Yak-9t

[cav58d]

The past two days I have been flying the YAK9T...What an awesome airplane!  I find it ridicously maneuverable...I have been eating spits for breakfast...Its also an amazing boom and zoomer...Doesnt seem to compress at all, i love it...Im also getting pretty comfortable with the 37MM...Ammo is minimal, so its only shoot when you gurantee a kill...I have my distance set at 200...Now I can maneuver the airplane onto someones six and get within 100-300D and get the kill no problem...But I am having some serious trouble with snapshots and deflection angles...Is it even worth it to take angled shots like that with a 37mm?  Is there anyone who is a pro in the Yak-T that could take me to the DA or TA sometime to mess around?  thanks

cav

[ghi]

Originally posted by cav58d
The past two days I have been flying the YAK9T...What an awesome airplane!  I find it ridicously maneuverable...I have been eating spits for breakfast...

cav

 
 Did the spit pilots see you ?

[Krusty]

Cav: I'm no pro but I used to love the -T.

Ghi: don't knock it, the Yak9 is a very manuverable plane. Back in AH1 I used to out turn spitVs low and slow on the deck.

For the snap shots: I wouldn't take them. From my experience, it's like firing the 109's 30mm -- chances are the enemy plane will fly right between your rounds. Avoid 90-degree-ish snapshots. Go for more subtle angles, like 45-degrees or so (front or back), that is to say where the relative motion of the plane you're shooting at is slower.

I guess I ought to get back into the -T for a bit and get used to it again.

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by Krusty
Ghi: don't knock it, the Yak9 is a very manuverable plane.

If you can force a climbing right turn fight, the 9T will outmaneuver an FM2.  The plane is lots of fun.  I've never had any success using the 37mm at anything longer than point-blank range, but the results are always impressive.

- oldman

[Pooface]

Originally posted by Oldman731
If you can force a climbing right turn fight, the 9T will outmaneuver an FM2.  The plane is lots of fun.  I've never had any success using the 37mm at anything longer than point-blank range, but the results are always impressive.

- oldman

lol, i will never forget the first time i killed a tempest. the guy zooms past me, and i shoot one round from 800+ yrds, while he's going a lot faster than me, and i took his tail off

that gun is so uber its crazy. of course rate of fire and ammo load suck, so use it more like a sniper rifle. the bullet won't drop until about 650 yrds, where it only drops a few inches per 100yrds. crazy gun rofl

[indy007]

I've made 90 degree shots with it plenty of times. As long as you can keep them above your nose (roll inverted, whatever it takes) when you line up the shot you'll get the timing down pretty fast. The gun really is a twitch gamers dream. Counter-Strike has an AWP, we get a 37mm

[Krusty]

lol lovely analogy

[cav58d]

I dont think the rate of fire on the 37MM is bad at all

[Krusty]

No, not that bad, but still slow enough compared to other guns that high speed snapshots might go around the target.

[Squire]

I wish it had an optional 23mm, which it had. I like the Yak-9 but its silly that AH2 only models the tank buster version?

[George]

Yak-9T has HC-37 gun with following data:
length 3400 mm
max width 215 mm
max height 415 mm
Weight 171 kg
Rate of fire 240—260 shots/min
HE shell 732 g, including  explosive weight 34 g, initial velocity— 865 m/sec.
After hit in 1-1.5 mm thick. duraluminum aircraft skin , HE shell makes hole with 0.46 m input diameter and 0.78 m output diameter

AP shell 770 g, initial velocity 810 m/sec.
From 200 m distance AP shell pierces 50 mm armor and from 400 m distance - 45 mm armor at 90 degrees (normal).

Charge weight (both for HE and AP) - about 210 g

Yak-9T (tank aircraft) has been produced from March, 1943 up to june, 1945. Total production q-ty - 2748 pcs.  
HC-37 ammunition onto Yak-9T was 30 shells (in case of carefull loading of cartridge belt - 32 shells).

Yak-9T was 152 kg heavier than Yak-9 and had a little bit worse maneuverability, climb and speed data.
As usual, Yak-9T has been used together with Yak-9 and operated by experienced and keen pilots

[OOZ662]

I was dweebin' around about 750ft over a small airfield looking up at buffs passing over and the such. Got about two field-lengths away and turned to see a pony at 2.0 out. I thought to myself, "I'm bored, but that would be retarded...well..." Snapped the nose up, put in a tiny bit of rudder, and hucked one of those rounds up at the guy. I had time to put my nose down, change throttle setting, and start a turn before I saw a tiny little puff and got a kill message. Was laughing so hard I had to land and almost pranged it; imagining the look on his face...

Can't deny the "THOOM!" sound of that gun either.

[Tony Williams]

Originally posted by George
Yak-9T (tank aircraft) has been produced from March, 1943 up to june, 1945. Total production q-ty - 2748 pcs.  

My information is that the T stood for Tyazhelovooruzhenniy = heavily armed, nothing to do with tanks. AFAIK the 9T was used only in aerial combat, not for anti-tank work. The AP ammo was used by the Il-2 3M, which carried two NS-37 underwing.

Tony Williams: Military gun and ammunition website and discussion forum

[George]

According to book of Mr. Stepanetz (Chief flight test engineer of Yakovlev's design office), T means Tankoviy (Tank). It can be understood as 'aircraft which has gun like tank'. In the most of Russian articles T means Tankoviy too.

[Krusty]

That does NOT mean it's an anti-tank weapon, as it is clearly a HE round, not a AP round.