The history behind this thing is quite interesting, highly recommended the video by Skyships Eng :) Basically yak design bureau took a yak-3 and slapped a jet engine on it
This thing is worth it, just purely for the fact that it is one of the best trainer for someone getting into early jets and overall teaches not only some aspects of jets, but also allows reverting to prop maneuverability. And finally, it is THE best teaching plane (actually the Yak-15P version) for trigger discipline, exactly due to its weakness of the low ammo count, but coupled with its amazing handling making for a stable gun platform.
You REALLY need to work on your trigger discipline. You complain about your low ammo, and still shoot random rounds from way too far on the target, while approaching a 100% kill shot rapidly.
As someone who started on the Soviet air tree, seeing somebody who's clearly never had to much worry about ammo counts shoot gives me i m m e n s e anxiety.
Just needs to learn better flying in general. Chasing and shooting with friendly planes in his target area. Flying towards airfield with no ammo before checking where the airfield is ending up flying in the complete opposite direction of his airfield. Going after planes below him when there are enemy planes above him. These videos are like a perfect example of how NOT to fly properly.
stick with the 15P. yes it has one less gun.... but if you watch, both guns fire at the same time. means you hit with both or miss with both anyways. extremely rarely will you hit with one and not he other. why this makes a difference? with the cannons on these planes you only need one to land. with the 15P first time up I watched how my rounds flew. got 4 kills one assist and still had 15-16 rounds left. if it had alternating fire I would absolutely say it would be worth it. but stay in the 6.3 rather than the 6.7 plane, save the SL, and performance while VERY minor between the two, the P is actually slightly better.
One aircraft I had a lot of fun with spading was the kikka .. It’s just fun starting super slow and only 50 rounds Eventually getting up to 100 rounds and very strong engines
I have played around 7 matches with the first yak-15 and so far ive done very good even when it was stock, i was always killed in a 2-3v1 because only 60rds of the 23mm is very very bad, im not fond of the 23mms at all but the plane is very good, i love it
As a fairly new player I would love to hear your view on what order to spade a plane, I am going tier by tier, but should I concentrate on fire power or survivability first then go back and do the other levels?
best way to spade out planes is USUALLY build the performance and structural parts. after flying one out for the first time I will figure if it needs more speed, more turn, and thats the stats I look for first. there are exceptions... bombers... build up its bomb load to something easier to bomb the bases with but keep an eye on climb rate penalties and if you have to add some performance to carry the load. the second Stirling however is bugged in its card and its climb rate is not accurate. there are a couple of planes I build guns of first... like the Yak-9UT so I could put in the 45mm. btu that thing is an amazing ground pounder and flys very well even without the upgrades so didnt hurt me to build guns first. tanks 95% of the time I build the parts>horizontal, adjustment, elevation, best round. then double back for the performance stuff starting from engine and working your way back. engine>trans>filters>tracks. if its a light or medium I pick up artillery before the engine.
yeah i was thinking about going for that jet knowing yaks i would probably rip my wings off almost everytime due to not watching my altitude / speed.. and with that guy using smoke that is a bad decision.. not going to lie i use smoke too but if its the last guy alive and i see his red name like yesterday i was flying the israeli spitfire 4.3 and i came acrossed a ki-43 4.0 i had the altitude advantaged so i turned my smoke on and i did a split S and he turned left and i went up and over to get on his six as he was still turning and for some unknown reason he decided to turn right and flew right into my guns.. i was surprised he didn't keep turning in the long run he probably could of won that fight.. with most of the japanese tree has some of the best turning planes.. british is 2nd for spitfires for dogfighting in my opinion*
yak 15 shares the shape the everything of the Yak 3 .. Yak -9 was inferior to yak 3...and actually the Yak 3 was an upgraded separate model .. form the Yak 1 series. that move to Yak 7 and then Yak 9.. the Yak 3 was a different idea in the concept .. and that make it a huge airplane! actually the prototype was the Yak-3 jumo .. after the Russians capture some Jumo 004 engines. so that airplane is limited cause has the base of yak 3 .. so the wings have the same as Yak 3 max tolerance. the Yak 15 engine is the Klimov RD-10 that means that is copy of the Jumo 004 series ..
The history behind this thing is quite interesting, highly recommended the video by Skyships Eng :)
Basically yak design bureau took a yak-3 and slapped a jet engine on it
This thing is worth it, just purely for the fact that it is one of the best trainer for someone getting into early jets and overall teaches not only some aspects of jets, but also allows reverting to prop maneuverability. And finally, it is THE best teaching plane (actually the Yak-15P version) for trigger discipline, exactly due to its weakness of the low ammo count, but coupled with its amazing handling making for a stable gun platform.
A jet that can reach its rip speed in a straight line with almost no compression... this thing is insane.
That has more to do with the rip speed being low than it being fast
I always get uptiered...and I do better. The super props can be very difficult but the early jets are fun to murder lol 😆
yea, in downtiers i normally get 1 kill at most, but against 262s i know im having a great time
i just spaded the Yak-15 and 15P, and im surprised i didn't see more people flying it.
You REALLY need to work on your trigger discipline. You complain about your low ammo, and still shoot random rounds from way too far on the target, while approaching a 100% kill shot rapidly.
As someone who started on the Soviet air tree, seeing somebody who's clearly never had to much worry about ammo counts shoot gives me i m m e n s e anxiety.
@@TheMrFailz this comment. I started as soviet air and I learned trigger discipline very quickly.
