Engine Control ===

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 The Shackleton has four 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons, mounted in a pair of flexible mounts at the nose and a twin mount on ventral position, as its defensive armaments. Compared to the Lincoln, the Shackleton's armament layout can be considered a downgrade due to the removal of tail turret, thus making it defenceless against any enemies coming from below.
-While the flexible nose guns were intended to be used to strafe at surface targets, it has very little use in-game due to it is treated as a defensive turret and are thus very hard to aim at ground targets. The gun also has limited horizontal traverse and are thus not useful against slow-flying AI-controlled planes in which the guns can be directed at them to shoot them down.
+While the flexible nose guns were intended to be used to strafe at surface targets, it has very little use in-game due to it is treated as a defensive turret and are thus very hard to aim at ground targets. The gun also has limited horizontal traverse and are thus not useful against anything but slow-flying AI-controlled planes in which the guns can be directed at them to shoot them down.
 This leaves the ventral twin turrets as the Shackleton's only "real" defensive armament. While the guns are quite accurate and hard-hitting, it only covers the upper part of the plane with blind spots at the rudder and directly behind the tail, thus forcing the pilot to pull the plane's nose up to get the guns on target. The turret can also be easily evaded by simply attacking from below, thus leaving the Shackleton with no way to fight back.

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 == Description ==
 <!-- ''In the description, the first part should be about the history of and the creation and combat usage of the aircraft, as well as its key features. In the second part, tell the reader about the aircraft in the game. Insert a screenshot of the vehicle, so that if the novice player does not remember the vehicle by name, he will immediately understand what kind of vehicle the article is talking about.'' -->
-The '''Avro Shackleton''' is the final military version of the venerated [[Lancaster (Family)|Lancaster series of bombers]]. Developed in 1945 from the now-obsolete [[Lincoln B Mk II|Avro Lincoln]] as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and maritime patrol aircraft, the Shackleton features more specialized armaments, such as a naval radar housed inside a distinctive "bulge" on the belly of the aircraft (which currently serve no purposes in-game), removing the tail gunner position in favor of a flexible mount 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons to strafe naval targets, and a more efficient Rolls-Royce Griffin engines powering contra-rotating propellers.
+Introduced in [[Update "Direct Hit"]], the {{Specs|name}} can be best described as a "quirky" version of the [[Lincoln B Mk II]], with overall better mobility and payload, but worse defensive coverage and survivability. The plane has access to some of the most efficient payload available, being capable of taking out 3 bases with the top payload. Due to the powerful Griffon engines, the Shackleton can be played either as a traditional long range bomber by using its decent climb rate or as a fast bomber using its high WEP power.
 == General info ==
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 <!-- ''Describe how the aircraft behaves in the air. Speed, manoeuvrability, acceleration and allowable loads - these are the most important characteristics of the vehicle.'' -->
-As with the previous Lancaster family of bombers, the Shackleton has overall good flight performance. The plane is powered by four Rolls-Royce Griffon engines turning contra-rotating propellers, giving the Shackleton a very good thrust and acceleration for its weight, especially with WEP. The plane can also manoever quite well for its size, allowing the pilots to quickly turn the plane around to escape from the enemy, or to adjust the bomb sight for bombing targets.
+As with the previous Lancaster family of bombers, the Shackleton has overall good flight performance. The plane is powered by four Rolls-Royce Griffon engines turning contra-rotating propellers, giving the Shackleton a very good thrust and acceleration for its weight, especially with WEP. The plane can also manoeuvre quite well for its size, allowing the pilots to quickly turn the plane around to escape from the enemy, or to adjust the bomb sight for bombing targets.
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 <!-- ''Examine the survivability of the aircraft. Note how vulnerable the structure is and how secure the pilot is, whether the fuel tanks are armoured, etc. Describe the armour, if there is any, and also mention the vulnerability of other critical aircraft systems.'' -->
-The Shackleton has large wings where the fuel tank are located. There are two pilots and eight gunners in total, but only two use turrets, the top gunner and the nose gunner, if the top gunner is taken out the Shackleton becomes much easier to kill. There is only one steel armour plate of 8 mm covering the roof turret gunner. The overall structual stength of the Shackleton were mixed; the plane can endure some fire damage and can put them out using combinations of self-sealing fuel tanks and EFS, yet were incapable of taking many hits from autocannons, especially at the tail and wings.
