Four 30G R-60 Missiles at 9.3 | Yak-38 War Thunder

[@stellasolaris]

Yak 38 gameplay indeed, 9/10 not enough R-60s

[@GeneralLee2000]

I will dispense more R-60

[@GualaSZN]

The Whale PP has been blessed this Patch!

[@GeneralLee2000]

Facts my brother

[@derritter3873]

The Sabre is just impossible to play rn. I love facing this thing, starfighters, rooks, warthogs, that one Mig-23, harriers, and much, much more. This is also a problem with the WW2 era rst rocket. Even top tier is more bearable than 8.3-9.7 rn.

[@andreirotenev]

Top tier is indeed more tolerable

[@makarevych]

​@@andreirotenev can't get uptiered in top tier.

[@nks406]

Good video, this one is kind of a hidden gem in ground rb

[@bearhaslanded637]

For anyone who thinks this plane is good, you should check out the Ayit in the Israeli tree, same br of 9.3 but with better flight performance, 60 flares and 4 x 18g missiles with much longer range, you have to be a little more measured with missile shots but that thing feels like easy mode to me.

[@GeneralLee2000]

It's so good

[@GLaDOSthelegend]

I only get up tiered to planes with flares but that doesn't really matter because the missile doesn't even lokv anyways. I'm right behind them about 1 km away and it doesn't even lock.

[@CokenOpi]

you might be the first youtuber ive watched actually give this plane a good review. personally, i think the plane is a ton of fun. it does however have many flaws, one major one i don't believe you touched on, those stubby little wings provide VERY LITTLE LIFT, you will hit the ground quite often if you aren't careful

[@ВасилийВасилий-б9у]

Цель его пропускать воздух встречный через воздухозаборники и таким образом приземляться вертикально поворачивая сопла вниз на 90градусов а не парить как планер

[@jthablaidd]

Finally, a war thunder youtuber who’s enemies actually have a brain

[@TANKMUN]

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[@NotAnWildPig]

I remember being so frustrated in this thing I bought the premium Su-7 to get the MLD by bombing

[@GeneralLee2000]

Definitely a unique flightstyle, I enjoy it personally. Especially now with 4 R-60s :)

[@ryanbarone8072]

Late comment, but I was in the F-105D and saw a yak 38 well within R-60 range. Somehow, I was able to dodge 3 of his missiles with the last one only getting a crit on me. I was able to land and repair, but still to this day, idk how I dodged the R-60s, call myself lucky.

[@elbozo3214]

Insane brother, the GR 1 is all the way up to 10.0 but this thing? Nah

[@GeneralLee2000]

GR.1 is still serving penance for its time destroying 9.3 and 9.7 it seems back in the day xD

[@dondelchulia3189]

Lol just dive from 10000m on to the A10s it’s free kills

[@AZ-dj1ni]

The Yak 38 never got as broken and spammed as the GR1 in its heyday.

[@libre1245]

the thing with the yak38 is it started with 2 missiles but like 2-3 months ago they added 4 r60's, also yak30 is not meant to be Air destroyer since it's slow af, turns ultra bad and bleeds extremely easy.

[@thetexanbuzzsaw3145]

Good hunting there. Well played as always

[@GeneralLee2000]

Thanks homie!

[@thetexanbuzzsaw3145]

:3

[@gigaset41a1]

that was a great video man earned a subbed! very helpful to a new pilot trying to grasp missile combat

[@GeneralLee2000]

Thanks bro! Appreciate it!

[@crozzer7689]

Against 9.0s Yak-38 is OP. But 90% of the time, it plays in 9.7 or 10.0, and there it is almost useless against the swarm of AV-8A and A-10A, beacuse they all have flares and the R60s love flares. Its makes Yak's main advantage, be useless. By the way you almost never can dodge missiles because it is a brick and even if you dodge one, it lose a lot of speed while maneuvering and dogfight is not an option, so you are dead. Everyone know this problems and that's why yaks receives focus. The only you can do to be safe, is make worth your decent top speed, stay far and wait casual opportunities.

