The Yak28B sitting at 9.3 is very weird as it is hardly supersonic and can’t even destroy a base with its bomb load. It also has no advanced systems such as CCIP, and it’s flairs where removed. Another thing it has is a useless chaff modification that gives the player nothing. even if historically inaccurate it should be given flairs and moved to 9.0, it only carries 50 rounds of ammunition that isn’t easy to aim, which means it can only be used to bomb, which it can’t even due to small bomb load, and no way of defending itself.
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Okay try the 9.0 vautour then. The only thing it has is being able to destroy a base.
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AFAIK, You can.
But only with 3000kg FAB-3000 which unlocked at last.
it fights 10.3 a lot which has Aim9Ls and the Yak28B only gets chaff
compared to the Su7B the Yak28B is uselss
Only A-10A(Premium) has 9L in 10.3
Yep. This sucks. Yak-28B had a flare before, and watching A-10A noob wastes 9L while flying it was my fun…
But it got removed because it was historically incorrect.
Only a select few can enjoy that kind of luxury shamelessly.
Most jets are just not allowed to get what they didn’t use in IRL.
And yes. Yak-28B is a bad bomber. I recommend you to stick with IL-28Sh while researching the rest of the rank 6s
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I didn’t go down that line, might have to stick with the Su-25BM to get the Su-7
Hardly supersonic hah hah hah, sounds like you’re coasting at sub 3000 metres, but above that it will reach above supersonic speeds quite easily.
The Hornet’s Sting update allowed it to destroy a base with the bombs being switched to a more powerful one, this change allows it to do so.
Now the removal of flares & ccip really screwed this bird, but if you play say extremely passively it can likely work just as before, but I’m not sure it could go any lower in BR due to its speed.
I’d vote it getting back the flares since there’s a few aircraft with non historical items already even in the BR range, so why even change one but not the other (as already mentioned the F-5C lmao).
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only problem with flying high is the bomb sight is very unreliable, so forced to fly low in order to hit bases with every bomb, might be effective once I get the fab3000, but to be fair there is a few supersonic fighters at 9.0 so I don’t see why the Yak28B couldn’t be 9.0
I’ve done ground past it, just unlock the Su-25 and use it to grind, it’s really good.
It has a bombing computer and is the fastest 9.3 bomber in the game.
It easily defends itself with its two afterburning engines.
All 9.0 bombers in the game are inferior to it.
There are zero supersonic aircraft at 10.3 with AIM-9Ls.
Su-7B is inferior to the Yak-28.
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As long as there was no decompression at 6.0-14.0 it makes no sense to move a single plane down in BR.
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At the actual state of ARB, bombers in this BR range are useless anyway because they have no effect to the battle.
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yak28 has no CCIP and no flairs
most 9.3 fighters either have AAM that can get to the yak28, or they are faster than the Yak28
when you are going down a tech tree wanting to spade everything, simple things such as moving a bomber slightly lower won’t break the game, and it will make the bomber a bit more useable
It no longer has bombing CCIP since the very recent major update.
There is no other 9.3 bomber if we consider ‘in-game classification’, so of course it will be the fastest 9.3 bomber. :/
If we include strike aircraft and fighters, which can bomb as bombers too, it might be faster than the infamous Bucc.
But still, generally Su-7B/MK/KL or F-104C with napalm will reach base faster than Yak-28B
Yes. Yak-28B is better than Vautours after removing the air spawn of Vautours in the ‘Sons of Attila’ update.
That is why Yak-28B is stuck in 9.3BR instead of 9.0.
And Vautour bombers may be 8.3-8.7BR if we consider the interceptor variant of Vautour, which is superior and in 8.3BR.
No offence, but I think it is a blatant lie.
Yak-28B is a barely supersonic jet. Thanks to a weak fuselage and wing which can’t hold enough speed compared to counterparts supersonic fighters(MiG-21 or F-104 for example) in the same BR.
It might be faster than subsonic junks like Vautour or Buccaneer, but it can’t defend itself easily against them.
And things get even worse if we consider they get a higher match and face superior interceptors like Mirage III, T-2/F-1, J35XS.
He didn’t mention that there is a ‘supersonic aircraft with AIM-9L’ in 10.3BR
In the current status of Yak-28B, which has lost her flares. Either Su-25 with R-60M or A-10A with AIM-9L could be a death sentence.
For usage in ARB, I think Yak-28B’s only good point compared to Su-7B is ‘bombsight’, which gives you the slightest comfort.
(Bombing is an easy thing even without CCIP or bombsight, but using them is indeed easier. right?)
In every other aspect, Su-7B was better.
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It seems you only think Yak28 as a bomber and only in uptiers. This thing at 9.0 in a full downtier is untouchable. Even at 9.3 there are only a few planes able to counter it.
It’s 9.3 was correct for it, it now it has chaff only 9. 0 probably would be better, but you’ll have to wait for the next BR change
Gaijin: We failed to get enough stats for balancing Yak-28B, so we will keep it in 9.3BR
(probably, if we consider the current status of Bucc S2 in ARB.)
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Buc s2 is what I’m basing that on. It has 108? Large calibre CMs and is pretty quick. So when the yak28b had flares. It was about right. Now it’s probably a little lower