Vehicle: Yak-3U / Yak-3 (VK-107)
Gamemode: Air Realistic
BR Change: 5.7 —> 6.0
Reason: If the LF Mk9 Spitfires last BR Change and the Zeros this major update are so strong that they require being 6.0, then why isnt the strongest aircraft at 5.7 also moving up in the form of the Yak-3. It consistantly outperforms the Spitifre and Zero.
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Now let’s talk about hit rates.
With top-attack AGMs like the Hellfire and the AKD-9=BA-9, continuous firing allows the second and third rounds—which have already established a stable trajectory—to hit the target at an earlier stage, even if the first round misses.
Since the Apache can carry as many as 16 of these without sacrificing slots for AAMs, the hit rate of a single missile isn’t a major concern.
The Hellfire is an AGM that, if even a single round hits a tank, will almost certainly disable it or destroy it in a single strike.
Furthermore, this payload capacity and firepower directly impact combat endurance and kill counts. Even based on specs alone, the difference in firing rate between the Apache and the Z-19 is twofold; however, since high-damage AGMs like the Hellfire can aim for a kill with the first shot, the actual disparity is even greater.
Furthermore, this is an issue inherent to helicopters in general: the broken ARH SAM meta currently present in BR 12.7 is causing significant trouble for helicopters from BR 11.7 onward that lack LDIRCM, so this mere 0.3 difference makes a truly massive impact. If we’re going to have to face these monsters while being limited to just four of these underpowered AGMs at a practical level, this update will truly be the worst kind of meddling.
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These are genuinely the most Incompetent set of Br changes i have ever seen.
Churchill up to 5.0? really?
M44s DOWN to 3.7?
Tiger II’s back to 6.3 where they will stomp on 5.3s again?
You are literally undoing all of the progress of decompressing the mid tier BR bracket over the past couple years.
AND THE HUMMEL? genuinely the best Artillery vehicle in the game now? More mobile than the Nashorn, with APHEDS and all that? You want to move that DOWN?
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Or limit it to laser kh38 only
-No armor, best armor
-Amazing maneuverability
-Able to reliably kill everything it comes across (not even having to aim in a lot of cases)
-Has a .50 cal just to top it off
→ Gets a lower BR
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You genuinely tell me with a Straight face that the Churchill MKVII is Equal to the KV1C.
Its way less mobile, the gun is worse, the armor is better yes, But it has MASSIVE weakspots.
At this rate we are going to see the Tiger’s and Panthers back to 5.3 and crap.
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Gaijin thinks that the Churchill VII deserves to fight IS-2s
Genuinely just take the APHE back away from it. it didn’t need it. it worked fine without it.
id rather THAT, then it just get thrown to slaughter fighting 6.0s.
I don’t even LIKE the APHE. its way less reliable at actually penetrating things.
It fuses and detonates inside KV1 mantlets and does no damage. the Solid shot wouldn’t. it would punch through and kill crew.
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Churchill MKVII and Crocodile:
REMOVE THE APHE.
They didn’t need the rounds, and they 100% should not be fighting 6.0s JUST because you gave it a new over performing round.
Keep it at 4.7, and just take the APHE away. I have spoke to many that don’t like the APHE. The people that actually played the Churchill before. The APHE is less reliable at actually penetrating targets.
Geniere (Rank II → Rank III), currently this is the best Italian destroyer (because of American meta cannons with insane RoF, second is Impetuouso for the same reason) sitting at the highest 4.7 BR, all the other rank III Italian destroyers have 4.0-4.3 BR, all the other Italian 4.7 ships are placed at rank III. So it doesn’t make sence that this ship is placed at rank II. Increase of the rank will also provide Italian players with at least a premium competitive destroyer (because other Italian destroyers except Impetuouso are outclassed due to awful RoF and fragility) to complete special tasks having “rank III, destroyer” requirement.
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British players are not Ameri-babies or germ-babies, We can fight, and win without APHE.
Unfortunately in infinite gaijin’s wisdom same later LASER guided weaponry doesn’t have limit from what distance you can lase for it. It has only limit on seeker from what distance it can pick up lased target. You could shoot them off by GNSS and guide them at target while being dozens KMs away from any SPAA…
Gnss weaponry I guess. Considering non gnss kh29l, kh25ml and agm65e2 are all capped to 10km despite having more range than that.
I dont know how to feel about it without kh38mls tho. Its not even sidegrade then, its just worse than su39 which is going to 11.7. I dont think thermals are worth losing 2 kh25mpu, 2 kh31p (kh58u isnt even close), 16 vikhrs, 2 r60m (useful to bait out some flares) and kopyo pod.
2 kh29t/2 kh58u, 4 kh25ml and 2 r73 on subsonic airframe seems meh for 11.7. F111f at 11.7 has much more speed and 8 ir fnf munitions which are almost guaranteed 8/8 kills in downtiers.
KH‑29 is objectively weaker than any IR/IIR AGM – it’s TV‑guided, no thermal. At 12.0, the matchmaker is full of wallet warriors, and SPAA quality is usually terrible.
And that “range advantage” you keep bringing up? That won’t work for pop-up attack ,which is the most common way to cas– you fly low and pull up vertically into the radar blind spot, so range doesn’t even matter. Also, you say the F/A‑18 only gets 4 Mavericks? Well, killing 4 targets is still better than killing 1~2 – because with TV seekers you often can’t lock anything at all. Even Mavericks can get kill if it comes from the top.
I agree the A-10C and AV-8B+ are bad, but at this BR with so many wallet warriors, they’re still better in practice than the TV‑guided but high‑speed, long‑range, high‑performance KH‑29TD. I admit lacking Fox‑3 AAMs is a downside, but since it’s for ground attack, it’s not that big of an issue.
Saying the Su‑27SM isn’t over‑tiered – show me the evidence.
My original idea for it was to be 11.3 and be foldered with su-25T. IT IS unfortunately no more than a sidegrade of su-25s.
Was thinking that 11.7 might not be the worst place to start for it.
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Fair enough – F/A-18C Early does have worse flight performance, A2A, and KH‑59 is MITL. But the Su‑30 and MiG‑29 have their own flaw: TV‑only AGMs, no thermal. Both sides are flawed, so these imperfect jets belong at 12.0 , not higher.
Block 20??? I assume you are trying to say that the PoBIT should stay at 14.3 while the Block 72 goes down to 14.0
Both planes are completely homeless in ARB at their current battle ratings, the differences between them are frankly minor compared to the massive gap in both vehicle capability that exists between these two planes and the rest of 14.3
Trying to equate an ARH + IRCCM capable airframe with KH31 and KH29 versus a sparrow + 9L airframe with the single shittiest FnF munition and second shittiest ARM in the game just because the latter gets a targeting pod is absurd.
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its not blk70/72.
its a old block 20 upgraded with avionics of the block 72
its still get the weak engines of blk20.
basicly you got the 13.3 MLU in 14.3 with a aesa radar.
while the pobit is block 50
My point still stands, neither plane is competitive at all at 14.3, and the PoBIT is a block 52 since it uses a different(effectively weaker) engine compared to the block 50.