+The Shackleton has large wings where the fuel tank are located. There are two pilots and eight gunners in total, but only two use turrets, the top gunner and the nose gunner. If the top gunner is taken out, the Shackleton becomes much easier to kill. There is only one steel armour plate of 8 mm covering the roof turret gunner. The overall structural strength of the Shackleton were mixed; the plane can endure some fire damage and can put them out using combinations of self-sealing fuel tanks and EFS, yet were incapable of taking many hits from autocannons, especially at the tail and wings.
 === Modifications and economy ===
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 While stock, the Shackleton has poor payload of 18 x 250 lb bombs, which is not enough destroy a single normal base and only sufficient to take one small base in frontline mode.
-However, the Shackleton can unlock the 25 x 500 lb payload at rank 2 modification, which actually outclassed the 14 x 1,000 lbs payload found on the Lancaster and Lincoln, due to the doubled explosive mass compared to the similar bomb from its predecessor, while being significantly lighter payload. 10 of these bombs can take out large base and 5 for small base, which means it can take out at least two and a half bases. The bomb's quantity and sizable explosive mass also makes it ideal for carpet bombings.
+However, the Shackleton can unlock the 25 x 500 lb payload as a tier 2 modification, which actually outclasses the 14 x 1,000 lbs payload found on the Lancaster and Lincoln, due to double the explosive mass compared to the similar bomb of its predecessor, while being a significantly lighter payload. 10 of these bombs can take out a large base and 5 for small bases, which means it can take out at least two and a half bases. The bomb's quantity and sizeable explosive mass also makes it ideal for carpet bombings.
 The 15 x 1,000 lb M.C. Mk.I loadout is ideal to destroy bases and airfields. Only 5 bombs are required to destroy normal bases and 3 to destroy weaker bases. A squad of 3 Shackletons is capable of destroying all bases and the airfield without landing on some maps. Given that most Air RB maps at its BR consist of respawning bases with a prevalence of attackers, you will rarely be able to drop all 15 bombs on bases without having to wait for at least 1 to respawn.
-Due to the Shackleton's ASW roles, the plane has a peculiar choice of equipping eight RP-3 rockets on the wingtips. Due to the large wingspan and the size of the plane, the rockets are woefully inaccurate and are best not to equip it.
+Due to the Shackleton's ASW roles, the plane has the peculiar choice of equipping eight RP-3 rockets on the wingtips. Due to the large wingspan and the size of the plane, the rockets are woefully inaccurate and are best not to equip it.
 === Defensive armament ===
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 * 2 x 20 mm Hispano Mk.V cannons, dorsal turret (350 rpg = 700 total)
-The Shackleton has four 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons, mounted in a pair of flexible mounts at the nose and a twin mount on ventral position as its defensive armaments. Compared to the Lincoln, the Shackleton's armament layout can be considered a downgrade due to the removal of tail turret, thus making it defenceless against any enemies coming from below.
+The Shackleton has four 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons, mounted in a pair of flexible mounts at the nose and a twin mount on ventral position, as its defensive armaments. Compared to the Lincoln, the Shackleton's armament layout can be considered a downgrade due to the removal of tail turret, thus making it defenceless against any enemies coming from below.
 While the flexible nose guns were intended to be used to strafe at surface targets, it has very little use in-game due to it is treated as a defensive turret and are thus very hard to aim at ground targets. The gun also has limited horizontal traverse and are thus not useful against slow-flying AI-controlled planes in which the guns can be directed at them to shoot them down.
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 This leaves the ventral twin turrets as the Shackleton's only "real" defensive armament. While the guns are quite accurate and hard-hitting, it only covers the upper part of the plane with blind spots at the rudder and directly behind the tail, thus forcing the pilot to pull the plane's nose up to get the guns on target. The turret can also be easily evaded by simply attacking from below, thus leaving the Shackleton with no way to fight back.
