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[Citation needed.]
Actually, I have a counter source to that claim.
Page 30 and 31 go over the concerns with sand ingestion in the desert. In a SANDSTORM the crews had to clean their filters every 15 minutes, not every minute. Outside of the most extreme weather in the Persian gulf war, they needed to clean the air filter every few hours. And even then, deserts with coarser sand posed no problem for the M1. That’s significantly better than “firing the gun in bursts tended to damage the engine coolant lines due to excessive recoil”.
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Oh…Is bro leaking a doc? (joke)
Har har.
GAO reports are generally public info though.
This one in specific does not contain any restricted or classified info, just reports on reliability, general performance and crew feedback on their vehicles that participated in the Gulf war.
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I mean , idk about you guys. But I don’t remember Leopard 1 get one shot by a WW2 fighter. But that just me , maybe I need to read more about Cold War
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The reason why we needa change this beast of Yakolev
I remember many years ago when I was in a match with another Leopard and we were simply shoot up by two SU-6 with 37mm guns. Couldn’t even defend us with that crappy MG 3 that doesn’t even elevate enough to hit planes with.
It’s pretty stupid that you can rush a cap and then immediatly spawn a flying tank destroyer.
So unless you’re team already started the match with some SPAA, that tactic is just always going to work out, unless you get beaten to the cap rush.
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Hmm no?
Both options will be annihilated if there is a single decent CAP player.
You do understand the game time is roughly x30 real speed? Think of the speed in which you fix parts on your vehicle?
If You don’t see the difference there is no point having a discussion with You.
It is good that gaijin started giving it higher B.R.
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It’s hard to see any points with you, you’re extremely disagreeable with anyone, since you have what? 30k matches. So you believe only you are the one whom has an idea of how to play vehicles.
You literally mentioned before, that despite any vehicle, you know how to play it immediately, perfectly…
Around 65.
Sorry but again try to stay on topic as all the things were already discussed here.
It is always better to be able to fight the air and Yak always have a chance. Not to mention that no other plane in game has the same capabilities around that B.R.
Gaijin gave it higher B.R. already, I hope it goes to around 5.3
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…and how many times is there a good CAP player in GRB, may I ask?
People will operate on arguments like this, get used to it.
You can have over 5 K/D in a thing and tell them it is unbalanced but they will defend it to their grave.
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Hear ye hear ye, the lord ULQ has spoken!
People play other games than WT, 65k matches means your either a bot or only play one game.
We’ve already had the bomb vs cannon discussion, and if you are as good as you claim, you should have absolutely no problem being able to use bombs to greater affect than your cannon.
(This is in relevant to effectiveness, if you couldn’t tell).
It feels suspicious it’s both your favorite vehicle, and you want it to go up in br. Almost like confirmation bias no?
How have I not been on topic? You took it off topic there guy. When you said “there’s no point in having a discussion”
If my point was that bombs are more effective that would be the case, but as I have said 45mm is far more capable and effective and there is no other air vehicle at the B.R. of Yak-9 that is as good as it is.
It is not my favorite vehicle, but as a normal person I have used it before I started talking about it in order to check how good it is and what it is capable of. I propose You should do the same as You will actually be able to understand the vehicle before discussing it.
I will just quote:
And in the end:
As it was already discussed about Yak-9 anti air capabilities in the topic. Just saying “but someone good in the air can deal with it” is not a point worth discussing as it can’t be checked in any way.
What we know is that copared to other vehicles that are used anti-ground, the Yak-9 is both good at destroying ground targets and air ones compared to other vehicles used for the same reason.
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It was your favorite the last time I checked your profile. Roughy when this thread started. Which is suspicious.
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I play on console, it is far harder to be far more accurate with a controller, and before you bring up M&K, that’s just a no. Being generally good at the game, when I test flew the Yak, TU-1, and SU-8 in the past, pretty much only light tanks were super susceptible to the 45mms. (These tanks would die to 20mm as well easily). Mediums could be killed, depending on range and angle. Heavies are generally a long shot.
I think my favorite kill in my Tu-1 was skipping rounds off the ground beneath a Tiger H1 and blowing it up. (Took 3 rounds to kill his whole crew out of the 10 I fired). -
It wouldn’t give you good data if I, the person with less matches tested that for you with bombs. Because option A: my data grossly out weighs yours, then you could just say I faked it as I assume you would. Option B: since I clearly don’t fly as much as you, the data becomes skewed lower, as you don’t have the same constants. To have actual sufficient data, you need constants, but change the variables.
And how do You know what my favoutire vehicle is? By what I set on my profile?
K.
I play on PC and I’m able to eaisly destroy Tiger II H with 45mm gun.
So You need to trust what I say as I’m more experienced with 45mm and bombs that 45mm is just better.
Sorry but just because someone can’t use vehicle well, doesn’t mean that it is balanced.
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So you just confirmed, that i was right, thanks
You said you don’t fly the 9k.
I admit I mostly fly it SB, not RB.
However, you say CAP can anhiliate it same as a duck or stuka or similar.
I say no. The yak-9k is a pretty competent aircraft in a dogfight due to its very good roll rate and near-stall controls.
Anecdotal and with SB controls, so no instructor limit -
- Bf109G10 dives on my Yak-9K while I was looking ahead to scan for hostiles or maybe attack bombers
- It lands its shots, tearing off half my elevator and horizontal stabilizer. I am now flying a crippled yak-9k
- I initiate a break turn
- I begin rolling and pulling as much as I can and rapidly changing the direction of my roll until…
- and proceed with scuffed rolling scissors after I see him meet my “reversal criteria” (in other words: he’s in a position where he’ll overshoot and travel a longer path than I do)
- We make a few head-on exchanges trading positions
- I gain the controlling position and it turns into a rolling two circle fight with my sitting in lag behind the Bf109G14 and gaining angles.
- Bf109G14 gets third party’d as I start to prepare to shoot. I get third party’d by a zero thinking I’m an american aircraft carrier
The video is posted earlier in this thread. I am not linking it again lest I get flagged for spamming my channel.
Now.
The pilot I fought must suck, right?
Might be a stat-padder. Might be having had a bad day, but they in theory have substantial experience and results to say they’re decent at their plane.
With this in context, are you confident a yak-9k is impotent and bad at defending itself in a dogfight?
I’m just an average pilot with, at the time… around 4-5 hours flying yak-3 and yak-9k put together in SB?
I’m nowhere experienced enough with the Yak-9K to justify that fight as me being capable of pushing it to its performance limits, nor am I generally amazing for it to transfer. I’m average. I could reverse a bf109G14 in a crippled yak-9k.
She’s a good plane. She’s not amazing. She’s not a spitfire or a zero or a pyörrömerski or something like that. The 29 ammo does mean you need a high skill floor to do well with her in gaining good shots and prevents you from making snap-shots-of-opportunity like you can with the Mustang Mk Ia or even yak-3.
But she’s not helpless nor defenceless. She puts up one hell of a fight.
Also she’s not better than Bf109G10. If the other pilot extended away, I’d have probably lost after they re-engaged. But she can fight back, and that means she’s a competent plane.
As an aside
Literally why I went to fly it in ASB to see how she performs before commenting on its A2A capabilities (I was confident of its A2G capabilities)
As for the console part - GSB is my only advice. GSB removes the aiming advantage mouse aim has, but alas rotations mean you only get to fly ever so often.
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