why did you quote me?
Oh whoops, I forgot to type that being the fastest prop doesn’t do much for you when your armament is weak. BnZ needs strong armament to do well.
Despite you are on my “special” list:
The 3.3 Hellcat outturns any Yak (so including 4.0 and 4.3 Yak-3s) in the BR range. You don’t have to trust me - just deactivate the instructor you can do this too:
And regarding vertical maneuvers - I wrote that you need some brainpower to use Hellcats:
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Yes, it outturns a Yak. The P-51D-30 also outturns Yaks. But wanna know what those planes can’t do? Go verticle even heavier fighters like the P-47 can beat the F6F by going verticle.
XF5F Skyrocket, are you intending to derail the topic?
There are massive time gap between the first flight of XF5F and F8F.
Nobody calls Spitfire Mk.III and Spitfire Mk.22 are the same Spitfire; the technology used on XF5F or F8F are different
And F8F-1 came out on the FINAL STAGE OF WAR, as you know, for Christ’s sake.
stop quotemining fr
F8F-1 is 5.0 material. not 4.3
Oh wait, I mean XF5U, stupid NAVY designations.
it gets full API-T belts for its four .50 cal machine guns, that rounds damage output is tremendous.
its by no means amazing but thats still not awful with that belt choice
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Well, it’s certainly the weakest armament found at 4.7.
Maybe the G-6 with high drag rounds is also a contender. Yak-9U armament is simply much better.
even the weakest spitfires around that BR at least have two hitsparkos. true.
russian guns around that BR do considerably more damage per round compared to .50 browning ammo too.
ngl. the MG151 hits like a damn truck (even tho its underperforming, like all non russian canons are), the velocity just sucks.