-To add insult to the injury, the Shackleton's belt option for the Hispano autocannons were also quite poor. The stock belt is the only belt with tracer rounds, with only half of the belt is composed of a useful HEI ammunition, while other half were taken by tracer and useless pratice rounds. On the other hand, the upgraded belts offers high-penetrating AP rounds and more HE rounds, but lacks tracer rounds entirely. This leave the Shackleton with tough choice of either an easier-to-aim belt with only half the chance of dealing damage, or highly destructive belt that is very difficult to target at an enemy.
+To add insult to injury, the Shackleton's belt options for the Hispano autocannons are also quite poor. The stock belt is the only belt with tracer rounds, with only half of the belt composed of a useful HEI ammunition, while the other half is taken by tracers and useless practice rounds. On the other hand, the upgraded belts offer high-penetrating AP rounds and more HE rounds, but lack tracer rounds entirely. This leaves the Shackleton with the tough choice of either an easier-to-aim belt with only half the chance of dealing damage, or highly destructive belt that can be very difficult to target at an enemy.
 == Usage in battles ==
 <!-- ''Describe the tactics of playing in the aircraft, the features of using aircraft in a team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view, but instead, give the reader food for thought. Examine the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).'' -->
-The Shackleton offers a much-needed payload and mobility improvement over its predecessor, the [[Lincoln B Mk II]], at a cost of worse defensive armaments.
+The Shackleton offers a much-needed payload and mobility improvement over its predecessor, the [[Lincoln B Mk II]], at the cost of worse defensive armaments.
-Because of the powerful Griffon engines, the Shackleton can climb at a much better rate than the Lincoln. This allows the plane to stay out of most of the enemy fighters, though you would has a chance of facing an enemy interceptor who will usually engages from below i.e. where the Shackleton is at the weakest. Thus, the best defense for the plane is to avoid any engagements all together using the plane's good thrust power to maintain altitude and energy advantage to speed away from pursuing enemy fighters.
+Because of the powerful Griffon engines, the Shackleton can climb at a much better rate than the Lincoln. This allows the plane to stay out of most of the enemy fighters, though you would has a chance of facing an enemy interceptor who will usually engages from below i.e. where the Shackleton is the weakest. Thus, the best defense for the plane is to avoid any engagements all together using the plane's good thrust power to maintain altitude and energy advantage to speed away from pursuing enemy fighters.
-Meanwhile, the Shackleton can be employed in a high risk, high rewards fast bombing role. This tactics allows the Shackleton to quickly reaches the base before most enemy arrives and dispatch multiple base using good handling to adjust the bomb aiming. While this may put the Shackleton in a dangerous swarm of enemy fighters, this will also allows the plane to actually fight back as most enemies would usually engage at the higher altitudes where the Shackleton's ventral turret can engage. In addition, in a larger maps, the enemy fighters would took a longer time to reach their base to intercept, thus leaving the base an easy target for you to take before retreating.
+Meanwhile, the Shackleton can also be employed in a high risk, high rewards fast bombing role, diving towards enemy bases. This tactics allows the Shackleton to quickly reach the base before most enemies arrive and dispatch multiple bases using good handling to adjust the bomb aiming. While this may put the Shackleton into a dangerous swarm of enemy fighters, this will also allow the plane to actually fight back as most enemies will usually engage from higher altitude where the Shackleton's ventral turret can engage. In addition, in larger maps, the enemy fighters will take a longer time to reach their base to intercept, thus leaving the base an easy target for you to take before retreating.
 === Manual Engine Control ===

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 * Very poor defensive coverage; lacks defensive armament for the belly and tail, and the frontal turret has limited horizontal traverse
 * Low durability; its large tail and wings in particular are very vulnerable to autocannons
-* Regularly faces enemy interceptors and fighters with high climb rate and powerful armament, may also faces early jets in an unlucky matchup
+* Regularly faces enemy interceptors and fighters with high climb rate and powerful armament, including early jets in an unlucky matchup
 * 20 mm has no tracer rounds for the more powerful belts, making it difficult to aim
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 * ''links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.'' -->
 * [[Lincoln B Mk II]]
-* [[Lancaster (family)]]
+* [[Lancaster (Family)]]
 == External links ==

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 == Description ==
 <!-- ''In the description, the first part should be about the history of and the creation and combat usage of the aircraft, as well as its key features. In the second part, tell the reader about the aircraft in the game. Insert a screenshot of the vehicle, so that if the novice player does not remember the vehicle by name, he will immediately understand what kind of vehicle the article is talking about.'' -->
-The '''{{Specs|name}}''' is a rank {{Specs|rank}} British bomber {{Battle-rating}}. It was introduced in [[Update "Direct Hit"]].
