First: Thank you for the enormous effort.
It tells me some of my ingame perceptions are not too far off. Fw190s do obviously suffer from overdone damage from a few hits - while quite alot of hits are survivable, though the landing will be no fun.
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Originally Posted by Pursuivant
The Yak series of fighters is incredibly fragile. While the engines arguably are tougher than they "should" be, it hardly matters since their wings fall off so easily. If you're fighting a Yak, aim for the wing - at least if you've got .50 caliber or better guns.
The Yak-1, Yak-7 and Yak-3 series are quite fragile across the board - easy to flame engines, or to break control surfaces or wings. the only place that it's "overmodeled" is the fuselage - and that's probably correct. The Yak-9 series is much tougher - arguably exactly where it should be for all systems other than the engine - except for those incredibly fragile wings.
The only reason that the Yak series stands out as being "tough" is because some of the other important fighters in the game, like the Bf-109 series, are so fragile.
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I don't think the Yak family stands out for being tough because the Bf109 is so fragile. It stands out for being tough because it has an inline engine that is close to indestructible - while other planes, notably the P-40 and P-51 (though Bf109 not far off - and don't let me get started about the MiG-3 series - that thing burns no matter where and what hit it) have engines that regularly die from a few rifle caliber bullet hits. Wings may be too fragile, but Yaks are small and light, so damage should harm them more than bigger, tougher planes.
Bf109 not tough -yes. But maybe that is okay, there is nearly no part of that plane that can be hit without damaging something of value.
And compared to its "natural" counterpart - the Spit - it does not feel overly fragile IMHO.