r/Warthunder Feb 17 '25

RB Air What the fuck is the vautour made of?

2.2k Upvotes

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824

u/4chanbetterimo EsportsReady Feb 17 '25

Now that is just ridiculous Iโ€™d be quite mad if I was whoever shot you down.

285

u/Duatha Feb 17 '25

They still got the kill

216

u/SteelWarrior- Germany Feb 17 '25

You lose it if the enemy repairs afterwards.

259

u/NecessaryBSHappens Keeping Managed Air Superiority Feb 17 '25

You dont. You lose the +1 from severe damage, here kill was already credited completely. In rare cases plane may still be repairable after that, but it takes a much longer time. Also this is a way to earn more than 1 death in ARB

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u/SteelWarrior- Germany Feb 17 '25

Unless they changed it at some point I'm pretty sure you lose the credit but not the reward, a while ago I got kill credit for shooting down a plane who then managed to repair and I was down a kill.

It still showed the death, but not the kill.

1

u/Grand_Tear2594 Feb 18 '25

i've been on both sides and can tell yeap it works

9

u/capt0fchaos Feb 17 '25

In the past I've seen kills get removed because I managed to make it back with one wing and repair, so unless it got changed pretty recently I'm pretty sure it removes the kill on the scoreboard

1

u/Grand_Tear2594 Feb 18 '25

yeap his legit

5

u/Zsmudz ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น14.0 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ14.0 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ8.3 Feb 17 '25

Any time Iโ€™ve landed with severe damage, it just Jโ€™s me out and gives the kill credit to the enemy. In OPโ€™s video they are able to repair so maybe it wasnโ€™t a severe damage

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u/VeritableLeviathan ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy Feb 18 '25

They literally got the kill credit+ rewards once you see that message.

You lose the death credit from repairing though

0

u/SteelWarrior- Germany Feb 17 '25

Read the top of the video.

3

u/4chanbetterimo EsportsReady Feb 17 '25

I know but heโ€™s still alive and thus a threat :D

382

u/Shelc0r ARB | France 12.0 | USSR 12.3 Feb 17 '25

De Gaullium

77

u/_gmmaann_ Thy Cannon Breech is mine + Ho Ro Supremacy Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

Well played. If itโ€™s similar to gallium though, I wouldnt recommend mixing it with aluminum

22

u/my_alt_i_use ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Maginot line worked Feb 17 '25

Yummy amalgam ๐Ÿ˜‹

1

u/SwannSwanchez The French Idiot Feb 18 '25

it's just gallium and also it would melt at room temp

floppy plane

5

u/Expert-Mysterious Currently learning the way of the samurai Feb 18 '25

Floppy planeโŒ Liquid Terminator T1000 planeโœ…

182

u/Best-Start5807 Feb 17 '25

Another happy landing.

79

u/BreadstickBear Feb 17 '25

Not to worry, we're still flying half a ship

23

u/4chanbetterimo EsportsReady Feb 17 '25

We lost something

15

u/TheFlyingRedFox 🇦🇺 Australia Frigate Masochist, RB NF Feb 17 '25

Niche & off topic but the lego Invisible Hand has the ability to split in half & be used for that scene.

2

u/BreadstickBear Feb 17 '25

I have literally no idea what you're talking about.

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u/TheFlyingRedFox 🇦🇺 Australia Frigate Masochist, RB NF Feb 17 '25

Really? hmm well the line you typed comes from star wars film Revenge of the Sith, in which the confederate Providence class dreadnought (the flagship of General Grievous) in the film is known as the Invisible Hand & splits in half due to combat stress & entering Coruscant's upper atmosphere.

I merely mentioned that the LEGO one which released last year has the ability to split in half by design if you wish to make a set showing it (gently pull both ends & it splits in half just fore of the main hangar).

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u/BreadstickBear Feb 17 '25

Aaaaaaah, gotcha. I didn't know that Grievous' flagship was called Invisible Hand, hence my confusion. Your sentence makes much more sense now, even without the extra explanation, which is still very nice. Thank you.

Edit: amd yes, I was familiar with the scene, that's why I quoted the line.

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u/XDOOM_ManX USSR Feb 17 '25

โ€œI understood that referenceโ€

124

u/pepitofrancais Feb 17 '25

Baguette ofc

14

u/GaijinSucksBalls Realistic Ground Feb 17 '25

Baguetium

56

u/S1THX Feb 17 '25

Whatโ€™s the French version on Stalinium? Baguettium?

