Surprises me the most that the Yak-130 will be comparatively weaker to the M-346FA. Although it’s completely understandeable that an aircraft restricted to TV-guided bombs (KAB-500Kr) would have lower battle rating, but even A-4E Skyhawk has proper air-to-air weapons.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/DdWVNQXj68sK
If the developers isn’t planning to add the aircraft with its full weapons (compared to the M-346FA which has most of it) hopefully we’ll see Yak-130M with 4x R-73 air-to-air missiles at least:
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Isnt it BR balancing issue, as base Yak-130 doesnt have flares?
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This would be like adding the Finnish Hawk MK.51A with 9M, it has no CMs so it’s just a balancing factor.
BVV_d mentioned they didn’t give it R-73 because it doesn’t have flares. It would be a BR issue. We’ll have to wait for the Yak-130M which would be the definitive edition.
The Yak-130 should be able to carry countermeasures on the wingtip hardpoints (at the expense of two of the four R-73s)
Kinda soft ban on future F-8P
i dont know what they are doing but they have the choice to add CMS and give r60m.
or just r60m.
Small note, those pictures are of the Yak/AEM-130D, not the Yak-130, the prototype that was built when Italy and Russia were still working together on the aircraft
That’s a shame. I was looking forward to using it at a higher rating for laughs.
