Typhoon Mk Ia - Revision history

U12017485: Updated few pieces of the article for the current state

2024-11-06T22:16:08Z

Updated few pieces of the article for the current state

U178117757: /* Flight performance */ AB and RB stock performance

2024-09-01T02:38:00Z

‎Flight performance: AB and RB stock performance

U38088265: /* Offensive armament */ Updated

2023-09-21T13:00:24Z

‎Offensive armament: Updated

U38088265: /* In-game description */ Reformatted

2022-10-19T22:50:49Z

‎In-game description: Reformatted

U44629479: Removed redundant points

2022-10-08T18:45:25Z

Removed redundant points

U81533430: added some new pros and cons regarding weapons and speed.

2022-10-08T16:02:58Z

added some new pros and cons regarding weapons and speed.

U44629479: Edits

2022-08-16T21:20:52Z

Edits

U44629479: Corrected About template

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Corrected About template

U98661543: /* Pros and cons */

2021-03-10T03:36:40Z

‎Pros and cons

U13682523: /* Details */ Corrected flap rip speed

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‎Details: Corrected flap rip speed

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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.'' -->
-The Typhoon Mk Ia is a great fighter for the rank it is at. The first thing that a pilot will notice with the Typhoon Mk Ia is that it is insanely fast for its battle rating, so diving at a five to ten-degree angle, if the Typhoon is being attacked or if its attack failed, is a solid choice if the plane has the altitude. However, if playing in Arcade battles with this plane, the diving tactic may not work since the Arcade battle maps are quite small.
+The Typhoon Mk Ia is a great fighter for the rank it is at. The first thing that a pilot will notice with the Typhoon Mk Ia is that it is quite fast for its battle rating, so diving at a five to ten-degree angle, if the Typhoon is being attacked or if its attack failed, is a solid choice if the plane has the altitude. However, if playing in Arcade battles with this plane, the diving tactic may not be as effective
-Despite its thick wings, the Typhoon is surprisingly good at turning. It can reliably out-turn Fw 190s and other boom and zoom oriented fighters.
+Despite its thick wings, the Typhoon is surprisingly good at turning. It can reliably out-turn Bf 190s and other boom and zoom oriented fighters, while itself maintaining a good climb rate.
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 * 12 x 7.7 mm Browning machine guns, wing-mounted (460 rpg outer x 2 + 500 rpg center x 2 + 460 rpg inner x 2 = 5,680 total)
-The {{PAGENAME}} 's signature 12 x 0.303 calibre machine guns means quite a lot of gun for a plane, though the drawback to the gun amount is that they are all rifle-calibre and such the Typhoon's firepower is drawn from the mass amount of bullets that can be laid out. The large amounts of bullet fired works as with the right belt, the Typhoon has a large chance to set fires with the high amount of incendiary in the machine gun belts; for this reason, it is plausible to switch to tracer, as 100% of the tracer belt contains incendiary. Be warned: the tracer rounds are much less powerful than the regular ones, so keep that in mind.
+The {{PAGENAME}}’s signature 12 x 0.303 calibre machine guns provide a considerable number of guns for an aircraft, though each gun on its own is ''very'' weak. Consequently, the Typhoon's firepower relies on the sheer volume of bullets it can put on target, ideally aiming to snipe the pilot rather than inflicting significant damage to the airframe. The large volume of bullets fired means that, with the right ammunition belt, the Typhoon has a reasonable chance of causing fires due to the high incendiary content in the machine gun belts. This can be achieved using the tracer belt, as 100% of the tracer rounds are incendiary, though this comes at the expense of overall damage. For typical combat scenarios, Stealth and Universal belts are superior.
 === Suspended armament ===
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 * Great speed, especially in a dive
-* Equipped with 12 x machine guns
+* Capable engine with a good rate of climb for the BR
-* At close distance (< 500 m), armament can be surprisingly effective
+* Equipped with 12 x machine guns, at close distance (< 500 m) they can be surprisingly effective
 * Can carry bombs
 '''Cons:'''
 * Slow roll rate
-* 7 mm machine guns will not do much against anything with armour, and have difficulty destroying targets beyond 500 m in RB
+* 7 mm machine guns will not do much against anything with armour, and have difficulty destroying targets beyond 500 m
 * Mediocre turn radius in RB

