Performance wise? Sure… otherwise you’re left to getting lucky or maybe learning how to use the 45 but the machine guns just serve to tickle aircraft but that may be in part due to me using it in BRV so i’ll say that.
Just as a side note there is nothing more satisfying then catching an unaware pilot… getting right behind him and unloading the 45 watching their plane implode… i wonder what goes through their heads.
This is how i prefer to go after planes with the 9k so dogfighting is usually a last resort which then i usually just hit him with all machine gun ammo and then smoking or something but again with what i said above.
People really love to shit on 50 cals in general but they do can work for bringing down planes.
Just dont expect them to immidiately explode as if those where 30mm hits but on the other hand they do tend to somehow always snipe the pilots out of his cockpit.
Sure, 50 cals aren’t bad when you get 1000+… however you only get 200
it’s right in the nose which yeah can allow you to snipe pilot easier but centers the damage usually to the center of plane if you follow lead indicator which is the most armored.
Just never had a good experience with going after other planes in a fight and results in me getting them smoking while i go back for resupply and then just do what i know works.
If we gonna talk “OP” planes, this new 109Z is absolutely cracked. I knew it would perform well from the start, but it’s so much better than i imagined. I stayed in the sky in a br5 game against u.s. for 3/4s of the match without dying, taking out all jets, p47s, and paratrooper planes with ease. One short burst and any plane is completely decimated. The spacing on the cannons is so perfect for firing at planes and the ground for infantry kills. The bomb is just a cherry on top, it actually almost lands directly where your sights are when dropping at the right elevation/angle. I won’t say it needs to be uptiered, but holy shit, it really is a br5 plane that only got downtiered because of certain people lol
WTF no.
There’s many BRIII fighter like ki-100 and P-51D have better loadout, why yak-9k have to uptier if they are still in BRIII
Yak-9K have 0 anti infantry ability, and it’s premium. don’t touch it.
It takes skill and careful planning to do that… you need to be literally directly above to even pen the armor… and then hitting it accurately enough without pancaking to the ground.
To call it “easy” is a complete exaggeration… i however have “lol-penned” a panther just shooting at it randomly and it going through its turret… no such thing has ever happened to the tiger and i usually consider it a waste of time and ensures my plane is dead if i go after one… but that could very well just be skill issue.
Perhaps with how flat the side armor is… maybe the drivers hatch or such but even then the regular tiger has a much more flat profile compared to tiger which what you mention doesn’t surprise me considering that.
I will however clarify i’m talking about the tiger 2 H… i’ve even went through the top of turret and it only damages taking one or two crew… keeping your plane perfectly straight on a dive while lining up that perfect ammo shot is just anything but easy.