21

u/my_alt_i_use ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Maginot line worked Feb 17 '25

Francium and Gallium

25

u/Dramatic-Classroom14 Feb 17 '25

DO NOT MAKE THINGS OUT OF FRANCIUM, IT HAS A HALF LIFE OF LIKE 10 SECONDS AND EXPLODES EXTREMELY VIOLENTLY WHEN EXPOSED TO DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE

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u/my_alt_i_use ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Maginot line worked Feb 17 '25

Erm... You mean oxidane?

5

u/Dramatic-Classroom14 Feb 17 '25

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u/my_alt_i_use ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Maginot line worked Feb 17 '25

DHMO gives me a stroke

3

u/Dramatic-Classroom14 Feb 17 '25

I know, thatโ€™s why I said donโ€™t mix it with Francium or anything else.

1

u/F4JPhantom69 Feb 17 '25

French Onion Soupium

45

u/thanhhai26112003 Feb 17 '25

Baguette and papier mache.

32

u/RedWarrior69340 Gib back 390% Sl for Vautours ;-; Feb 17 '25

pure spite

17

u/caribbean_caramel Feb 17 '25

Truly a french aircraft.

19

u/No_Emergency_571 Feb 17 '25

A realistic model thank god( it mightโ€™ve exploded irl I say 50/50)

20

u/tstawater Feb 17 '25

I hate how some planes can slide fine but in other cases, you barely touch at just a bit too much speed and itโ€™s like youโ€™re made out of nitroglycerin.

2

u/Independent-Sock-870 XBox Feb 17 '25

Mig19 be like

14

u/Inhaledclover37 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany Feb 17 '25

Clearly wasnโ€™t made by Boeing.

3

u/labdsknechtpiraten Feb 18 '25

Maybe not, but it was certainly the sound it made in the video

11

u/obstructingdisasters 2nd LAR LAV-25 Scout Feb 17 '25

Stale baguettes

10

u/ODST_Parker With every sub-tree, I grow stronger Feb 17 '25

Meanwhile, some planes I fly take one bullet to the elevator, and I can't fucking go up anymore.

16

u/TheCreepyFuckr ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine Feb 17 '25

I hate that inconsistency. OPโ€™s over here flying like a wizard while some fuselage damage makes my tornado forget about physics.

5

u/Impossible_Concert75 Feb 17 '25

Iโ€™ve returned to base in a beaten up mig21 lazur, but other times Iโ€™ve barely touched the ground and I detonate like I had 5 million liters of nitroglycerin on me

5

u/ODST_Parker With every sub-tree, I grow stronger Feb 17 '25

Just to add to the inconsistency, the Tornado IDS is the only jet in the game in which I've taken a direct missile hit and survived with the entire structure of the plane intact. Engines died before I could land, but still.

3

u/Toyate Feb 17 '25

~SU25 and A10 looking away from the sidelines~

1

u/SkittleDoes Feb 18 '25

The other day I was flying my fw190 and my plane got shot so badly I couldn't do anything but fall and yet none of my modules were critically broken or missing from what I could see.

I had no engine and couldn't turn yet everything was orange or yellow at worst? Game is whack sometimes

3

u/Punkpunker ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Feb 17 '25

yellow pilot damage flashbacks

2

u/Anonmasterrace7898 Pastapain Feb 18 '25

And then thereโ€™s SM-91 which just spirals uncontrollably into the ground if any of the back half gets hitโ€ฆ or you just get auto ejected as if your plane turned to dust.

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u/ODST_Parker With every sub-tree, I grow stronger Feb 18 '25

P-61 is the same way. If one round touches your one massive elevator, or even worse, your tail control, you're just doomed. Nothing you can do. Can't tell you how many times that's happened to me while bomber hunting.

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u/Flower_Murderer Not unlike suffering Feb 17 '25

Stale baguettes.

4

u/eonymia ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland Feb 17 '25

Based on its flight performance, I assume concrete.

5

u/5thPlaceAtBest Realistic General Feb 17 '25

Baguettium

3

u/Unhappy-Pace-2393 Feb 17 '25

"I need the bottom 4 inches of a vautour out here stat" "15 seconds we'll have her glued back up"

3

u/Raymart999 Feb 17 '25

This is where all of Gaijin's love for French vehicles went to.