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+| 612 || 597 || rowspan="2" | {{Specs|ceiling}} || 21.9 || 22.6 || 14.5 || 14.5 || rowspan="2" | 580
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 ;Related development
 * [[Typhoon (Family)]]
 == External links ==
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 The '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is armed with:
-* 12 x 7.7 mm Browning machine guns, wing-mounted (500 rpg outer x2 + 460 rpg center x2 + 500 rpg inner x2 = 5,840 total)
+* 12 x 7.7 mm Browning machine guns, wing-mounted (460 rpg outer x 2 + 500 rpg center x 2 + 460 rpg inner x 2 = 5,680 total)
 The {{PAGENAME}} 's signature 12 x 0.303 calibre machine guns means quite a lot of gun for a plane, though the drawback to the gun amount is that they are all rifle-calibre and such the Typhoon's firepower is drawn from the mass amount of bullets that can be laid out. The large amounts of bullet fired works as with the right belt, the Typhoon has a large chance to set fires with the high amount of incendiary in the machine gun belts; for this reason, it is plausible to switch to tracer, as 100% of the tracer belt contains incendiary. Be warned: the tracer rounds are much less powerful than the regular ones, so keep that in mind.

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-=== In-game description ===
+{{break}}
 The Hawker Typhoon was a single-seat, all-metal monoplane fighter, first designed as a high speed interceptor.
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 The early service life of the Typhoon was less than impressive. With a relatively poor rate of climb and sluggish performance at high altitudes, it was not able to maintain pace with the latest enemy fighters in its planned role as an interceptor. Furthermore, the first RAF squadrons to use the Typhoon found, like the test pilots who had helped to develop the Typhoon, that an alarming number of accidents, sometimes fatal, were attributed to the new fighter. Hawker was able to ascertain that the cause of many accidents was metal fatigue resulting in several cases of the entire tail section detaching in flight. However, even after this issue was resolved, high speed buffeting and an unreliable engine caused the early Typhoons to be less than popular with their crews.
 == Media ==

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 * Great speed, especially in a dive
-* good frontal armour
+* Equipped with 12 x machine guns
-* A lot of guns
+* At close distance (< 500 m), armament can be surprisingly effective
 * Powerful engine
 * Can carry bombs
 * Decent climb rate, similar to the [[Bf 109 E-3]]
 * A great fighter in AB and RB, and a good ground-pounder in mixed battles
 '''Cons:'''
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 * Slow roll rate
 * 7 mm machine guns will not do much against anything with armour, and have difficulty destroying targets beyond 500 m in RB
-* because of its BR , it will eat though ammo when killing some targets so trigger discipline is needed.
+* Mediocre turn radius in RB
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 * [https://live.warthunder.com/feed/camouflages/?vehicle=typhoon_mk1a Skins and camouflages for the {{PAGENAME}} from live.warthunder.com.]
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 ;Related development
 * [[Typhoon (Family)]]
 == External links ==
 ''Paste links to sources and external resources, such as:''
 * ''topic on the official game forum;''
 * ''other literature.''

