- For PC
- For MAC
- For Linux
- OS: Windows 7 SP1/8/10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Dual-Core 2.2 GHz
- Memory: 4GB
- Video Card: DirectX 10.1 level video card: AMD Radeon 77XX / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660. The minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 3600 and better
- Memory: 16 GB and more
- Video Card: DirectX 11 level video card or higher and drivers: Nvidia GeForce 1060 and higher, Radeon RX 570 and higher
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
- OS: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0 or newer
- Processor: Core i5, minimum 2.2GHz (Intel Xeon is not supported)
- Memory: 6 GB
- Video Card: Intel Iris Pro 5200 (Mac), or analog from AMD/Nvidia for Mac. Minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p with Metal support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
- OS: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0 or newer
- Processor: Core i7 (Intel Xeon is not supported)
- Memory: 8 GB
- Video Card: Radeon Vega II or higher with Metal support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
- OS: Most modern 64bit Linux distributions
- Processor: Dual-Core 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA 660 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months; the minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p) with Vulkan support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7
- Memory: 16 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA 1060 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD (Radeon RX 570) with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) with Vulkan support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
The Su-7B was developed as a new type of ground support aircraft, a fighter-bomber. We introduce a new strike aircraft for the USSR, the first jet vehicle in the glorious Sukhoi attack aircraft family!
Su-7B, attack fighter, USSR, VI rank
Pros
- Good horizontal flight speed
- A variety of mounted weapons
Cons
- Mediocre controllability
- No guided weapons
With the development of jet aviation, piston-engined attack aircraft quickly became an anachronism; a need arose for a new class of front-line aircraft - a fighter bomber. In the USSR, the MiG-15 and MiG-17 fighter jets were used to replace the piston-engined IL-10 to support the ground forces from the air, but it was quite obvious that a specialized machine was needed to fulfill the tasks of the fighter-bomber. The most suitable candidate was the Sukhoi Su-7 fighter jet, taken as the basis for the Su-7B fighter-bomber project. By the end of 1958, the first prototype was ready with the new AL-7F-1 engine. For almost two years, the aircraft underwent intensive testing and refinement, and in 1960 the new fighter-bomber went into mass production. Of the 431 planned, 344 Su-7Bs were built to equip up to 25 combat units. From the beginning of the 70’s, the Su-7B aircraft began to be replaced with more modern modifications and models.
In our game, the Su-7B will appear in the next update of War Thunder: Starfighters at rank VI in the USSR combat aviation tech tree. With this model we begin the addition of the Sukhoi attack aircraft to the game, well-known combat machines that took part in a number of armed conflicts of modern times.
The Su-7B is a supersonic attack aircraft, capable to quite effectively support ground forces in mixed battles, destroy enemy helicopters, but devoid of air-to-air guided missiles to battle the fighter-interceptors. The Su-7B reaches a maximum speed of almost Mach 2 (more than 2150 km / h), but the Su-7B has obvious problems with maneuvering at high speeds. The offensive armament of the aircraft is a pair of 30mm NR-30 cannons with a stock of 80 shells per barrel. These are well suited for the destruction of helicopters or even light vehicles - SPAAGs, IFVs, or ATGM carriers.
Mounted weapons are what is definitely worth developing in this aircraft. The overall payload is relatively small - up to 2 tons, but the armament is quite diverse. There are bombs in the presets of 4x250 kg and 4x500 kg, S5K rockets in containers (64 in total), and new to the game, S-3K armor-piercing high explosive rockets (28 at once), as well as huge S-24 rockets (4 rockets maximum). This aircraft was designed to inflict quite a lot of damage at high speed on one or two targets in one fire raid. Hit, climb, hide from anti-aircraft guns - hit again!
In general, the Su-7B is a very good aircraft for combined battles or ground attack missions at the high ranks of aviation game modes. It is not perfect, but has its own useful and distinctive role in the game. The Su-7B will appear in our hangars with the release of the next update of War Thunder: Starfighters very soon. See you there!
The War Thunder Team
Comments (193)
When will there be a Dev blog about the Challenger 2F. Also, I think it should be changed to Challenger 2 TES as that is what it is more commonly know as in my experience.
Ah yaaas. And it should kick off not only more Fitter's (like the pretty capable Su-17's) but eh whole Sukhoi bureau line with the Su-9 then the Su-11 then the Su-15...
Yeah cool only 2 years late .............
this patch will be boring for tank players, thank you Gaijin for nothing.
Loved this in the Dev server, won't be meta but a very cool aircraft which opens up the tree to a new and promising line in future patches.
players: "hurr why only su7 this update so late it shouldve been added 8 updates ago and we should be getting su25 su27 now" damn nice ungrateful people /s
Could you like, stop adding vehicles for a while and focus a little bit on optimizing the grind? There's no point in having 2000 vehicles in the game when the bulk of the playerbase won't get even close to playing them within this lifetime. Come on have some sense....
i thought this update is gonna be called "Regia Marina" due to the addition of the italian naval tech tree but nope, they just called it "Starfighters" instead because it added the infamous f-104 starfighter. you guys seem to mislead your fan here.
Nice unique plane. But just asking will we see more modern aircraft at least by patch 1.103 or 2.3?
Have a Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone!
is there any news about the new Aircarft carriers??
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