[@seekerpro486]

It’s back! d;

[@bitofapickle]

And when you poit out the obvious problem of a plane carrying 4x R60 at 9.3 on the forums, you'll be quickly shut down by forum mods and other fanbois by being told it's skill issue. You can't win with these people

[@kerotomas1]

I actually like the Mig-21S more with its 4 R3R radar missiles. You can shoot them frontally like all aspect IR missiles and they cant even flare them. Being in a Mig-21 is much better than being in a flying brick like the Yak38

[@bitofapickle]

@@kerotomas1 yeah but tell me a Sabre can dodge an R60.... It can't

[@YourMyDisciple]

I tought matthew mcconaughey made this video after listening to the first 4 seconds

[@GeneralLee2000]

Do I really sound like him? Aha

[@danielcamacho1913]

What does it mean when it says "It works for me"? What's the difference between that and "Aircraft Destroyed"?

[@jovaan5532]

It is kinda like the f84f on min fuel

[@jaek_898]

So true!

[@ares7522]

For some reason, I knew this was coming XD

[@kiubekpl5863]

Also if you have trouble with vtol landing i recommend using hover mode with hover alitude adjustment keybinds.

[@GeneralLee2000]

Just takes a bit longer

[@kiubekpl5863]

@@GeneralLee2000 better than breaking your landing gear 🙃

[@flak8842]

hey general Lee can you do a gameplay on the MiG-21 F-13 cuz i think this plane is long forgotten

[@GeneralLee2000]

I might at some point, it is kinda overlooked yeah

[@ghost0d077]

I do not see this plane on my game I'm a ps5 player how do I get it I have the yak38m in the tech three

[@GeneralLee2000]

Gaijin removed it from sale, you'll have to wait until if/when it returns

[@pilotpug]

They added the 4x R-60's half a year after having remove the pack from the store :(

[@GeneralLee2000]

Sad!

[@TheDAWinz]

BASED

[@GeneralLee2000]

So true!

[@Ronnie_McDoggle]

yes MF DOOM is BASED

[@TomPrickVixen]

And still the only VTOL plane that did not got a custom loadout is the US AV-8C for some reason, making it the least played VTOL jet in the game now. And I wonder what the Yak-38M does better to be 9.7? I don't think I ever had a good game with it (still mostly stock, but I got the R60s).

[@GeneralLee2000]

It has a slightly better engine, that's it

[@TomPrickVixen]

@@GeneralLee2000 about +5%...

[@GeneralLee2000]

@@TomPrickVixen yup. I think I say it in the video but IMO it's not worth a .4 difference

[@frostedbutts4340]

The 8C has custom loadouts now The only reason it's rarely seen is everyone just buys the premium version tbh, it plays fine.

[@TomPrickVixen]

@@frostedbutts4340 Just looked at it, and yes; it does now...

[@sekutard5157]

its no longer available, i regret not buying it

[@GeneralLee2000]

Hopefully they'll bring it back as a GE premium, they seem to like doing that

[@libre1245]

can we get the custom .txt for the kill text etc.? thanks

[@dback643]

What is that circular instrument on the left side? What does it tell you?

[@GeneralLee2000]

Do you mean the RWR? If so it tells me the direction of radar beams and when I'm getting locked

[@dback643]

@@GeneralLee2000 Thats everything i need to knowXD Thanks for the answer! Awesome video btw🙂

[@The_Empowered_Q]

isnt the fact that this plane has no countermeasures means its bad?

[@angrycitizenofreddit7251]

Hover sausage strikes again!

[@vaapps]

I wanted this plane for years but when i was able to buy it, they deleted the pack :(

[@GeneralLee2000]

so sad :(

[@pindell_09]

218 subs from 1k i believe in you lee🙏🏼

[@GeneralLee2000]

We'll get there homie!

[@jeroenluyckx7112]

I think the hover mode helps with landing

[@GeneralLee2000]

Kinda works like an airbrake

[@sawiszcze3878]

So I about to start researching the M variant in the tt, is it better in any way, do you recommend it?

[@GeneralLee2000]

I would still recommend it, it does of course sit at a slightly higher BR but the matchmaker is not much different. If I recall correctly the Yak-38M has slightly stronger engines and that's the major difference. Personally I don't think it's enough of a difference to justify the BR jump, but the prem Yak shouldn't be 9.3 anyways...

[@sawiszcze3878]

@@GeneralLee2000 thanks, really helped me there

[@Marc-zi4vg]

You know how digusting the harrier was when it first came out... *Welp this is what it was like!*

[@kiubekpl5863]

f104 can go 2000km/h (usually about mah1 tho), its defenetly much faster than yak38 arrow.

