Yak9-U Cannon

[321BAR]

Ok, I'm a yakker and i looove it, but i never get why that thing can rip apart 7-8 planes b4 reloading....or am i just THAT good in it???  , is that cannon meant to do that???

[Motherland]

Auto-cannons are meant to destroy aircraft, yes.

[321BAR]

auto cannon??? whatdya mean?

[Motherland]

Any automatic weapon that fires a round over 13mm is considered an auto-cannon (not a machine gun). This probably cuts off somewhere up high but as far as most guns in this game go...
The engine-mounted gun in the Yakovlev 9U is an ShVAK 20mm auto-cannon.
The cowl-mounted guns above the engine in the Yaks are UBS 12.7mm (.50 caliber) machine guns.

[321BAR]

ahh ok, but i use cannon on other planes and they dont have the same effect the yak has on rippn wings of the nme off

[321BAR]

ahh ok, but i use cannon on other planes and they dont have the same effect the yak has on rippn wings of the nme off

srry, I meant specifically this cannon...

[Motherland]

According to Wiki's 20mm gun table the ShVAK's round is fairly similar to the round of the German MG151/20... which is pretty much what I experience in game.
The 109 and the Yakovlevs have an advantage of having their autocannon mounted in the 'vee' of their engine. The DB601/605 on the 109 and the KM-105 on the Yak were specially designed to have a cannon mounted in them (you could not just mount a cannon in any Merlin or Allison). Having a centrally mounted cannon supported by two centrally mounted machine guns is very beneficial as they are always at convergence, and easier to aim.

[321BAR]

Ok thank you for the info 

[SuBWaYCH]

Bubi pretty much covered what I woulda said in this thread... 

*walks out*

[abc123]

Having a centrally mounted cannon supported by two centrally mounted machine guns is very beneficial as they are always at convergence, and easier to aim.

To OP (and you Motherland, if applicable), in the horizontal plane at least.

[BoilerDown]

You're probably just bragging, but either way you're a better shot than I, I generally can't get more than 2 or 3 per flight.  Then again I've only been flying the 9-U for a week.  So far I love it, I think it'll teach me a lot.  The funnest thing though, is when I screw up and dive into the weeds at 400 MPH with someone chasing me 400 yards back.  I try to fly under the treetops, and between trees 32 feet apart cause any other plane that fast is too big .

[321BAR]

The Yak also is really better stallfightin till u eat dirt, horizontally u need speed to turn in it... that gun also just blows through the wings of any fighter and u go home happy...(btw, yes i'm partially bragging, but wanted to know specs anyway  )

[Gixer]

Ok, I'm a yakker and i looove it, but i never get why that thing can rip apart 7-8 planes b4 reloading....or am i just THAT good in it???  , is that cannon meant to do that???

Fire between point blank and 200 and it's a very effective gun platform, keeping it close you can average around 5-20 cannon rounds per fighter/per kill, which will put your kill/hit% in the 20% plus mark if majority of your targets are fighters,few buffs and no buildings etc to pad the stat..

It's usually for fuel that sends you back to base first,especially on large maps and even more so in the Yak-9T. If your constantly landing 7 kill bags in a Yak U before re-arm your doing very well and of course your stats would reflect this as well. 


<S>...-Gixer

[1pLUs44]

I'd be a Yak dweeb, but I spoiled myself on already updated planes. Now, it's hard for me to get in my Typh or Fm2..... 

[Shane]

If your constantly landing 7 kill bags in a Yak U before re-arm your doing very well and of course your stats would reflect this as well. 
<S>...-Gixer

heh.   

but then maybe he's doing it in offline mode...