![]() If downtiered, Boom & Zoom is the tactic that should be employed with the Yak-30 it is key to keep your speed above 750 km/h at all times to give yourself a chance of running away if the engagement you are partaking in turns into the enemies favour. The two right mounted cannons can be fired independently of the left mounted one, allowing for potential conservation of ammunition. ![]() 3 x 23 mm NR-23 cannons, chin-mounted (75 rpg = 225 total).Overall the plane is very similar to the La-15, the only difference being slightly worse roll rate, higher speed limit and better turn rate. It also has access to an airbrake that can keep it from reaching the structural speed limit (1,080 km/h IAS) and flaps which can be extended in three positions that can improve the turning performance a lot, but their speed limit is low, in combat position it is around 500 km/h IAS. The G limits are high for this kind of plane, the player will not have to worry about breaking a wing. This along with quite good roll rate which can reach up to 115 degrees per second makes the plane very good in dogfight situations at low and medium speed, but once it starts getting close to transonic speeds the Yak-30 will start to suffer from high speed compressibility and make aiming difficult. The turn rate performance is very good, it can perform a full horizontal circle in around 20 seconds, which is a very good time, close to propeller driven planes. The main downside is the engine overheating, it cannot fly at full power for too long, the time limit is 5 minutes and 10 minutes for flying at 100%. The same about the climb rate performance, at sea level it is close to ~40 m/s, better when compared to jet fighters from other nations. ![]() Thrust to weight ratio which is 0.45 is comparable to its main real life competitors, the MiG-15 and La-15. Its acceleration is better than in many other jet fighters at similar battle rating, for example a F-84G, F2H or M.D.452. Although it uses the same Klimov RD-500 engine compared to its predecessor due to aerodynamics improvements the maximum level speed is over 100 km/h higher and can reach 1026 km/h at sea level when flying at 112% of power. The Yak-30 is the first plane from the Yakovlev line of fighters to incorporate swept wings. However, unlike the Yak-23, the Yak-30D has an airbrake to lose that unnecessary speed when needed. ![]() The aircraft compresses significantly at high speeds and control of the aircraft is tricky, thus for avoiding missiles or starting dogfights it is better to lose speed to around 800-900 km/h. However, the engine is better accelerating at lower speeds and at more than 850 km/h it loses energy relatively fast in any manoeuvres. The Yak-30D excels at high speed performance (around 800-900 km/h), it's capable of more than 1,000 km/h at sea level when the thrust is set to 112%, note that this extra power consumes more fuel. The Yak-30D is a very capable jet fighter with a playstyle very similar to that of contemporary Soviet fighters like the La-15 and MiG-15. It was introduced in Update 1.59 "Flaming Arrows". This new variant showed good results but the superior MiG-15 was already in production and thus the project was cancelled. The aircraft test trials started after its first flight in 1948 but it proved unsatisfactory, thus a new version with most of the problems fixed was developed, the Yak-30D. The Yak-30 was a completely new design based on the experimental Yak-25, however this variant included a swept wing for better performance at high speeds. The Yak-30 was Yakovlev's attempt to compete with Mikoyan-Gurevich after the limited success of the Yak-23 and all their jets using the Yak-3 fuselage.
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