Yak- 130: as usual, Russia is ahead of it's time ... just in WarThunder

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A-4 Has fire and forget bombs that actually track tanks. Better all around capability, and has defensive A-A weaponry.

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That “evil plane” constantly getting bullied by Rapier, lmao.

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If you havent started dodging after the first missile has hit you then that is on you. Takes 2-4 rapiers to take down anything at the moment

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Almost no one is dodging Rapier, if it launched at 9.0-9.5 kilometres away from target (only Su-25 and A-10 kinda expecting that, LWS?) and i mostly get normal crits and sometime fatals by that move.

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Given it’s max range is about 6-7km. I doubt you are doing anything to something 10km away

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Target at 10km → launch → target on 6.5-7 km at the moment of impact.

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Even then. The missile has lost a lot of energy and the need to aim quite accurately to do any meaningful damage means that Id usually wait for the target to be sub 8km away, especially if its a slower subsonic aircraft. Also massively reduces their time to react.

So the aircraft is 5-6km away at the time of impact, but at most 7-8km away at launch

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You can just fly low and then pop up at close range with s13o or kab500kr. So they have very small time to react and die.

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I dodge Rapiers all the time. That being said it’s easily the most dangerous SAM at that BR.

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You didn’t notice the irony in the title it seems.
Let me explain it to you:

  • “ahead of it’s time”: meaning put it (YAH130 a 90s plane) in the same BR as a plane from 50-60s
  • and i specified after “ONLY IN WARTHUNDER”
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I’ve been playing it (A4E) lately and seems like the walleye seems to not do any or very little damage now?! Game after game, even on the thin plated light tanks I got a full on face hit on TAMS/Stingrays and not even damaged? Wtf is wrong with the servers Gaijin? On Russian tanks I may get some tracks or so.
In the meantime Yaks get pinpoint accuracy with 3+ bombs 3+ kills on a single dive consistently.
Albatros another real ISSUE as well.
The problem I see is that everything is still based on the original battle ratings spread from 15 years ago, so the disease is the original BR design being stuck with.