Lol, you cant be serious?
The Duck has horrible flight performance and its not at all tanky, even slight damage can increase the drag that you crash.
Oooh yeah, you were one of the rage baiter here, forgot.
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Have you even played the duck? It barely flies as it is. Any slight damage makes it fall out of the sky.
What you are looking for is actually lack of proof it had the APHE. Proof of something not existing is different than no proof of it existing.
Unless you use full real controls its as easy as point and click.
Wow there is a whole <10 tanks of the hundreds in game that the yak has to actually aim to kill. While the rest can just be pointed at and exploded with a random shot.
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You don’t need to be tanky if you have a pretty decent flight model that can go toe to toe with german and american fighter planes when used right in the 4.0-5.0 BR range (ironically, it might do better vs late german props if they play its game than earlier ones. The 109 F-4 easily out-dogfights it while the 109 G-14 and K-4 don’t.)
Obviously the K-4 and G-14 can just… spaceclimb if they see a Yak-9K. OTOH, this is 109s with stick & rudder (so able to pull 16.9 AoA, but ideally 15.0 AoA vs RB controls where they can only pull 12.0 AoA. Meaning, 109 F-4 goes from pulling like 23 deg/s to like 18 deg/s in GRB.)
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Being tanky doesn’t mean shit when you fly like a brick and fall out of the sky if a single 7.62 bullet hit one of your engines.
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ignoring all the avantages it has just to trash talk about me
Yes, and it’s good, the only downside is the bad A2A weaponry it has (2 7.92mm) and maybe the huge recoil of the 75mm cannon.
For it’s BR it’s extremely tanky, even 12.7mm struggle to do serious damages to the fuselage, only shots to the tail or control surfaces are a decent way to take it down.
I couldn’t find data about it having APHE just it not having APHE.
If there’s not proof of each one then it would need to remain as it is rn. Btw it would be trash without APHE, Yak-9T would be a lot better in that case.
It isn’t, u don’t have metric lines like tank sights to aim correctly, u rather have to do ranging shots or be really close to the target, and that consumes time/valuable ammo.
I would want u to show me how many tanks the Yak can one shot at 5.7 and 6.7, cuz at least for me it takes more than 3 shots most of the time.
Wow, another trash talker ignoring all the advantages i just goddamn said, skipping straight up to insult me cuz he wants and going against the rules.
Better at tanking SPAA shots, tell me how much can the Yak tank without ripping a wing with a few shots to one.
You don’t have to tank shoots from SPAA to begin with
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Wdym
When You use Yak-9K, You can destroy SPAA outside of its Effective range
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!!!???
Sure and the Duck can do the same, even better cuz it’s cannon was ripped apart from an actual long range designed tank.
Have You actually used both?
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Yes? Somebody just leaked my stats here.
There’s something called:
- Flying from a very high angle (45 degrees minimum, 60 degrees too. 90 is likely too steep with how easily yaks rip though unless you slip which messes up aim)
- Flying very quickly (never go under 450 km/h)
- Jinking (wiggle yourself going in until it’s time to line up the strafe)
All of which the Yak-9K can do much better than the duck.
The above 3 work quite excellently in Il2: Great Battles combat box for attacking airfields and anti-air covered factories with my P-47 and P-51s.
(and for the Fw 190 dora that vulched me last night on take off. Guy was basically a mosquito buzzing around at like 550 km/h dodging shots like it was the matrix. Took down 2 C-47 paratrooper planes before they took off and crippled my P-51D-15 as I was taking off and then wrecked some hangars)
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The problem would be
- Too many SPAAs or heavy targets with amazing roof armor.
- SPAAs with good cannons/going too fast and crashing due to not leaving the dive early enough.
- Taking too long lining up the shot, and once u do one it’s not going to be easy pitch up without the SPAA targetting u much better.
I do all of these, but the Yak-9K is still not that easy to play, much less the Hs 129 B-3.
That’s just a matter of practice.
I can do it in Il2. You can do it in WT just fine.
Literal moment I started pulling out from my dive. Sweet 7G pull-out almost skimming some trees.
Roof is more often than not thinner than side armour.
Practice.
I can do it in Il2, you can do it in WT just fine.
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It quite simply is not. The gun is good sure but the plane itself? utter dogshit. Underpowered engines, wack flight model, it just flies like a brick.
No. If there is not proof of it having APHE we don’t have to prove it did not have it. If I look in my pantry and I don’t find any tomatoes I don’t have to then find evidence of me not having tomatoes. It’ s just not how that works
Whatever. It was fine before they added it and it only had HE. It does not have to be effective at killing tanks to be a good plane. And similarly the inability to kill tanks does not make it a bad plane.
The gun is still a fucking laser that is way too acurate and thus not hard to aim at all.
Skill issue then or what? Any tank that is not enormous with very spread out crew can be oneshot. I also was not talkin about oneshots, I was talking aboutyou complaining the tiger 2 roof is too thick. So moot point
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Only cannon CAS comin close to the yak-9K FM and aphe usage is the F.C.20 Bis at 2.0 (could be 2.3 or even 2.7 tbh) and the Ki-45 Otsu.
Both are autocannon 37mil
but none are as common because:
1- both are rank I, you can’t farm daily tasks, special tasks or events w them
2- The nation’s tanks aren’t the top notch of their BRs
3- Both from Minor nations
4- 90% of tank players only know about turnfights, both of these don’t turn well.
5- Uncapped aphe, performance falls as soon as any incline is present
6- firerate is still pretty slow and shootin once creates a lot of kickback, since the cannons aren’t shaft mounted, the recoils moves the aircraft’s nose.
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9k one shoot T29 at 7.0 so…
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You know that with Yak-9K You can destroy Tiger II H, Ferdinands, Jagdpanthers and even Jagdtigers?
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yes? i have been destroy them all the time, the problem is that they have a really thick roof (40mm is kinda too much).