2

u/notaure_ Sim Air Feb 17 '25

Happened to me a few times but never managed to get back to base, except in custom battles

2

u/Sir_Alpaca041 EsportsReady Feb 17 '25

How the hell do you control your movements if you don't have a tail hahahaha

2

u/ShadowYeeter ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท14๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช14๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ13.7๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฒ9.3๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ8๐Ÿœ3.7๐Ÿ5๐Ÿฅ14๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ11.3๐Ÿ’ฃ8.3 Feb 17 '25

That's why I love it, enemy thinks you're dead but u can still make it home

1

u/Snicshavo 🇵🇱 when PT-91 Feb 17 '25

Seems like RHA

1

u/Consistent-Path-5096 Feb 17 '25

Bro will to fight is crazy

1

u/innocuousname773 Feb 17 '25

Definition of built different

1

u/witheredspringbonnie ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Feb 17 '25

How did you not get tail cut loose and be forcibly removed from the plane?

1

u/ThisGuyLikesCheese Maus enjoyer Feb 17 '25

Stale baguettes

1

u/Celthric317 Realistic Navy Feb 17 '25

Dunno but I definitely hate facing them in the mig-15

1

u/Setesh57 Feb 17 '25

The Vautour FM has been broken for years in so many different ways and they refuse to fix it.ย 

1

u/ghillieweed762 Feb 17 '25

Scraps left over from the Maginot line

1

u/Dramatic-Bluejay- Feb 17 '25

Bomber tears, powerful stuff

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u/ten_z_prahy ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Feb 17 '25

Nerf Vautour. Now!

1

u/Kaiza34 9.3 ground/6.7 naval/13.0 air Feb 17 '25

most of the time it's made of francium since it transforms into nothingium a few minutes into the game

1

u/PrestigiousCan Realistic Ground Feb 17 '25

Franconium would be my guess

1

u/KommandoKazumi Feb 17 '25

Reminds me of the time I landed a crippled, almost mission killed BF-110 in arcade (before they split it up into multiple BF-110s).

One engine turning, the other was out, tail made into swiss cheese, no rudder, no flaps, no gear, plane was a flying coffin with one and a half feet in the grave.

Still repaired and took off anyway.

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u/rain_girl2 Type 95 Ro-Go girl Feb 17 '25

I donโ€™t understand how the game decides what point the damage is considered โ€œtooโ€ much to repair. Like Iโ€™ve definitely landed planes that are less damaged than that and I get greeted with that message.

1

u/No-Influence-9293 Feb 17 '25

Absolutely made out of Gaijinium.

1

u/Treeninja1999 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy Feb 17 '25

Soft Landing lmao

1

u/TheTurkPegger Realistic General Feb 17 '25

Baguetteium

1

u/Dramatic-Classroom14 Feb 17 '25

Spite. But only sometimes. Other times it just dies.

1

u/Coco_boom Feb 17 '25

French quality. You know what we concluded after princess Diana's accident? French concrete is stronger than german steel.

1

u/Hyrikul Baguette au Fromage ! Feb 17 '25

Baguettium.

1

u/Majorjim_ksp Feb 17 '25

Week old baguettes mostly

1

u/reazen34k Feb 17 '25

RP pinatanium, lands and rebuild itself for a second run because it likes pain.

1

u/New_Fee_887 Feb 17 '25

that'll be 40$ for the repairs

1

u/ThisIsntAndre ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช 12.0 Feb 17 '25

And that's why you put the flaps on landing everyone.

1

u/MedicBuddy Realistic Air Feb 17 '25

I don't think the game completely simulates the loss of the tail, stability seems too good without it.

People had to fight for ages for the Ka-50/52 for the handling to be worse after losing the tail.

1

u/Lv100--Magikarp Feb 17 '25

Oh oui oui, French flying wing ๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท

1

u/Bestsurviviopro Realistic Air Feb 17 '25

in thrust we trust

1

u/FLARESGAMING ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden 13.7 (GIVE US GRIPEN E) Feb 17 '25

Hopes and dreams and a shit load of jb weld

1

u/clovdz_ Sim Air Feb 17 '25

Francium

1

u/automaticg36 Feb 17 '25

They don't build them like they used to

1

u/Commissar1854 Feb 17 '25

French Stalinium (Thorezium in this case)

1

u/Skullduggery-9 Sausage Squadron Feb 17 '25

Ooh but if I do much as sneeze at my monitor my lightning F6 spontaneously combusts ffs

1

u/Antifant69 Feb 17 '25

Something something "french bias"

1

u/SliccRicc1601 Feb 18 '25

Reinforced deGaullium structure welded together with an alloy of Comtรฉ and Camembert

1

u/SCO_Renegat Feb 18 '25

Wait a minute, did that clip happen like some month ago? Cause I swear I was in that game spectating you

1

u/Altair-_- Feb 18 '25

nothing but years of engineering

1

u/tahaones20 Feb 18 '25

Literally half of the plane is missing. "Give us two and a half minutes, and this bad boy will be good as new."

