#DAUNTLESS DIVE BOMBER GEAR FREE#

your high G tolerance is equal, if not better than most enemies so you could lose them if they cant follow your turn. If you cannot lose the enemy, try to quickly turn to your enemy's direction.

If you are caught at high altitude, go into a steep dive until you are at the deck, there is a good chance you may out dive them. You should stay on deck and manoeuvre wisely to not expose your weak underbelly. After you drop your bombs, the plane should be manoeuvrable enough to dogfight enemies. Ships are also prime targets (it is what it was designed for), as the 1000lb bomb is plenty to sink a small ship.ĭo not rely on fighter support when focusing on ground targets. The small bomb load requires you pick your targets carefully and make your bombs count, choose to attack artillery positions or bases, where you have a higher chance of hitting due to their stationary position.

Start at a high altitude at around 4-5,000 feet, fly directly above the target, invert the plane, cut the throttle and deploy airbrakes (H key by default), dive, at 1,000-700 feet release bombs, pull the nose up, retract air brakes, push the throttle to full, then pitch up in a climb. This plane is good at what it was designed for Dive Bombing. You should try to keep your speed higher than 200 km/h and stay at altitudes lower than 2km. Its manoeuvrability is good enough to energy fight the enemy. Use this to your advantage by catching unsuspecting bombers and fighters. The Dauntless is an underrated aircraft, as it is viewed as a weak and sluggish bomber by a majority of tier 1 players. 2 x 7.62 mm Browning machine guns, dorsal turret (1,000 rpg = 2,000 total).Despite being a bomber, SBD is also quite a manoeuvrable aircraft, allowing to win prolonged turn fights with less agile opponents such as the He 112 or MiG-3. The heavy armament compared to contemporaries found in other tech trees allows for engaging enemy fighters using altitude advantage or, after installation of the DGP-1 machine gun pods, engaging enemy medium and heavy bombers such as Fw 200s, He 111s or Ju 88s. It features an airspawn allowing for quick bombing runs out of reach of enemy fighters, as your bombs are dropped before the fighters can climb up to your altitude. In War Thunder since the start of the Open Beta Test, the SBD-3 Dauntless is one of the first bombers in the American aviation tech tree.

#DAUNTLESS DIVE BOMBER GEAR FREE#

Foreign users included the Royal Navy, Free French Air Force, Mexico, Chile, and Morocco. By 1944, the SBD was slowly being replaced by the faster and more modern SB2C Helldiver. Its biggest success was during the Battle of Midway in June 1942, when SBD bombers sank four aircraft carriers, namely Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, and Hiryū. The SBD participated in many battles in the Pacific theatre, and achieved successes such as the sinking of Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. Featuring a range of about 1,700 km, and quite heavy armaments for its size and role - two 12.7 mm Browning M2 machine guns in the engine cowling and a bomb load of up to 2,250 lbs, it was very versatile plane. It replaced the SBC Helldiver and SBU Corsair aboard US carriers. The SBD Dauntless was the workhorse of the US Navy, serving from 1940 all the way to late 1944 as the main carrier-based dive bomber.

Dauntless dive bomber gear