Well Santa its quite obvious you have an agenda whether you claim too or not.
Call me anything you wish or insult at will, I don't care and will just laugh.
Oh sure is, if this is the way it is implemented. But while most fights start at around 20-25k, they rather quickly come down to around 10-12k I have found. If the Yak can climb about as well, and retains E better, the maximum speed would really be irrelevant if the 109 would wish to fight.
How is it irrelevant? You control the fight at will. If it goes bad, extend, and make a decision from there. If you arguement was correct, how does a P-51 beat a Spitfire? The Pony does it by flying smart, and playing to his strengths.
Another are of interest is the max speed at sea level. Your own numbers show the Yak has a definitive edge here, and low level speed is sort of important, since most will dive to extend/get away from an enemy, which means that eventually, the fight ends on the deck.
Not if you fight your aircraft to its fullest, and only fly to the strengths of your aircraft.
The G10 is faster from about 15k up. So thats where you should fight. If the fight starts to decend below 15k, the G10 pilot better decide real quick if he wants to continue the fight to the death, or run away like a little screaming girl to fight another day(tm Juzz) while he still has a speed advantage [Something I am also quite familiar with as a P-51 pilot].
And its your choice, you don't have to dive all the way to the deck during an extension or escape. Escape at the altitude where you plane has the advantage. Its a common mistake many pilots make, and its quite unneeded unless the other pilot has more E or a much faster plane.
If I'm flying a P-51 and am 1 v 1 a Typhoon, I'm not going to try and run on the deck, he will eat me up. If I think I need to run, I am going to do it above 10k, while I still have a chance.
See this is a Sim, and the thing about a Sim is that planes have strengths and weakness's you can't have it all. If you play to its strengths you generally win, if you don't you lose.
Yes the Yak-9U matches up very well on paper to the G10. Thats the facts of history. We will wait and see how it matchs up in AH.
I will leave you with two quotes from very knowledgeable Luftwaffe pilots.
The best fighters I met in Combat were the American P-51 Mustang and the Russian Yak-9U. Both of these types obviously exceeded all Bf109 variants in performance, including the "K". The Mustang was unmatched in altitude performance, while the Yak-9U was champion in rate of climb and manueverability.
Walter Wolfrun, Bf109G Combat Ace
and
Whereas the German Bf109G and Fw190 models were equal to any of the aforementioned Soviet Fighter Models in all respects, this cannot be said of the Soviet Yak-3, which made its first appearance at the front in the late Summer of 1944. This aeroplane was faster, more manueverable and had better climbing capabilities that the Bf109G and Fw190, to which it was inferior only in armament.
by Lieutenant General Walter Schwabedissen, in his book, The Russian Air Force in the Eyes of the German Commanders
Oh, and incidentally, the Yak-9U was superior to the Yak-3 in most regards, until the later model Yak-3's were equipped with the Vk-107 engine.
Get upset all you want, but it sounds like you don't like the fact that the Yak-9U could historically fight the Bf109G10 at its own game (climb and acceleration) and have a shot at winning.
[LOL!! Leonid, we were typing our messages at the same time, and come up with the same quote]
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Vermillion
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[This message has been edited by Vermillion (edited 04-29-2000).]