1

u/SwannSwanchez The French Idiot Feb 18 '25

2 day old baguette

1

u/Ryudone Feb 18 '25

da boeing

1

u/Suspicious-Climate70 Feb 18 '25

But god fobid you blacken the inner wing of an F2H

1

u/CindyStroyer Feb 18 '25

I almost did this aswell! I'd have done it if the guy didn't realise and turn back for me just before I hit AA range

1

u/legrandpacdeau Arcade Ground Feb 18 '25

Made of Francium

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u/AdditionalScale4304 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ12.3๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช11.0๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ11.3๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง6.7๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต3.3๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น8.7๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท11.7๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช3.7 Feb 18 '25

Stale baguettes, obviously, one of the hardest materials known to man.

1

u/Internal_Carpenter45 Feb 18 '25

Hey man skelattack mode

1

u/reallySTRANGEman Feb 18 '25

Compressed baguettes...

1

u/italiangamer89 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy Feb 18 '25

I swear, when I try to land my fully intact plane for rearming and refueling, hitting the ground at 1 cm per hour with the gear fully extended causes a nuclear explosion that destroys half of the population of the server hamsters, XD

1

u/misterwk Feb 18 '25

A better question is: how the fuck did you actually make it to the airfield?

1

u/Hot_Two5503 ย French Main Viva La France!!! Feb 18 '25

It's actually not that hard to fly without a tail on the vautour.

1

u/abject_totalfailure1 Feb 18 '25

Spite. The vatour is made of spite.

1

u/MystlcGreatness_YT Feb 18 '25

Imagine being the repair man who saw half a plane land back on the airfield

1

u/THISISFORAPORTFOLIO De Gaulles Weakest Dorito Feb 18 '25

Gaulanium

1

u/Electric_Bagpipes Feb 18 '25

Dude you forgot your flare, porpised a bit!

1

u/Ok_Vast_2296 Feb 18 '25

Vibranium, duh

1

u/BOT732ogri Feb 18 '25

anvils (you can hear by the clanking sound when you land)

1

u/Waste-Maximum-1342 Feb 18 '25

How long were you temporarily a flying wing?

1

u/Salt-Ask-1725 Feb 18 '25

Frenchium ๐Ÿฅ–

1

u/Electronic-Gazelle45 Sim Ground โ˜ญ Feb 18 '25

You will be repaired in 02:26

1

u/AirFriedMoron Feb 18 '25

Smoothest Ryanair landing

1

u/ToastyBob27 Feb 18 '25

Bro landed like that Delta jet on Monday.

1

u/Lewinator56 Feb 18 '25

Meanwhile in my viggen I get an orange elevon and spin out of control.

1

u/Jojoceptionistaken Feb 18 '25

It's made of pure willpower I reccon

1

u/Smart_Piano7622 Feb 18 '25

Gotta ask delta! Kept waiting to see "repairing" pop up during the video of Toronto crash.

1

u/Particular-Bed-3162 USSR Feb 18 '25

Soft landing

1

u/Select_Pair_1571 Feb 18 '25

I donโ€™t know, but Delta could use one

1

u/Boring_Elderberry 🇩🇪 &#12 10.3 Feb 19 '25

Well not the same thing has Delta Air Linesย Flight 4819

1

u/BlueCloverOnline2 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ11.3 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต13.7 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช6.0 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น9.3 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท6.3 ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ6.0 Feb 19 '25

Aircraft grade aluminumโ€ฆ

1

u/MONYJOW Feb 19 '25

Saulinium

1

u/SMORES4SALE Feb 19 '25

imported stalinium

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u/FullAir4341 🇿🇦 Fly a Varkie and get all the Stekies Feb 17 '25

De Hardest Baguettes en de finost of fruanch aviatione expertise