See that would be interesting, but it would be upped in BR which is fair
yes, it would likely be placed at 12.0, but it would be able to perform just fine at that BR.
I think the big reason that make the Yak unpopular, is that itβs after the Yak-38M, and that branch has been a dead-end for a while now.
It was a nice alternative to the MiG-29 before the SMT and Su-27 made their way to the game, but now itβs kind off lost the edge in radar performance, and weapon quality. Between being a dead-end, and now offering little more than quirks in the face of actual performance, it did fall off.
R-73s would somewhat upgrade it, but since itβs already a pretty theoretical plane, Iβd rather see them on a second one with some upgraded equipment and armament in order to fill out the branch before it goes mad and we get naval MiGs and whatnot down there