Are you confident you are hitting with the Mg151/20 shells and not the machine gun? I’ve gotten angry before at just how tanky some planes were, went into the replay and watched it and saw my 20mm rounds flying past the target harmlessly while my mgs were hitting.
The cannon is often on the bottom of the nose, not on the top. This can lead to scenarios, especially without vertical targetting, where you land hits with the machineguns but not the cannon.
Stepping the frames 1 by 1, around 3 shells hit the engine pod.
The bottom tracer is the mg151/20. In this screenshot, it was fired with 300m convergence vertical targetting, so all 3 tracers impacted on the same point. Without VT or outside of convergence range, the mg151/20 will start falling behind the machinegun bullets.
Depending on what belt you use (stealth vs universal vs air targets), your 20mm cannon either fires 785 m/s rounds (stealth) or 720 m/s (air targets, universal). Meanwhile your 7mm fires 905 m/s on universal. The two also have significantly different ballistics so at longer ranges diverge greatly.
My experience with Bf109F4/Bf109G14 has been that if I shoot a plane where my guns converge + vertical targetting and I have proper lead AND ping is ~60-80 AND shoot enough so that I fire off 1 HEI shell in my belt and not just IT/AP-I - the plane I shoot turns into a fireball provided it has a fuselage fuel tank or I hit the engine.
Ta-152H has no machineguns.
And I routinely watch replays to see what the hell happened. I was kinda surprised that after a really rich burst I gave that Yak-3U it just continued his maneuver, luckily the fire did the job.
MK108 to wingtip does not destroy the wingtip.
2 shvak shells mid-wing and entire wing is gone. That’s how the game works nowadays.
Berezin will also de-wing your aircraft if you land 2-3 HE bullets from 800m away.
I would gladly switch 4 Hispanos on Wyvern for 3 Berezins. And I would gladly switch 2xMG151/20 175 RPG + 1xMK108 with 90 RPG on Ta-152H for 1 Type 99 Mk2 with 170 shells or for 2 Shvaks with 270 ammo total.
Japanese and Soviet guns are just that good nowadays.
You yourself said it should be 6.0 or 6.3 and it is 6.0 as of now.
I’d say that with amount of uptiers 6.0 ground gets, it is in a fine spot. 6.0 is domain of stuff like Corsair, Bf 109K, Yak-3U or late mustangs and spitfires. Yak-9UT is by far an inferior fighter to all of those.
I mean, around 6.3 it’s still way better than Ta-152C3, Me-262 A1U4, AD-4 etc.
A1H is better but it’s typical pay2win case.
AU-1 may be just as deadly, but again - pay2win + it’s a boat with bombs.
UT based on its ability to kill ground targets can go to 6.7 Ground RB no problem. Which opens up a slot for 5.7 Yak-9K. :)
In Ground RB being an inferior fighter whole being the best attacker doesn’t sound like that much of a problem. Yak-3U can strafe some guys with 15mm top armor and some open tops. And that’s it.
K4 can drop a single bomb.
Ta-152H can’t do shit.
There’s a big price to being a better fighter around that BR. F4U4B is a better fighter while still retaining reasonable ground attack capability. Thing is, F4U4B with bombs is a vastly inferior fighter, while Yak-9UT can dogfight with its full anti-tank load no issue.
And UT is a better ground attacker than U4B.
It will never be better than Me 262 A1 u4. Even if Me’s accuracy wasn’t greatly improved like a month or 2 ago, it was always much faster allowing it to be close to immune to enemy fighters and it always had double the penetration.
Sure RoF and maneuvrability is better on the Yak, but Me 262 surely deserves the higher BR, especially now with improved accuracy.
I wouldn’t say it’s much better than AD-4 either. Sure AD-4 has smaller kill potential, but has an advantage of bomb CAS being generally much easier to use and being less vulnerable to AA.
When it comes to TA idk, i have never played it, but from what i remember it’s not even a dedicated CAS plane so why would it matter? A much better plane to compare Yak to would be Do 335 B-2 which at 5.7 seems to be comparable to Yak in most regards.
Yak-9UT at 6.7 would be a joke of a plane, just like Yak-9K would be at 5.7. How do i know that? Because i used to uptier my Yak-9UT to 6.7 a lot when spading USSR rank IV. It just gets owned by all of the AA in that BR range, let alone fighters.
And yes, being an inferior fighter in GRB makes a difference, because surprisingly people can and do play dedicated fighters in GRB. A single good player in a decent fighter can deny enemy team from having any air support. Yak-9 is already inferior to other fighters at 6.0, at 6.7 it would be no different from a fat attacker.
Pretty sure the discussion is about Ground Battles and the Yak-9K or UT have easily more ground vehicle killing power than most fighter bombers or attackers while maintaining fighter like agility and speed.
The difference between the Yak-9T firing 37mm solid shot is light years apart from the 9K firing APHE.
Dude. Taiwan, be careful. Habby stalked me and followed me into a GRB match and Teamkilled me by strafing my M44 with his pitiful Bf 109 F-4. All he can do is TK cuz he can’t get enemy kills and also can’t beat us in arguments. IMO he talks crap and acts like crap, just spam reporting my messages to hide them. Bet he’s got 10 alts spam reporting me.
He can come after me all he wants, I’m not so obsessed with stats or win rate to really care about another death or a thrown match for a forum argument lol
AD-4, Tu2s, P47 (with bombs and rockets), F8F, F7F, F4U-7 … (and the longer i think about it the more planes i find)… they all can fight pretty well against fighters on low alt and are quite manouvable while still bringing a ton of death to the tankers.
Statisticly (sadly u cant different between ground and air rb), the
Do 335 B2 has a Tank KD of 4.3 and Air KD of 1.35, and the
yak 9k has a Tank KD of 3.42 and Air KD of 0.59, and the USA
AD-4 has a Tank KD of 4.6 and Air KD of 0.77
so statistically speaking… the yak 9k is worse.
so thats that…
i get the point, the yak9K can be killing whole teams… but one not braindead enemy fighter/AA will kill it as it will kill an ad-4 or Do335.
And stuff like AD-4 can also shot hvap that shreds AA into pieces from disctances the AA cant fight. Same for Tu-2s, F4U-7 and so on…
leave the yak9k at 4.0 for air and 4.3 for ground and increase the weapon spread for the 45mm like they did for the german 50mm (they changed it back a few month ago for the 50mm to normal, was barely usable with the nerv)
