It’s a brick and does not fly as agile as a fighter. You’re not seeing the problem.
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I see pros and cons, each has their own. That’s why one is at 4.0 and the other is at 2.0
Do you not see the problem with a dedicated Fighter aircraft having an APHE belt capable of going through almost everything at that BR frontally?
The XA-38 and Hs129 are bricks. They’re twin engine strike aircraft. They don’t multirole.
The Yak not only can multirole, but it does CAS better than the Hs129 and XA-38. Even worse, it gets bombs and can easily fight off aircraft. The Yak is easily better than even the 6.7 Me262 Polkisturer now and you refuse to see it.
Sure, it isn’t as fast in a straight line, but it turns better, has better acceleration, can do the same job, can defend itself, and can drop bombs. For these abilities you get an aircraft that’s over 2 BR lower.
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Because why not?
I have ~6.84 K/D in Jak-9UT, the 45mm is deadly even against Tiger IIs.
It is the best CAS in game at the moment.
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Things like the Xa-38 can kill 6.0 panthers with ease. A 6.0 with a 3.7 that can carry 4 500lb bombs too, with a defensive armament.
May not be specific multiroles, but I have seen both kill other planes fairly commonly.
Bombs must be a rank 12 modification. I don’t have them yet
Oh I see. That’s why one is a 6.7 and the other is… a 4.0
Not like speed, acceleration, armor, gun etc etc come into play.
Playing a plane to its weaknesses is not a wise tactic, you’d be wise to remember that.
Sheesh I better work on getting those modifications to get to rank 12. Gotta get me some bombs on the only Russian fighter in game with Both a 45mm and bombs.
Since the Su-8 flys like a boat, why is it 4.7? Shouldn’t it be like 1.7? It flys worse than a Hs-129 or Xa-38
Very slow planes and solid shot
Barely flies
It is a medium bomber with a gun.
Yeah, that’s the thing. It’s a Yak-9. It’s not an underpowered attacker that struggles to fly, nor an oversized clumsy attacker.
By that reasoning the 50mm 262 is actually way overtiered and not good at all. After all, the gun is barely any larger, with very little ammo, and you can find the same cannon at 3.0.
Which are harder to aim because you’re an overweight attacker and if you miss, the reload is so long you often won’t get a second shot off. Vs the Yak-9K that can just shoot more and can pull off much later because it is a FIGHTER.
If you don’t see the benefit in that, then we can just move the 50mm 262 down to where the 50mm Me 410s are. After all, the only thing that matters is the cannon.
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The cannon on the 75mm for the Xa 38 reloads in about 1.3 secs. It has 78 rnd a min.
If one has to move, all should. Doesn’t make sense to one move one whole plane in one nation, unless… someone’s upset they died to it. @ULQ_LOVER
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I don’t get why You @ me to it as i love using 45mm russian APHE with Jak-9UT in GRB.
But I guess it has to do with You having:
~0,45 K/D in XA-38 Grizzly,
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Yup my kd is pretty bad in the grizzly but most of it is from when I was new to the game many years ago, and tried to use it like a fighter lol
I also play on controller which makes all these planes vastly harder to aim.
So Your experience in the topic when comparing it to russian planes like Jak-9UT is abysmal? Great to hear.
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Nope, but I’m glad you’re showing that high horse attitude.
I like flying the TU-1 which has 45mms and less pen than an XA-38 again, plus it flys like a boat. But guess what? I still like it.
TU-1
Xa-38
Yak
Hs-129
Me262
Etc all very capable aircraft set at pretty balanced brs
Or do you not have any AAs?
Also do you only play warthunder there guy? You know there’s thousands of other games to play
With how many games you have, you could easily play the xa-38 but you simply refuse to test it as you know it won’t come out in your favor
Great to hear, but if I wanted to ask how You feel I would do that in PMs.
Not really, Yaks have much more advantage than all aircrafts You have listed. But I guess it takes some skill to understand it.
Another great comment! I guess we wouldn’t be talking here but rather on other game forum if You would be playing something else ;)
I played XA-38 and I know what this vehicle is capable of. It is not on level of russian vehicles with 45mm. Saying stuff like that is just simply lying.
Edit: Don’t like my replies so You are going to report them? Good one.
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That is impossible.
Of these, only two used a fighter as a base.
Of these, only ONE can actually do something (aside from being a free kill) about other fighters if they aren’t bots.
Also how come the Tu-1 with a worse airframe and the same 45mm cannons is a full BR higher than the 9K? Funny how that works.
How am I lying? And oh did I now?
Because it has double the ammo, 3x 1000kg bombs (that never seem to kill anything) 2 gunners, etc.
So 4x 500lb bombs are useless? all with a higher damaging cannon too? By that logic, the 45mms are useless.
The XA-38’s only downfall is a slower than fighter turn rate, still pretty quick for a twin engine.
And it’s at a lower br, of 3.7
You’ll never have as good of a setup as the yak-9K.
Their usefulness comes from their high explosive filler, and them being mounted on a decent fighter platform. They also have a great ROF, as well as good accuracy.
For a twin engine.
The Yak-9K is currently undertiered at 4.0, and it needs to go to 4.7 at the minimum. You are massively underrating it’s potential, and ignoring the fact that it’s on a great platform that’s easy to set up shots with.
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What I’m being, is fair.
USA, Germany, and Japan have equally good strike aircraft.
Russia has the highest of all these already.
Therefor if the Yak goes up, all must follow.
Crazy to think a lot of you believe the XA-38 is less potent than a Yak, as most CAS kills are from bombs
No. A Do-335 isn’t equal to this because it’s stuck with AP/HVAP. Japan doesn’t have good CAS in general.
No. CAS is too good, but the Yak is more OP than most CAS.
For a whole 0.3BR you go from a heavy twin engine fighter, to an equal/better cannon on a FIGHTER plane. You are deliberately underplaying the Yaks advantages, and you’re really showing your bias right now.
Actual lies
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