Why I dislike IL-2 games..

[olife]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

No doubt pilot knowledge is important, but just going on statistics of the planes, a P-51 against a Yak-3 or others wouldn't stand a chance at low altitudes; and we're talking the VK-105PF-2 Klimov engine. Not the VK-107 or 108 which had terrible problems; and even the engines powering the Yaks in Korea had terrible engines as well.

Anyway, that's weird they had Yak-7s and La-7s in Korea. Most were just basic Yak-9s and La-9s that were just another varient. (And it was always, even through WW2, known that Yak-9s had engine problems like none other.) But more to the point, I thought the only Yak-7s were the UTI variants that were just trainers, not actual Yak-7s like from WW2.

Plus, just to add something more to this. The Yak's and La's used in Korea, actually had significant armor upgrades which slowed them down, they added radios, and other things that Western Front planes in WW2 had. So they were nothing like the Yaks and Las of WW2... just thought I'd also point that out to anyone.

Thanks for the info though Olife, do you mind linking us to the site you got that info from. I'd like to look into that.

hello bud

totaly agree with u,soviet ace,and yes the yak7 shoot down by the first f82 was a trainer.i think if the pilots of the yaks and las in korea were all soviet veterans ,the work for the us pilots was not easy(the aces of aces of korea war is the russian colonel yevgeni pepelyaev 23 kills).it is right too that the unofficial results of many us jet pilots is korea can be more important that the official results because they go in the forbidden area (jump the yalu river)
to fight and the air kills of the "forbidden area" were not confirm.
to speak again about the russians ww2 planes,the best germans aces said that the la and yak series can outturn the fw190s and me109s.the soviets know how to built a good planes.

source about korea war dogfights:a book called KOREAN WAR ACES by osprey publishing (it is a serie of good books and i have the collecting of the french version:60 books of 60 pages,the english version is better with more pages and more color profiles)
u must find it on internet i think

good hunting bud