Anyone else frustrated with the Yak-9T?
 

I hate this plane..... Historically accurate or not, the 20mm cannon has horrible recoil and is extremely inaccurate, and there is only ONE machine gun. And the maneuvering is bad too as soon as it gets damaged just a little bit!


Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, or I have no idea what I'm talking about, but seriously! How on Earth did the Russians actually use this plane? I still have to do a bunch more single missions with this plane... I don't see how it is possible.




Now... If I had a Hurricane... ;)

I dont like to fly it either... BUT.. dont let yourself be missled by what is in the hangar article about the 20mm nosecannon. It is in fact a 37mm (historicly accurate and confirmed that it is 37mm by the developpers)

So.. thats a reason to pick it.. it knocks BIG holes:P!

If you actually manage to hit anything, though.

I havent flow it much appart from the campaign...
I will give it a try tomorrow... I think that if you take very short bursts (2-3 cannon rounds..I should be ok ;)

Dont know if you are sqeezing the trigger for 5 seconds?:P but that would indeed create a madness with a 37mm :P.

I'll be back tomorrow on this ... when I have tried it out in MP.. and checked if it has some nice advantages

P.S.
to answer "How on Earth did the Russians actually use this plane?"
It was used against ground targets mostly.. with the 37mm being able to destroy tanks... but.. the 37 should make short work of a plane too.. hopefully not with more than 2-3 hits. If you need more cannon hits than that... its a useless plane :P.. just take the Yak-3 in that case :P


P.P.S
Darn you! now I want to try and fly the 9T for a few games... but I should go to sleep :P

Well considering that the Yak-3 was meant for Dogfighting, and the Yak-9T was meant for a fast armored vehicle buster, the 37mm kinda threw off the Yak-9 because it was a meant for ground attack, and dogfighting with a heavier gun on a light plane didn't really work well.

It may have only one machine gun, but it has one hell of a rate of fire.

It's a 12.7 Berezin UB Machine Gun, and it's rate of fire escapes me at the moment. But, it was quite fast.

Other Yak's had more than one. Early Yak-9s had one 12.7 mm MG and one 20mm cannon thru the prop shaft. Pilot complaints prompted the factory to install two 12.7s, plus the 20 mm. The 9T-37 and the 9K, having either a 37 or a 45 mm cannon, respectively, had only one 12.7 mm MG for weight saving/aiming purposes, and because the cannon provided most of the punch.

LJB:cool:

And there is the problem. In these single missions they want you to use this plane for Need Cover missions or destroying enemy planes etc.

Need 5 hits to kill a FW190 :confused: (not all in the same spot... but dead on for sure). This is not the power of a 37mm... its the same effect as an 20mm :(

Yeah I know, I think they should have just stuck with the classic Yak-9. Not a Yak-9U or some other variant like the Yak-9T. That's why I stick to the Yak-3! I just aim for the engine cowling, and with two quick little squirts of my cannon and MGs, BLAMO!!!! Another one falls towards the earth in flames.:cool:

I tried flying this thing again... No success. Shooting in bursts makes a little bit of a difference, but shots from the cannon still go this way and that randomly even when the plane is flying in a straight line, remaining at the same altitude. I am having a huge amount of trouble beating the Korsun Pocket single missions because of this plane!

Are you playing it in Simulator? Because if you are, that explains A LOT! :cool:

No, I'm flying in Realistic.