 == General info ==
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 <!-- ''Describe how the aircraft behaves in the air. Speed, manoeuvrability, acceleration and allowable loads - these are the most important characteristics of the vehicle.'' -->
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 {{Specs-Avia-Armour}}
 <!-- ''Examine the survivability of the aircraft. Note how vulnerable the structure is and how secure the pilot is, whether the fuel tanks are armoured, etc. Describe the armour, if there is any, and also mention the vulnerability of other critical aircraft systems.'' -->
-The Shackleton MR.Mk.2 has large wings where the fuel tank are located. There are two pilots and eight gunners in total, but only two use turrets, the top gunner and the nose gunner, if the top gunner is taken out the Shackleton becomes much easier to kill. There is only one steel armour plate of 8 mm covering the roof turret gunner.
 === Modifications and economy ===
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 * 8 x RP-3 rockets + 15 x 1,000 lb M.C. Mk.I bombs (15,000 lb total)
-The 15 x 1,000 lb M.C. Mk.I loadout is ideal to destroy bases and airfields. Only 5 bombs are required to destroy normal bases and 3 to destroy weaker bases. A squad of 3 Shackletons is capable of destroying all bases and the airfield without landing on some maps. Given that most Air RB maps at its BR consist of respawning bases with a prevalence of attackers, you will rarely be able to drop all 15 bombs on bases without having to wait for at least 1 to respawn
+While stock, the Shackleton has poor payload of 18 x 250 lb bombs, which is not enough destroy a single normal base and only sufficient to take one small base in frontline mode.
 === Defensive armament ===
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 * 2 x 20 mm Hispano Mk.V cannons, dorsal turret (350 rpg = 700 total)
-The 20 mm cannons are mounted at the front and on top of the plane leaving directly behind and below very vulnerable.
+The Shackleton has four 20 mm Hispano Mk.V autocannons, mounted in a pair of flexible mounts at the nose and a twin mount on ventral position as its defensive armaments. Compared to the Lincoln, the Shackleton's armament layout can be considered a downgrade due to the removal of tail turret, thus making it defenceless against any enemies coming from below.
 == Usage in battles ==
 <!-- ''Describe the tactics of playing in the aircraft, the features of using aircraft in a team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view, but instead, give the reader food for thought. Examine the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).'' -->
-''Describe the tactics of playing in the aircraft, the features of using aircraft in a team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view, but instead, give the reader food for thought. Examine the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).''
+The Shackleton offers a much-needed payload and mobility improvement over its predecessor, the [[Lincoln B Mk II]], at a cost of worse defensive armaments.
 === Manual Engine Control ===
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 * Decent climb rate for a heavy bomber
-* Notably powerful WEP
+* Generally good flight performances, with powerful WEP helping the plane to maintain its speed
 * Self-sealing fuel tanks and overall structural integrity make it resilient to fires
-* Heavy bomb load and access to RP-3 rockets
+* Very heavy bomb load, with more efficient bomb options
-* 20 mm defensive cannons are strong and will destroy most pursuing aircraft
+* 20 mm defensive cannons are accurate and will destroy most pursuing aircraft
 '''Cons:'''
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 * The bomber risks ripping wings when turning at high speeds (~500 km/h)
 * No armour, prone to pilot sniping
-* Lacks defensive armament for the belly and tail
+* Very poor defensive coverage; lacks defensive armament for the belly and tail, and the frontal turret has limited horizontal traverse
-* Faces enemy interceptors and fighters with high climb rate and powerful armament
+* Low durability; its large tail and wings in particular are very vulnerable to autocannons
 == History ==

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 == Media ==
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 == See also ==