When did i compare PE-8 to Yak? I only ever compared TU-2 to Yak, which is a fair match.
PE-8 was only brought up by someone trying to deny the Yak being much easier target for AA. And it just so happens that staying over battlefield for longer contributes to that
You can.
Step 1. Find range with the super good rangefinder
Step 2. load the AA HE round
Step 3. Lead and fire and at least 50% of the times the wing or half the crew gets turned into tomato juice.
Oh, you said that the Pe-8 doesn’t dive on you. Just replied to that only.
You find the range, oh sorry, dude is now 40m closer than before because he’s doing 150m/s, shell flies for a second, dude is 80m closer still, shell explodes, dude is 120m from the explosion, gg.
Yeah the absolutely astonishing 8,8 variable time fuse HE rounds. Probably the most useless type of round in the game.
NO, since when the range is far, the limit was 1000-something meter, so no matter how far he is, if he is far enough it hits.
You can always destroy it from range, 45mm is very accurate.
For you, but I like it,
I used the Su-8 and was surprised at what satainic thing that was.
Well maybe you are right, 8,8cm HE-VT isn’t the worst. Russian 76mm HE-VT is the most useless one, 8,8 is 2nd worst
Yak can drop shots from pretty steep angles, even without mouse aim.
As for getting slow on the pull-out -
Doctrine is to dive, level out and change heading at ~700/500 meters and maintain speed and only start pulling out after outside of the “Flak cone”
(to note: this did work out in the re-enactment. I only got shot down when we went for the night version and I flew too low as I couldn’t see anything from high up).
Now of course, gun cas is different and that’s where the APHE comes into play.
In my Mustang Mk Ia and bf109s, I must make a side-on pass to take out sdfkz and similar because the SAP/AP-i shell barely causes any damage and I kinda wanna spray to make sure I hit all crew members. Now, I’m not very good at gun cas in SB, and we’re talking SB but given damage models are the same - it should transfer.
With the yak APHE, which I did use in GRB (back when I was going for battlepass shenanigans and burnt out and gave up.), you could shoot from high aspect, drop 2 shells and get a kill unless it’s a soft skinned vehicle or has weird fighting compartment lay-out. It’s also nose mounted so it doesn’t interfere with air-to-air (air to air I like to have 300m convergence for wing guns, which is obviously too short for gun cas).
I don’t think I’ve died more to planes dropping bombs and catching me as I waited to shoot in the yak-9k than to SPAA.
We are talking about Yak-9UT which faces much deadlier AAs.
Yak-9K going up isn’t even something to discuss. It’s easy 5.0.
A slight change of path won’t help you with Zerstörer or Bosvark pulverizing everything in your approximate direction
Bosvark, maybe. But Zerstorer? I kill those with regular fighter guns and they are trivial to dodge.
Zerstorer runs put of ammo before you are close enough to get hit. And Zerstorer will fire early because you can as well spray and dodge from 1400m away, and with 0 crew protection, HE shells work wonders.
The only way Zerst kills Yak-9K is if it goes full ambush mode. Which means not firing and hoping enemy planes won’t notice a giant RP pinata.
It’s just that easy, pretty much. Giant, unprotected, slow, sand-yellow-colored bus with low RPM guns. Bosvark is more dangerous but it also has a lengthy reload.
You’re right, it should be higher.
Dude. The Zestorer is open top and it doesn’t even have walls like the Ostwinds before it. But it has insae tank-killing abilities tho. (I point, I press gun for 1 sec and there goes the M18.)
To be fair the M18 is a wet paper, you dont need 30mm H-Pzgr. To destroy it, even a Cal. .50 can deal with it, same as a 20mm Pzgr. L’Spur.
Tho, the Ostwind could also get its H-Pzgr. L’Spur.
12mm front is a joke.
I agree that something must be done but I don’t think battle ratings solve the problem.
What if we just made the 45mm gun highly prone to jamming?
