This is the CAS problem as a whole, not just this plane.
You just shouldn’t be able to spawn in it so easly
Doesn’t change the fact that only Yak-9UT has the capabilites as it has.
No matter what other CAS I will spawn, it won’t be able to do as much
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If they leave me completely alone? Yeah, i probably won’t do as much in any other plane. If they don’t i will be able to do more in many other planes, like TU-2 or F4U-4B
The issue is, You won’t be.
With Yak-9UT I’m able to fight planes and all ground units that spawn. With Tu-2 I’m mostly just a bomber and Your capabilities are restricted to bombs and few 20mm ammo.
With F4U-4B You are able to perform fighter duties after You drop the bombs and get rid of rockets, not like Yak-9UT that will still have ammo. Not to mention that after dropping bombs and rockets You won’t be able to destroy as many ground units as You can still destroy with Yak-9UT
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With TU-2 i operate at altitudes most GRB planes won’t chase me after at. And with 5/7 bombs i will have more than enough for the entire enemy team.
With F4U-4B you just need to get rid of 2 bombs, you are still a very decent fighter with those few HVARs underneath.
I also forgot about Do 335-B2 which is also amazing CAS around this BR.
And again, the biggest downside of Yak is vulnerability to AA. No other plane listed above has this downside to such extent. To make best use of your guns you often need to get at least pretty close to the target and to fire at it you need to fly in a straight line
The Yak-9 is far smaller than the -4B or 335. It is inherently harder to hit.
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It is really not harder to hit. Size of the aircraft doesn’t matter as much when firing an SPAA. It’s way more about predictability of it’s path. And gun CAS by design is forced to fly very predictable when attacking. It balances out by far the greatest kill potential this type of CAS has
Who is flying Yak-9K in this video against whom?
Is there a tracked Yak-9K somewhere? Is it overperforming? Can it take off?
There’s like 0 posts by “Habby” in this topic. So how is some random teamkilling some other random relevant to Yak-9K?
EDIT: My bad, there were some, a LOT of posts ago.
It matters alright. Be it vs SPAA or in a plane on plane scenario. Hence f.e. BI is almost impossible to hit as it’s like 50% of what normal plane is. It’s like trying to shoot a mosquito with a pistol
Of course it matters. If you are shooting something huge, there is a much higher margin of error allowed vs when shooting a tiny plane. The Yak-9 is tiny.
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As long as you properly predict plane’s path given enough shots you will hit it. And most AAs only need 1 or 2 hits to entirely cripple enemy aircraft.
And it just so happens that planes flying low, in straight paths and spend a long time over the battlefield are by far the most vulnerable. If i have to choose between a TU-2 at over 1km altitude doing circles over the battlefield and a Yak-9 doing nose dive on the enemy and then going straight up, often getting pretty slow at the end of regaining altitude i will always choose the Yak, since it’s much easier to hit. It’s not any rocket science. It doesn’t matter that TU-2 is huge and Yak is half it’s size. It is still easier to hit.
And if TU-2 wants to kill me, he just needs to more or less approximate my location, fly over at 1,5km altitute, go into bomb sight, press space once and immediately turn away. If yak wants to kill me, he needs to commit and fly directly at me becoming the easiest target in existance.
It is not A2A combat where regardless of type of plane, all are at more or less same distance from you when you fire. Larger planes more often than not will stay away from you if you are an AA, so their size doesn’t matter as much. In same circumstances they will obviously be easier to hit, but that’s not what happens.
If your aim is perfect and enemy will not change his course, you’ll hit every time.
How simple and briliant.
I guess when playing 37-40mm SPAA you just single-click people out of existence, creating a no-fly zone.
ABSOLUTE LEGEND.
Meanwhile in real world - you make a tiniest mistake, you miss. Vs bigger plane - you hit and kill allright.
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Except it’s simply easier to aim at a closer and predictable target than one that is 3 times further away and can do all sorts of maneuvers while still performing it’s CAS role.
This is not ARB and you aren’t a fighter. You can’t just get closer to the enemy you want to kill. You are stationary and larger planes with bombsight will stay away from you. It’s as simple as that.
At same distance larger planes are obviously easier to hit, but this is not what very often happens.
A yak at 500m is much easier to hit than TU-2 at 1,5km
Again, this is about margin of error. If there’s a Pe8 coming straight at me, even if he’s keeping his altitude, in a Duster or Ostwind I can easily slap him out of the sky.
But a tiny, faster Yak9? No chance.
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The thing is PE-8 doesn’t need to come straight at you. A yak does.
And PE-8 doesn’t need to go down to few hundred meters in a straight line to fire at anyone. Yak again does.
Yup. IMO only cursed him AFTER TK but nope, not really, didn’t even know he was there until.
And the thing is, the Pe-8 is a big ass target for fighters and a good picking for SPAA and even for some god-aim tanks.
For fighers? If they get high enough absolutely. For AA? Unless he goes straight at them absolutely no chance.
Nice of you to put me in YT tho. :)
I have been able to kill fighters 1000m up w/ the Zestorer 45. Thats only 4 30mms. And Flakbus, and some other large gunned SPAA undercover TD can kill bombers and that was their role.