From what I understand it could historically be used on the Yak-38s.
Would giving them R-60Ms and maybe moving them up be a bad idea? I used to love flying the thing but it just feels awful nowadays.
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It would be an awful idea.
Giving it R-60Ms would push it to 10.0, where it still has hopeless flight performance and zero flares.
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Would it really be 10.0 worthy? It flies like a brick and is out ran by everything.
You still have to get pretty close with the R-60M and at that point you are pretty much a sitting duck. Having the all aspect would kind of just put you on equal ground with jets trying to head on you.
With R-60Ms it would be. The missiles and it’s speed aren’t that bad to only have it be 9.7 with all aspect missiles.
It would be a good idea as it would mean no longer fighting Yak-38 in 8.3s.
I sincerely doubt that. The speed is nothing special, even at 9.3 and you would still need to get to someone with 2-2.5km to guarantee a hit
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 8.3 match in Yak-38. You see 10.0s nearly every single match.
It is probably the fastest purely subsonic plane in the entire game, and will stay at 0.97-0.99 mach in a straight line at any reasonable altitudes. 2-2.5km is very easy to do, even at 9.7 if you play cautiously and carefully. It also isn’t fun to face a plane that has 4 free kills against flareless planes if you don’t have any flares.
I’ve had quite a few full downtiers, and most of them have ended with me getting 3-4 kills because of the R-60s.
Unless there is a variant that had both flares and R-60Ms, they should not come to the game on it.
10.3 instantly
Being the fastest subsonic at that tier isn’t really the grandest achievement, like you are still sub sonic, turn like a bus and no air breaks or anything really helpful. Getting the drop on the yak-38 is not a hard feat at all.
RNG gods are much kinder to you it seems, I don’t can’t remember the last time I didn’t see a 9.7/10.0 game in the yak-38. I wouldn’t mind flares on this thing.
No way is it equal to the A-10 even with 2 more missiles.
The A-10 is my go to grinder for kills and the like when I wanna turn off my brain.
Still all-aspect missiles that cannot be kinematically dodged and there is just too much without flares.
You’d have to fly into the range of them for any actual danger. We have the F3H at 9.3 and it’s not an issue. I think 9.7 with R-60Ms would be fine, but even if it is a nightmare the thing can go to 10.0 in the worst case.