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 {{Specs-Avia-Flight}}
 <!-- ''Describe how the aircraft behaves in the air. Speed, manoeuvrability, acceleration and allowable loads - these are the most important characteristics of the vehicle.'' -->
-The Typhoon Mk Ia is a great fighter for the rank it is at. The first thing that a pilot will notice with the Typhoon Mk Ia is that it is insanely fast for its battle rating, so diving at a five to ten-degree angle, if the Typhoon is being attacked or if its attack failed, is a solid choice if the plane has the altitude. However, if playing in Arcade battles with this plane, the diving tactic may not work since the Arcade battle maps are quite small. This is still worth trying since it is a low rank plane and because of that has a low repair cost.
+The Typhoon Mk Ia is a great fighter for the rank it is at. The first thing that a pilot will notice with the Typhoon Mk Ia is that it is insanely fast for its battle rating, so diving at a five to ten-degree angle, if the Typhoon is being attacked or if its attack failed, is a solid choice if the plane has the altitude. However, if playing in Arcade battles with this plane, the diving tactic may not work since the Arcade battle maps are quite small.
 Despite its thick wings, the Typhoon is surprisingly good at turning. It can reliably out-turn Fw 190s and other boom and zoom oriented fighters.
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-* 3 mm Steel - Armored engine plate
+* 3 mm Steel - Armoured engine plate
 * 1 mm Steel - Fore cockpit plate
-* 12.7 mm Steel - Armor plate behind pilot's seat
+* 12.7 mm Steel - Armour plate behind pilot's seat
-* 42.8 mm Bulletproof glass - Armored windscreen
+* 42.8 mm Bulletproof glass - Armoured windscreen
 === Modifications and economy ===
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 * 12 x 7.7 mm Browning machine guns, wing-mounted (500 rpg outer x2 + 460 rpg center x2 + 500 rpg inner x2 = 5,840 total)
-The {{PAGENAME}} 's signature 12 x 0.303 caliber machine guns means quite a lot of gun for a plane, though the drawback to the gun amount is that they are all rifle-calibre and such the Typhoon's firepower is drawn from the mass amount of bullets that can be laid out. The large amounts of bullet fired works as with the right belt, the Typhoon has a large chance to set fires with the high amount of incendiary in the machine gun belts; for this reason, it is plausible to switch to tracer, as 100% of the tracer belt contains incendiary. Be warned: the tracer rounds are much less powerful than the regular ones, so keep that in mind.
+The {{PAGENAME}} 's signature 12 x 0.303 calibre machine guns means quite a lot of gun for a plane, though the drawback to the gun amount is that they are all rifle-calibre and such the Typhoon's firepower is drawn from the mass amount of bullets that can be laid out. The large amounts of bullet fired works as with the right belt, the Typhoon has a large chance to set fires with the high amount of incendiary in the machine gun belts; for this reason, it is plausible to switch to tracer, as 100% of the tracer belt contains incendiary. Be warned: the tracer rounds are much less powerful than the regular ones, so keep that in mind.
 This fighter is an excellent bomber hunter due to its armament's high fire chance, aim for the fuel tanks and let the fire do the rest of the work.
-Another plausible idea when flying the {{PAGENAME}} is to uninstall the New 7.7s modification once it has been unlocked. This will increase the weapon's spread and turn the plane into a flying shotgun, but also increase the chance of gun jamming. To reduce the risk of this, boom and extend with this plane and keep firing bursts disciplined, only firing once within 500 meters with a convergence of 400 to make the best use of the rather weak 7.7s.
+Another plausible idea when flying the {{PAGENAME}} is to uninstall the New 7.7 mm machine guns modification once it has been unlocked. This will increase the weapon's spread and turn the plane into a flying shotgun, but also increase the chance of gun jamming. To reduce the risk of this, boom and extend with this plane and keep firing bursts disciplined, only firing once within 500 m with a convergence of 400 m to make the best use of the rather weak 7.7 mm machine guns.
 === Suspended armament ===
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 The best bet in a bad situation is to either outrun pursuers by engaging WEP and diving, which forces them to break off pursuit, or to just run flat out and hope the magic lead indicator doesn't land them a cockpit shot. Bobbing the plane up and down in the vertical slightly does prevent this.
