The evidence being…?
Thank you for your reply, as I do not have the Yak141 yet, probably in about two weeks.
The RWR is what concerns me. I have one plane, that is very good, the Persian Tomcat, but its drawback is its terrible RWR, as it spends a lot of time at altitude. That being said, how is the Yak 141 for a pilot who doesnt care about airkills? I have over 10,000 airkills in game and so airkills are not everything to me anymore. I just enjoy flying my accumulated planes, just to see what they can do.
Do you have the Yak 141? And if so, is it an enjoyable plane to fly?
Because I will be quite honest, I have a number of planes, and I have in my stable a few number of what I call “Killer Planes” when I want to be serious and am feeling aggressive.
Is the Yak 141 survivable in a good pilots hands? WT is not my main hobby as it used to be.
And so Im just curious, Is the Yak 141 decent? Because I will fly a plane 50 or so times just to see what it will do in different scenarios, I am past airkills mate, does that make sense?
Once I see what it does “in game” and then I will take it out to fight.
Statistics do not mean anything to me, regarding airkills, If Im playing serious I can meet any mate in game in one of my planes and give good battle. Airkills and k/d ratio, Im well past that, I dont need to measure anymore.
The measurement is over, thats why I fly my planes in battle for quite a few flights to see what the plane does…lm 82nd Airborne, Panama, Iraq, and Afghanistan, I just want to know what the plane does.
The Yak-141 is really good, excellent flight performance, good radar, HMD, good missiles, enough countermeasures for the br. The RWR is kinda mid, but nothing too different from what you see at the br anyway, so it’s fine, the main drawbacks imo are a small amount of gun rounds and only 4 air to air missiles with a lack of good IR missiles. But if you use your gun carefully and your missiles carefully, you can avoid the lack of weaponry somewhat, but it’s not as big of a deal as it sounds. It is a 9/10 jet imo.
The Yak-141 is way better than any Russian jet past 12.7 in terms of competitiveness at it’s br. It is a shame jets like the Mig-29SMT and Su-27SM are not as good as it.
That sounds pretty good, thank you for your reply to that. Im not looking for an exactly “OP plane” just a plane that can come into battle and not suffer from any bad characteristics developed by the devs
A consistent plane
It’s a very consistent jet, you can do quite well in it. It doesn’t have any major flaws.
Thank you, I was just wondering, it seems to have everything, but I will have to question a pilot itself untill I fly it in game
I’ve flown it a lot, it’s one of my favorite jets.
Yes it’s russian bias not that you lack the skill or anything else. The last part is correct
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Evidence? You can open the internet and see for yourself 😂
I have the yak-141. It’s an ok plane because of its BR that more frequently lets you club premium noobs that don’t know how to fly, but it has an identity crisis due to its armament. It is terrible at BVR because it simply lacks the missile supply to seriously compete in BVR duels that involve both parties taking defensive measures against long range launches while they jockey for position. It only carries the TWO 27ERs. The 27ER would be great for BVR IF it carried american quantities of them.
The 141’s RWR is worse than the F-14A’s RWR. The 14A’s RWR may not be able to fingerprint everything but it at least tells you precisely where the missile is coming from so that you can precisely notch. SPO-15 gives you no information about the enemy plane and it only tells you the direction of the enemy attack down to the precision of a few big pie slices.
Compared to russia’s other planes, the 141’s flight model is the best for dogfighting. Especially if you master VTOL tricks. However the 141 is held back at close ranges due to an absence of missiles that perform well at close ranges. R-27’s are terrible at dogfight ranges, and the R60M is obsolete at this BR. The plane SHOULD be equipped with R-77 and R-73 but gaijn just lets the plane languish. When you get to the point where you’re going for gun kills the 141 is russia’s best plane for scoring gun kills.
i was talking single plane of course, alot of missiles are drastically underperfoming if we consider dual plane, im fairly sure r73 can go up to 70 gs dual plane
9.13 has support for 27ER out of the factory and 9.12 needs a data update but can fire 27ER, another false assertion.
You must play NATO
If I only played NATO, I wouldn’t be calling for a buff to the 29, genius 😂🤣 Now go read the 29’s flight manual, assuming you can read and this is not someone else replying for you 💀
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The Persian Tomcat is funny to me, because going against “BR 13 pilots” I still knock off one or two at the start of the match. Its because I get the plane up to 1200 km/hr launch Fakours at pilots who are cruising low on TWS and if you match the Tomcats speed with the mass of the Fakours…well you know the rest. Would you believe Ive never been killed by a Fakour/Phoenix, only when Ive been flying a Varient of the Tomcat with its terrible RWR! I know myself, if I look at the opening lineup rolling down the runway, if I see Tomcats in battle, I just turn 90 degrees a couple of times and all the Phoenix spam locks are broken, but we have a lot of noobs who fly straight into them like lemmings. The r27er is a totally different character, and so I appreciate your reply. I certainly cannot go to the “Information” tab anymore, because its like a Google Review or Facebook “Like”. This game is catering to that now I guess, and so thank you for your assessment of the Yak141, it seems like a plane that I can make work, I have over 10,000 airkills and so Im not statistically driven anymore, I just like the challenge of figuring out how to make a certain plane work in game, does that make sense? Thank you
Thats how I have my fun now, figuring out how to make planes that perhaps have problems, do well, my grind is over, I have most every plane I want, and so Im able to enjoy the fruits of my past success, if you will. Good Luck mate and thank you for your assessment.
There was a time I used to watch YouTube videos and the like and I couldnt figure out why my US radar missiles were not working. LOL, but then finally I realized you cant go on Real World activity, but it is how the devs of this game develop the Physics. It seems to me that in the last 30 years NATO aircraft destroy everything they come across,…take the F15 for example, undefeated in air combat. It just took a while for Gaijin to catch up, Oh before a year ago, there was definitely a Russian bias, or eastern block nod…can you see the game changing, I think they started to notice they were losing some good US money
You can ask them to model f15 BRs so it only faces su17s and su22s and a rare mig-21, so it will be on par with your reality
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That is what people don’t understand, the F-15 got it’s record by killing basically entirely third gen aircraft. That’s not to take away from how good it is, but like, the 100+ kills to 0 is not against stuff at it’s level, or even close.
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It is also fiction. Look into Bekka Valley, the total Syrian losses to all causes, including friendly fire, crashes, can’t match the Israeli claims.
But, they had a very formidable battle! They hit 21bis and 21PFM with AIM-7M! So dramatic, so powerful! And the Syrians? Not even R-60M.
Well of course assuming they were not shooting 23BN. But! An opponent with only guns, against an Su-27, that’s very fair.
“To boldly lie where no truth has gone before!”
F-15 mains, probably.
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Calling them useless is going a bit too far, but fox1’s like the AIM-7F/27ER were not the core of the meta. They were just a tool for punishing anyone that tried to do a high yo-yo or something to cut their turn radius down by climbing in their turns. The only planes that were routinely making high altitude BVR attacks were tomcats with phoenixes. Most of the phoenixes would miss but they were the only ones routinely trying to play at high altitude. Them and premium wallet warrior noobs that hadn’t gotten the memo yet.
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