[@GeneralLee2000]

100 percent

[@generalgrievous3054]

Yes The f104 can go 2000kmh but you have to be at an altitude of over 15000m. At Sea level its really fast still tho, like 1400kmh

[@telesiak2484]

since when yak 38 is 9.3?

[@GeneralLee2000]

As long as I remember. This is the premium one that's a little worse than the Yak-38M

[@telesiak2484]

@@GeneralLee2000 aight didn't know that

[@nbranski43]

the same BR as CL-13 with two aim-9B's ...

[@vassowned7768]

Kinda disgusting that the harrier is still 10.0 if it has flares thats fine

[@GeneralLee2000]

Gr.1 is just sad now

[@pouletbidule9831]

Yeah av8's with 9g's and hundreds of flares should be 10.0 and the gr1 should go to 9.7

[@vassowned7768]

@@pouletbidule9831 just give them flares and its already fine tbh amraam is not even a good missle these days esp not at 10.0 eats flares for days and really short range

[@Thallez_]

@@vassowned7768 amraam is something completely different bro

[@ant-onemusic444]

.3 higher than the f2 sabre

[@dzemdobryowicz7516]

and the same tier like in the cl-13 mk6 sabre

[@ondraandel4197]

For me in A4N is this plane food

[@GeneralLee2000]

A-4N is such a gamer plane

[@jfv2312]

With this loadout, the regular Yak-38 should be at least 10.0, and the Yak-38M should have 4xR-60M and be bumped to 10.3/10.7. But it will never happen because this one is a premium and it would break the holy grail of Gaijin's cash cows, the russian 9.7 lineup

[@GeneralLee2000]

Wooooo compression!!!!!

[@mattthimas3994]

Bro it literally turns worse then a train it's fine

[@derritter3873]

@@mattthimas3994 it faces WW2 and Korean War era jets

[@mattthimas3994]

@der_Ritter ww2 jets? It's at 9.3 it faces cold war jets all can out turn it, it only has rear aspect ir and the only way your getting on the rear of someone is they are blind

[@derritter3873]

@@mattthimas3994 the Me-163 and Ki-200 are at 8.7. They’re WW2 era jets.

[@SkinkUA]

Joob thumbnail style?

[@GeneralLee2000]

Thumbnail meta

[@Daiman01]

only premium or tech tree aswell?

[@GeneralLee2000]

Techtree also gets 4 R-60s, but it's at 9.7 not 9.3. Still very good though

[@Daiman01]

@@GeneralLee2000 aye,thank you.I really dIdn't touch Yak line-up lol.

[@qittfthegame6128]

Which idiot in Gaijin thought it was a good idea to put it in 9.3

[@mohamedghaithmajjani8553]

Meanwhile F5E has no computer and worse missiles...

[@WeebLord69]

İ mean its a great plane if you get a downtier, but you don't. That match is just a cherry picked low tier march. My experience in 9.3 is that 1/40 games is downtier. You are gonna be fighting supersonics that will destroy you or usa teams full of a-10/f-5c which makes your r60s useless cuz they have too many flares.

[@GeneralLee2000]

Literally the match I did the best in is the first, and it's a 10.3 game. I did one full uptier and two full downtiers, because the fact that a transonic plane with 4 R-60s can fight panthers and A-5 sabres is ridiculous

[@kerotomas1]

I’m pretty sure nowadays you won’t face uptiers as my A5C is nonstop against 10.3 and 10.7. I haven’t seen a downtier in it for weeks now.

[@Blackflippy]

This thing is way better than the AV8, at least this thing turns and has 4 R-60. Russian bias lol

[@Forazehy]

I wonder who thought this was a good idea. 🤣

[@GeneralLee2000]

I know right? Ahahaha

[@peterszekacs9492]

Trash jet facing a10s and f5s literally unplayble they should give it flares

[@curgest6807]

Poor bastards :(

[@GeneralLee2000]

I felt so bad whenever I got an 8.3 game. 4 R-60s are gross at 10.3, let alone 8.3

[@reddeltagames]

First comment is mine.

[@GeneralLee2000]

You've got it

[@SeekerHead]

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[@TheGuyfromValhalla]

Wha

[@GeneralLee2000]

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