Ok you Spit/Dora arguing dweebs go get your OWN stinking thread!!
Back to the topic at hand.
Spitlead wrote:
It's just a perception, I have no historical reference.
Thats the problem. Much of what your claiming about the abilities of the La7 are just your perceptions, and are not fact.
If you would go do some testing on the aircraft you would see for instance that the La7 is a very mediocre turner, with relatively poor low speed handling. Much like the Yak-9U and P-51.
However, if someone can bring historical data to this forum to validate the La7 FM then I will bow to that.
Well, I'm at work or I would post data to till your sick of reading it
But the short of the answer is simply "Yes, the La7 could do what it does in AH". If anything,
all the Soviet aircraft in AH have been produced with the worst performing flight test data available. So if anything, the La7 could potentially have been even better.
It's all been the P-51 and Spitfire that "won the air war". If this airplane was as good in the FM in real life as it is in AH then I would think I would've heard more about it.
Its called Propaganda and a little issue referred too as the "Cold War"
My biggest point is that there are few airplanes that do nearly ALL things well. Usually, an airplane has several notable advantages in its FM while having several disadvanges in others (i.e. you can't have your cake and eat it too in airplane design, there's ALWAYS a trade off in design factors).
You are correct!! And the La7 conforms to that design theory quite well.
Advantages: Climb, Acceleration, Speed below 5k. High speed handling, and instantaneous turns.
These combine to make a very effective E fighter at the low altitudes seen in "Main Arena" combat like in AH.
Disadvantages: Very poor performance at altitude (above 10k, and its very mediocre), Average to Poor sustained turn rates, Poor low speed handling, Poor guns, Small Ammo loadout, very short range, and almost no Air to Ground attack capabiity.
The La7 as modeled in AH seems to be too good in speed, climb, acceleration, turning, diving etc.
Why? Take a very small, relatively light airframe and attach a huge radial engine too it. Giving you a high power to weight ratio. Simple design concept.
My experience in AH is that it seems to outrun anything on the deck and can just about turn with a N1K (the oft maligned uber airplane (aka UFO). To me, that just seems out of whack.
No arguements on the speed, although a Typhoon and the Dora are both very close and it all depends on initial relative energy states and altitude.
But on the turning. Again I say, prove it.
To show you how confident I am, if your right, I will arrange to have your next month of Aces High paid free of charge.
Needless to say, I'm a fan of the late war Soviet Fighters. And given the type of fight they were designed for (which is quite similar to our arena combat) they are very very good.
