Yak-9T - incredible firepower (or maybe incredible tank's lack of armor?)

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Art-J

If you're trying to hit a tank from 100 m, or even 300, diving at 45 degrees and above, it's highly unlikely that you're going to pull out of a dive at all . A bit too low for these kind of stunts I'd say!

Maybe. If you shoot just as you come out of your dive and you're not going too fast you can sometimes make it. I agree that it's not something a real life pilot would do, though.

Alternately, you can strafe at 20 m or less, getting a nearly 0 degree angle off shot at a tank's rear side or turret armor. That works too, but again it's far more aggressive than a real life pilot would be.