130m has maws and more cm too iirc
Already failed. They’re definitely doing it to keep it low in br
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Bvv wants its personal Alpha Jet. Modernised Yak-130 might arrive at a later time to around same BR as M-346.
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Yes the President-S130 complex is indeed a huge step forward into modernization of the aircraft which was not the topic I’ve mentioned, as I said Yak-130M won’t improve a lot from the base Yak-130 at the moment in terms of weapons because we don’t know for sure. Yes it has the possibility to integrate smart weapons like radar-guided missile and more advanced anti-tank munitions like Kh-25, Kh-29 and Kh-38 but again it’s not sure. At least I don’t have official sources stating that.
Watch it get Kh-39M
R-73 are useless on the dev server currently anyways lol
just keep this yak-130 early (yes its called yak_130_early in the files) without AAMs at 9.0 as a very good dogfighter and wait for yak-130m with 20% stronger engines, 2x R-73 and flares at 11.0 (like Su-25BM)
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Kh-39M. LMUR-ER
They’ve been useless for a while, alongside magic 2s. Yank missiles still track fine though.
yeah but on the dev server they have no proxy fuse and they pull 25G. I think its bugged because I cant imagine them nerfing them THAT hard
Not sure how giving Yak-130 flares would significantly raise it’s BR ( it would raise it by 0.3 BR at most ) but yeah it proves that the lack of flares has nothing to do with the technical side of things, it’s a deliberate choice from Gaijin to gimp the Yak-130 , a strange one at that being given there are multiple example of aircraft in the game that never employed chaff/flare dispensers during service yet received them in the game …
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It wouldn’t. There’s a 6.3 attacker that has flares and a toilet.
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Yeah that is my point , hence why it makes 0 sense to not give it countermeasures .
They should have just added it as the YAK 130M or YAK-131 with all the bells and whistles that the Italian equivalent has, The current yak 130 is in a very awkward spot
There will certainly be a place for Yak-130M in the future but a low BR Yak-130 armed with KAB is far more useful at 9.0-10.0 BR where the Soviet tree dramatically lacks guided AtG than a Yak-130M with all the bells and whistles ( AESA , R-77-1 , Kh-38 etc ) at 13.3BR or something like that … my 2 cents. Ideally we would get both variants at the same time but i’m glad they went with the more urgent option.
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The m346 in the game is not the best, the better one is the block 20 version. It has 9 pylons AESA radar and more stuff
They also don’t want countermeasures, since they quote ‘do not plan to equip the Yak-130 with countermeasures at this time.’