I didn’t say it was a fair comparison mind you. I think the Yak 3 U is too good. I have already expressed that. I said it’s a more fair comparison. Both perform decently at altitude. Their speeds are also more comparable. I hope you didn’t think I said they were comparable, the yak 3 U is better but the difference between it and the G 10 is smaller than the G10 and base yak 3. Base yak 3 looses too much engine power at higher altitudes and I have no problem killing them in any competitive American or German prop (p51ds and FW190s respectively) if I am given the room to separate and bring them above 4KM high. Just yesterday I dog fought / energy fought a yak 3 at 4KM in my P51D30 and it was clear as day how much he was struggling with engine power.
I’ll admit all the sources I looked at were secondary and online. But I have overwhelmingly seen the M 105 was reliable. I have also seen the M 107 was unreliable so I thought maybe you mixed up the two. Which is why I was asking for a source.
That is what it came off as. “More fair” isn’t saying much when the 3U absolutely has a huge advantage over the G10.
Right now i saw a yak 3u video from DEFYN.
Gezz It can turn 9g without lose much energy. i dont know why yak3u are not 6.0 Br
watch minute 9:09
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All yaks are utterly ridiculous.
The Yak3 series specifically.
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If it wasn’t for the singular 20mm, they’d all be at higher BR’s.
The Yak-1B especially is a real menace at 3.0.
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the yak that somewhat struggles the most is the yak3p and yet it’s not even bad for the BR, it’s the master baiter and deals marvelously against japanese aircraft.
you can win 99% of dogfights in a yak3p.
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Spitfires and j2m’s outdogfight it easily. But still it does win most of the engagements unless you commit to the enemy’s strength; the f8f wins the rolling scissor, the ki84 wins the horizontal and vertical at slow speed, the k4 wins the vertical and can reverse it, the spitfire lf mk9 out turns, out paces, out climbs and out does your yak3p below 500 ias very easily. The yak3p is the master of furballs because it’s a squirmy rat that sweeps in never losing any energy. However it has handling issues that la-7 completely lacks at the expenses of better energy retention and overall more ease of aiming. It’s an amazing aircraft and despite i’m negative in it i’ve gotten back to it and did pretty well in these last matches (most of my deaths were literally reaching no exceed airspeed and crashing back then)
needless to say except the spitfire and the ki84 the yak3 does outdogfight most things it faces. My point on it’s struggle is the rudder issues, it responds later and makes me miss my shots. But tht’s a skill issue.
Rudder issues?
Have you ever flown a p51?
yes, and an f8f/ki84 💀these are worse but at least it’s bad enough to notice
my yak-3 acts weird.
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Gaijin’s BR ratings put a lot of emphasis on firepower and ammo count, of which, Yaks are lacking.
Over the course of this games history, guns have been nerfed/buffed from wet noodles to one shot death lasers.
Currently shvaks are really solid, making the Yaks great to fly.
Could the 3U go to 6.0? sure.
But I guarantee shvaks will get nerfed in the future, and Gaijin wont go through all the planes that mount them and reduce the BRs - just like when they nerfed Japanese 30mm tracer rounds and didn’t reduce planes like the Kikka, R2Y2, J7W1 etc
Thus - play planes that are currently doing well in the BR ratings (Yak 3U) while you can, because the nerfs are always coming…
Yaks have ALWAYS been op. Since day one.
Lf9 easily wins vs yak3u. It is the top prop plane ever probably
You can’t seriously blame yak3u and pretend that lf9 doesn’t exist
Pretty sure the Yak-3U is much faster and a faster plane usually wins a fight, simply because it can always put itself in a higher energy state, particular when there is not much difference in climb rate to bank altitude over speed.
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For 1v1 dogfight there’s A sweet spot for speed vs turning.
Lf hits the sweet spot.
Yak3u leans more into speed but it’s not faster enough to transform it into altitude advantage without shootdown.
Lf using 150 octane is level above yak3u in it’s tech. Its got better boost and it’s full metal. So It’s not a very fair comparison anyway
Try the duels.
yak3u can outrate griffon spitfires in the horizontal and p51h’s in horizontal and vertical. It’s literally untouchable.
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Pretend that lf doesn’t exist
yak3u outpaces lf mk9 and has far better thermodynamics.
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Problem being war thunder is not a racing game but dogfight game
War thunder isn’t a dogfight game either lol like what? Energy and speed have always been king. What makes the 3U so good, and by extension, planes like the P-59, Strikemaster, and Yak-15 so strong is the combination of crazy turning performance and speed, which makes being at an energy disadvantage a death sentence. The LF mk9 turns better and about matches the climb of a 3U, but it’s just too slow to be much of a threat to some of the best superprops.
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