-Set gun convergence at or in excess of 400, as 500 seems to work the best for Boom and Zoom. Do note that due to the fact that in Arcade wing-rip is a non-element, the Typhoon can dive down in excess of 3 kilometers to chew up enemy planes going for ground targets, then climb back to altitude with the remaining prey none the wiser.
+Set gun convergence at or in excess of 400 m, as 500 m seems to work the best for Boom and Zoom. Do note that due to the fact that in Arcade wing-rip is a non-element, the Typhoon can dive down in excess of 3 km to chew up enemy planes going for ground targets, then climb back to altitude with the remaining prey none the wiser.
 Play the Typhoon wisely, as none of these tips will be of any assistance if a pilot persists in flying straight into furballs
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 The biggest threat to the Typhoon in a downtier is the [[He 100 D-1]] as it can match the Typhoon for top airspeed in level flight, however, the Typhoon can potentially accelerate and out-turn it, meaning that the Typhoon is not without hope.
-In an uptier or midtier match there are many more threats: the Bf 109, which can shred the plane with its cannons, has a better climb rate and turn rate, and generally outperforms the Typhoon in all but speed; the Italian planes, which are generally powerful and require situational counters; and the [[Ki-44-II hei|Ki-44-II]]. The Ki-44-II is arguably the most dangerous of them, as its maximum speed nearly equals that of the Typhoon's at a similar altitude, its turning rate is better and its climbing rate exceeds the Typhoon's by at least one metre per second. Beating the Ki-44 requires discipline and good aim; do not turnfight, as the Typhoon cannot keep up with the lighter Japanese plane. Do note that the Typhoon performs better at high altitudes - in excess of 5,500 meters or 18,000 feet. Do not engage in turning engagements except with Fw 190s.
+In an uptier or midtier match there are many more threats: the Bf 109, which can shred the plane with its cannons, has a better climb rate and turn rate, and generally outperforms the Typhoon in all but speed; the Italian planes, which are generally powerful and require situational counters; and the [[Ki-44-II hei|Ki-44-II]]. The Ki-44-II is arguably the most dangerous of them, as its maximum speed nearly equals that of the Typhoon's at a similar altitude, its turning rate is better and its climbing rate exceeds the Typhoon's by at least one metre per second. Beating the Ki-44 requires discipline and good aim; do not turnfight, as the Typhoon cannot keep up with the lighter Japanese plane. Do note that the Typhoon performs better at high altitudes - in excess of 5,500 m or 18,000 ft. Do not engage in turning engagements except with Fw 190s.
-If all else fails, run on the deck: the Typhoon can reach in excess of 550 km/h with WEP at 150 meters (500 feet) in RB, 512 km/h without, and outspeeds almost every other plane at its battle rating. The Typhoon's WEP is exceptional and lasts far longer before overheating than most other planes in the game at every altitude. Her rate of cooling also sits in the top half of those planes in War Thunder - especially after the Rank II Spitfires got their engine rework.
+If all else fails, run on the deck: the Typhoon can reach in excess of 550 km/h with WEP at 150 m (500 ft) in RB, 512 km/h without, and outspeeds almost every other plane at its battle rating. The Typhoon's WEP is exceptional and lasts far longer before overheating than most other planes in the game at every altitude. Her rate of cooling also sits in the top half of those planes in War Thunder - especially after the Rank II Spitfires got their engine rework.
 Against a skilled pilot, the A6M2 and A6M3 are non-issues; they simply do not have the speed, climb rate, or toughness to compete. Do be aware that if these planes catch a Typhoon at low speed and low altitude, they will very easily destroy the Typhoon. If the Typhoon pilot is fortunate enough to possess some altitude, he will pitch down, run, then climb until the plane has the energy to re-engage.
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 * Great speed, especially in a dive
 * A lot of guns
-* At closer distances (< 500m), armament can be surprisingly effective
+* At closer distances (< 500 m), armament can be surprisingly effective
 * Powerful engine
 * Can carry bombs
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 == Media ==
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 == See also ==
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+<!-- ''Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:''
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+* [[Typhoon (Family)]]
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