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Are you gonna address my point or just gonna keep avoiding it?
I am not gonna adress your point - go to the/create a topic for A6M zero and stop spamming here
Read.
What is your problem? What do you want?
I struggle with pragmatic communication, have audio processing issues and general deficits associated with neurodivergence and I am able to understand what point Percussion is making.
You claimed that Yak-9K is fine at 4.3 in GRB because “it has unique capabilities and we shouldn’t nerf it just because of that.”
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Therefore it follows that if we take the zeros - awful top speed, bad dive decceleration, bad high-speed acceleration (but good low speed acceleration) and compare them to peer aircraft then we can justify moving them down to 3.0 where they’d fit right in.
Nevermind that they have a field of excellence - low-speed turnfighting, stall-fighting.
That’s just something that is different and has unique capabilities.
Also.
I genuinely don’t understand this point.
Does a yak-9K have weaknesses? Sure.
So does the zero and the spitfire.
Bf109s can counter yak-9k the same way they counter zeros and spits.
If the bf109 does not use the same approach as it does with zeros and spits, I feel the yak-3k is competetive using its roll rate with german and american props.
What A2A capability do you consider “as other fighter of that BR”?
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Cannon that doesn’t require god eye to aim at plane? I mean I can nest an NS-37 or 37mm M1 on a plane bbut not everyone got that talent and my talent to put big caliber gun dies at jet BR.
High skillfloor does not make a vehicle bad. It’s also quite agile (roll rate), so getting that gun on target does not rely on making high-aspect snapshots.
all im saying is.
not everyone can make god instrument work. i’m shit with XP-50
From my own experience although i haven’t flown it that much since i prefer UT version of Yak-9, the K variant has pretty poor acceleration and weak engine. On top of that armament is very lacking for air to air combat.
Ofc it doesn’t matter as much if you know how to aim the 45, but you should be expected to throw away a few rounds (i’d say at least 5 and probably even more than half of it if you don’t aim as well) of your very limited 45mm ammo supply in each a2a engagement since a single 12,7 can’t do much.
And don’t get me wrong i think Yak-9K deserves to go up in GRB a bit, but definitely not to 6.0 as author of the post has suggested
Oh boy, wait until you hear about the Pe-3, or about any bomb above 500kg.
29rds of 45mm APHE has a lot more killing potential than a 500kg bomb. 3 shots per kill is GENEROUS and that still puts you at 10 kills without reloading.
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Count in all the potential misses and all the ammo you waste in air2air engagements since you ain’t shooting anything down with 12,7. You also need to account for being more exposed to SPAA due to flying in straight lines all of the time.
Although Yak-9K could use slight BR increase, it’s not anything outrageous. It onky wrecks havoc when you allow it to.
No more than with bombs, and you get the benefit of being able to stay much further away since you don’t need to be almost on top of someone to bomb them.
If you have a somewhat competent teammate in a fighter or decent SPAA coverage you can keep doing CAS, but even then the 9K isn’t bad at all against aircraft. You will still have much more killing potential than other aircraft even after a dogfight.
Oh, it’s just a conicidence, that you have never, ever played any yak plane, yet you keep talking about it
get some experienec first little bro, your opinion is discarded as you lack necessary knowledge about the topic you want to discuss
With Bombs you are not even clsoe to being as exposed as you are with guns. I don’t deny Yak-9K needs to go up a bit, but this is sheer nonsense.
If you have bomb sight you can just simply stay away out of AAs range entirely and even if you don’t, as long as you are any competent, you can drop bombs from altitude of over 500m and you don’t even need to fly directly at the said AA to do so, making you much harder to hit.
And if you happen to have unguided rockets like F4U-4B for example it’s even simplier.
Gun CAS is in fact the most vulnerable type of CAS to SPAA.
Since you often dive from high altitudes and try to keep being as high as possible, cover from your own SPAA won’t be of much use unless your teammate is one of those hardcore Wirbelwind mains which refuse to play anything other than Wirbel or Ostwind 2.
With fighter coverage you can avoid threat from other planes, but AA will be just as dangerous as ever
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There are zero fighters with a bomb sight.
Takes way more skill than pointing your nose at them and clicking.
Which again, like others have pointed out, means the -4B is UNABLE to engage competent air threats for as long as it keeps those rockets. The 9K never has to ditch its 29rds of 45mm APHE.
Russia gets some of the best SPAAs at these BRs.
Yeah, I guess. It’ll be a lot nicer for people to make reasonable counter-arguments like this fella rather than asking what drugs I use.
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The game should not be as enjoyable for the loser as for the winner. War thunder is a competitive game. There should be a large incentive for people to win. One of the main reasons why I was and am still against anything that increases rewards for losing games.