isnt the jak-130 a bit cracked? sorry not a bit A LOT u get 4 rockets 500kgs that guarrantee u 4 kills no way of doing anything againts them,. can somebody explain how is it fair
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Once you notice it’s a Russian plane you understand everything. “Russian bias doesn’t exist” they said
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It’s just a near-modern jet at 9.0, how could it be?
Surely it doesn’t just out-do everything at this BR in a dogfight except for Ariete while still going fast enough to be a threat to people?
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If you mean in ground battles, yes the vehicle can be considered annoying given the 4x KAB-500Kr TV-guided bombs. American A-4E, swiss Hunter F.58, israeli A-4E and israeli A-4E (M) is also there to be part of the party so don’t expect this to be a exclusive thing as @XiEE is saying. If you mean in air battles Yak-130 can surely be a pebble in the shoe, but given the very small amount of ammo combined with the absurd fire of rate in the 23 mm cannons, Yak-130 can quickly come from a predator to a prey in a matter of a few seconds, most other jets can out-perform it in terms of guns but it doesn’t mean that Yak-130 itself is bad.
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This is fine in theory but not fine when you find anybody who can just shoot accurately, which isn’t that hard to find especially when the yak130 flies like a much higher BR jet in dogfights
there are planes around the same br with 3-5 guided ordenance, its nothing new
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extremely few, I only remember a4 variants
I remember the scimitar at 8.7 from my sqrb days. its probably still around that br
It’s 9.0
mclos is not same as tv guided
Currently the A-4E(early) is at 9.3 with 2 Walleyes and there is the A-4E/ A-4E Early (M) with Walleyes ERs and a GBU 8 and a2a missiles and the Hunter F.58 at 9.7 with 2 AGM-65s. Then at 10.0 there is the Ayit with 2 Walleye ERs and 3 AGM-65 and . All of those have counter measures, while the Yak-130 doesn’t.
Compared to those I don’t see it going higher than 9.7, even if they give it it’s flare pods it would still be worse than the Ayit.
Of course all of those could stand to go up in GRB, but currently the Yak doesn’t really stand out.
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Those are also outliers, which have probably been forgotten about. If you look at other cas aircraft at 9.3 GRB almost none of them have fire and forget capability.
Take the buccaneer S.2 for example, it only gets bullpups, and can only carry 2 if you want the countermeasures.
Or the SU-7B, which doesn’t have any kind of guided munition.
Or the Alpha jet A, which also doesn’t get any guided munitions.
Or the Q-5A, ditto the last two.
Or the A-5C, which is at 10.0 and is also ditto the previous mentions.
Or even the AMX, which does get laser bombs, 4 if you use the 1000 pound, 6 of them if you use the 500 pounders, but even then the AMX is at 11.0 in ground.
There is a big difference between the capability that the Yak 130 gets and other aircraft. The Yak 130 gets to lock 4 targets, drop bombs, then run away. Everything else (so long as you don’t cherry pick) either has to play DDR or stay in line of sight for extended periods of time. Not to mention the Yak 130 has more FnF bombs than the A-4 and more than the Hunter has missiles.
Like seriously, how is it fair that the Yak 130 gets to have essentially the same performance as the Hawk 200 minus the range provided by the mavericks, at more than a full br lower than it.
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jakolev jak-130
At 9.0 it might as well be better if you have experience using them. They are both guaranteed frags
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Yes, I already stated
You say that like it’s not a big deal. And the Hawk has counter measures.
1 more than the Israeli one, non-ER and no A2A or CMs, and the Ayit at 10.0 can carry 5 F&F A2G weapons, 3 of which are AGM-65s AND 2 AIM-9D/Shafrirs. Do you actually think the Yak-130 should be a higher BR than that? It could be the same as the Ayit if it got it’s wing tip CM pods.
But again, they can ALL go up or the Yak-130 can stay 9.3/ .7
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One puts you in danger and one does not
Same exact loadout as A-4E at the same BR.
Stinger missiles easily deal with them.
@XiEE
A-4E isn’t Russian…
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comparing MCLOS missiles with F&F bombs that can be launched from very far bcs the yak130 has very good performance?
Isnt the lock range 6km? I still don’t see what the point in arguing about this. Both weapons at that br range are a guaranteed kill. The yak will go to 9.3 br sooner or later since it matches the a4e
Cuz its russian and also the thing is subsonic so therefore it cant go up
totally unrelated note, a-10 is 12.0 in GRB