Still blows my mind the ammo amount the a10 gets
Just needs to learn better flying in general.
Chasing and shooting with friendly planes in his target area.
Flying towards airfield with no ammo before checking where the airfield is ending up flying in the complete opposite direction of his airfield.
Going after planes below him when there are enemy planes above him.
These videos are like a perfect example of how NOT to fly properly.
It’s really bad lmao
As a Russia main I learned trigger discipline very quickly with the yak3u pulling 5-6 kill games with the little ammo Stalin bestowed upon me
Love these stock to Spaded keep them going!
stick with the 15P. yes it has one less gun.... but if you watch, both guns fire at the same time. means you hit with both or miss with both anyways. extremely rarely will you hit with one and not he other. why this makes a difference? with the cannons on these planes you only need one to land. with the 15P first time up I watched how my rounds flew. got 4 kills one assist and still had 15-16 rounds left. if it had alternating fire I would absolutely say it would be worth it. but stay in the 6.3 rather than the 6.7 plane, save the SL, and performance while VERY minor between the two, the P is actually slightly better.
One aircraft I had a lot of fun with spading was the kikka ..
It’s just fun starting super slow and only 50 rounds
Eventually getting up to 100 rounds and very strong engines
The Yak-15's have the russian copy of the Jumo-004B1
I could tell how smooth they fly by how one always seems to latch onto my tail.
I have played around 7 matches with the first yak-15 and so far ive done very good even when it was stock, i was always killed in a 2-3v1 because only 60rds of the 23mm is very very bad, im not fond of the 23mms at all but the plane is very good, i love it
"is it worth spading"
All vehicles must be spaded no matter how painful.
Especially now with the RP bonuses.
Can you do a stock to spaded with an Me 262?
I think I played with you on one of these matches. I was working on the spit Mk.22
i love the early jet yaks but the repair costs are just so astronomically high i cant rationalize playing them
I have the 3 versions, no regrets
I will wait for the Yak-23
Spolier:
It's damn good!
the repair cost makes me sad
@@reedworsham5643 That's the downside >:{
the yak 23 is basically a bigger yak 15, if u can research it, ive done it and i simply love it, just need to be aware of missiles in uptiers tho
Engine is derived from jumo 004 or me262 engine. Airframe is from yak 3 not yak9
Can next video be MiG 19PT stock to spaded?
This is an absolute BEAST in ground arcade if you get it
You mean air arcade?
@@wauweau No, ground arcade.
@@L3GIT349 ok
@@wauweau you can get random planes in ground ab
@@MageOtter27 i know, i just thought he meant in an air ab lineup
Can you do a stock to spaded video for the Kikka?
As a fairly new player I would love to hear your view on what order to spade a plane, I am going tier by tier, but should I concentrate on fire power or survivability first then go back and do the other levels?
best way to spade out planes is USUALLY build the performance and structural parts. after flying one out for the first time I will figure if it needs more speed, more turn, and thats the stats I look for first. there are exceptions... bombers... build up its bomb load to something easier to bomb the bases with but keep an eye on climb rate penalties and if you have to add some performance to carry the load. the second Stirling however is bugged in its card and its climb rate is not accurate. there are a couple of planes I build guns of first... like the Yak-9UT so I could put in the 45mm. btu that thing is an amazing ground pounder and flys very well even without the upgrades so didnt hurt me to build guns first.
tanks 95% of the time I build the parts>horizontal, adjustment, elevation, best round. then double back for the performance stuff starting from engine and working your way back. engine>trans>filters>tracks. if its a light or medium I pick up artillery before the engine.
you should do the xp-55. its pretty good
meh always gets uptiered and spend the whole match not being able to actually engage anything b/c everything's faster, otherwise it's super fun xD
yeah i was thinking about going for that jet knowing yaks i would probably rip my wings off almost everytime due to not watching my altitude / speed.. and with that guy using smoke that is a bad decision.. not going to lie i use smoke too but if its the last guy alive and i see his red name
like yesterday i was flying the israeli spitfire 4.3 and i came acrossed a ki-43 4.0 i had the altitude advantaged so i turned my smoke on and i did a split S and he turned left and i went up and over to get on his six as he was still turning and for some unknown reason he decided to turn right and flew right into my guns.. i was surprised he didn't keep turning in the long run he probably could of won that fight.. with most of the japanese tree has some of the best turning planes.. british is 2nd for spitfires for dogfighting in my opinion*
What does the smoke actually do other than look cool
yak 15 shares the shape the everything of the Yak 3 .. Yak -9 was inferior to yak 3...and actually the Yak 3 was an upgraded separate model .. form the Yak 1 series. that move to Yak 7 and then Yak 9.. the Yak 3 was a different idea in the concept .. and that make it a huge airplane!
actually the prototype was the Yak-3 jumo .. after the Russians capture some Jumo 004 engines.
so that airplane is limited cause has the base of yak 3 .. so the wings have the same as Yak 3 max tolerance.
the Yak 15 engine is the Klimov RD-10 that means that is copy of the Jumo 004 series ..
Have some mercy for a poor Honkton 229
In the right hands is a beast even in a uptier
Yak-15p teaches you trigger discipline.
Hit or go home.
I don't like it because I find it hard to control. Also I'm Germany main lol
Im sorry to hear about your condition. Get well soon!
@@georgivanev7466 thank you, I am already in therapy because of teammates just not angling and being the Standart wheraboo
It is quite fun
The best part of this craft isbthat it is a YAK the worst part is that it is a yak.
Why apologise for doing the same video idea
First