i did, and these flying the yak3u just keep pitching up onto people flying 890kmh and still managing to catch up because as a russian plane it doesn’t care about energy differentials, and as a yak3u, it cares even less about it. Yak3u is pretty much untouchable. 680kmh on the deck, two of the hardest hitting guns in the entire game (as a whole, harder than defa and harder than ho155) and very good high speed handling. I’ve reversed spitfires and sea furies in it constantly.
Just drag it up to 4000 meters and watch it asphyxiate. They are only scary when you play down at their area.
I’ll just leave this here.
what you think i haven’t played the Yak 3U? I know damm well what its strengths and weaknesses are. and mid altitude performance is not one of them
Spitfire IX LF is a good counter to the Yak-3U.
It just depends on your playstyle as to which one you’ll prefer.
The problem with every Yak in the game: unrealistic energy retention. They can turn-fight horizontally and not lose energy. Not to mention they can pull 20G turns with no damage.
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that and the disgusting low altitude performance, you can chase down p51h5s that are too braindead to climb