The Yak-3U Is PEAK 

The Luftwaffe issued an order in 1944 to "avoid combat below five thousand metres with Yakovlev fighters lacking an oil cooler intake beneath the nose!" Should be all you need to know that it's a bad idea to fight these things at low alt.

“But would you lose though? Nah, You’d win.” -Dutch guy🪱on his Yak 3U

1:30 HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

One thing I’ve learned from watching Defyn is that energy is stored in the balls.

Team-mates. What an oxymoron when playing WarThunder. This week, I flew the 163 for the first time, stock. Got 1 kill and baited without ammo to allow my team-mate to get 4 kills, announced that I was RTB but he kept up a turn fight and died. He then proceeded to call me garbage and to never fly the 163 again. I am shit, but not as shit as him. Gotta love these lads, their mums expect as much.

Every prop feels almost sluggish after flying this absolute Speed Freak. I put this thing in a stall climb from the deck at around 650kph, and it stalled out at around 8000 ft BONKERS.

That wasn't you clapping those were your clogs stomping the ground

The combination of the ai spongebob music at random times and the breaking bad jokes made this video fucking hilarious 💀

Buying Yak-3 (VK-107) by a Defyn advise was one of the best purchases i did in this game. For a fighter with a radial engine i prefer La-7, because i have a soft spot for Lavockins because of the old USSR war movie, but Yak-3U is definitely one of the strongest 5.7 in the game. Great to see Dutch guy back in the saddle of WW2 fighters, love to see his slower and more methodical gameplay with props.

Love it when you cover ww2 props. I find it entertaining. Keep up the good work!

YOU KNOW THE KRAB LIKE MONEY YOU KNOW THE SPONGE LIKE FUN YOU KNOW THE STAR KEEP SHININ YOU KNOW THE SQUID LIKE GUNS

Ah! The good old battles in propeller planes. An era where dogfighting skills mattered a lot.

I never would have thought that you listen to “The Bottom 2” the minute I heard that diamonds line I fucking knew and I got the widest smile on my face.

nobody talking about how he landed back at the airfield after losing an entire wing at 3:59. wild

Defyn lives in an alternate universe where J9 Early was never added

The M163 thats pissed you killed his meth cook lmao

6:10 Did not know DEFYN was also a Glorb enjoyer. The Bottom 2 is an absolute banger.

Honestly it's a good feeling of seeing a Defyn video after coming back from work. It kinda feels like going to that class with a good teacher that knows his subject and makes the hour enjoyable. He explains so well and with humor, it's easy to learn now if only I learned how to act in early game lol

All shots hit the Lancaster between the fuselage and the first engine but somehow he loses the wing past the first engine 😅

Man it's so cool that gaijin puts m163s and SAMs in matches with almost all WW2 planes

@DEFYN You can install virtual sound card to send all the game sound to it, then forward to your "real" sound card. When you record you only record audio from the virtual sound card. So any discord talk will not be recorded. VB-Audio is one way to do it. Same goes for any commentary you record after if you set it up the same way no discord talk will ruin the recording.

The last time I was this early, they just added the Churchill Crocodile. Been feeling a 3U vid for a while now because I almost have it! Thanks.

A bit funny that you make this video right after I finally get around to flying the Yak 3U for the first time in rb. It truly is a menace that should go up in br as much as I hate to say it. Suggestion to add to the plane list: Try out the Yak 9M. It's basically a 9K/T but with the standard 20mm instead, and it's 3.7

Bottom 2 is my favorite, this used to be my favorite plane a few years back it was like 4.0 or 4.3 then they sent the repair cost through the roof, but that plane made it feel easy

I’ve been looking for another Yak-3U vid for ages, you read my mind (I play it lots)

6:19 GOATED SONG GOATED RU-vidR❤️❤️🫶

Love the video. Reckon you could do a video on the sabre as you haven’t for a while?

gonna head to the store and buy my favorite cookies to eat while watching you 😊 btw, would you try the japanese G8N1?

I hope that Yak 9 in the first game sent you a thank you gift basket

Ah that explain my experience with the F-82 one time. I used the I-225 right after realShatter went from 20mm hitting like 30mm cannons to 20mm cannons hitting like 20mm cannons again and fired so much ammo into the F-82 that I thought that 20mm cannons were nerfed to be unusable. But I guess it's just the F-82s damage model. I think that's an issue with some planes in general, when Gaijin forgets to make planes being able to break appart, they simple won't die because their damage model is so bad that planes basically need to lose a wing or tail 90% of the time to become unflyable. Imagine a 20mm HEFI actually destroying a plane by causing lethal damage when hitting a vital component instead of Gaijin just cranking structural damage to the max. to the point where AP or Incendiary are completely overshadowed.

Looks fun, need to try it out

imo the tracer belts hits quite hard if you land even one shot, it kinda feels like mg 151's mine shots

Yeah i was surprised to beat a P51h yesterday in it while almost stock. it's pretty damn good

It's true the VK is only better btwn about 3.5 to 6 km but that's actually a fairly important altitude range, that's essentially where you need to be to have an altitude advantage, at least early game, and the VK beats the Yak-3U there. I slightly prefer the VK but personal preference ig

loved this one. cheers.

This and the 9UT in Ground RB are a fun time.

You should make a montage of every time you say "and he just flies into my guns" lol.

I've been finding that last part of the video to be a quite common occurrence especially in jets. They get one guy on them and they don't even try to put up a fight, they just slam it into the dirt, kiss a couple trees and leave

Funny how just like in his last Yak-3U video, he ended up reversing an A7M2.

thank you for TK'ing that 152H back, Defyn. I appreciate your service.

"Im on a bit of a cool down" fucking epic

It would be really nice if you could make videos on the VG.33 and J 22. They're real hidden gems that none of the CCs seem to cover.

what's the best ammo to use? I usually use HE

greatest outro ive ever seen

@defyn Potential noob question, but looking at 06:49 for example- on a very basic level how do you control your plane this "delicately" while looking at the enemy at the same time? Myself I'd use "tapping WASD" while using my mouse to look at the enemy, but that's nowhere near as smooth? Are you just draging the mouse in this situation or using freelook or....? Many thanks!

Defyn: casually explaining his prowess Everyone else: AHHHHHHHHH

How are you feeling about the new damage thing?

I sit at like 7:1 kdr in this thing while lawn-darting directly into every furball, it really is the craziest plane in the game (besides the BI-1)

Yeah this plane is kinda busted. I have it and it’s one of my favorite post war props. It’s not impossible to deal with but dogfights are a big no-no. Good vid Deafen

@DEFYN please take the La-200 for a ride!

You should make a vid on the yak3p I did a dogfight against it in the 3u and I’ve never been closer in my life

yak -3u is a menace. It's straight line speed, turn rate and climb rate make it an amazing aircraft, even those extra IAS dive speeds help with boom and zoom.

sucks that the so8000 outplayed defyn at the end

Just had a game were we had 5 premium A7m1's plus 2 A7m2's and I thought we had it in the bag before it started. Unfortunately none of the other A7 pilots were trained off DEFYN's videos but I was. So they all died in about a minute LMAO but I made it to the end with the high score 3 or 4 kills cant remember. THANK YOU DEFYN for teaching me to fly!

youre making me wanna start using that plane XD

If I was forced to fly the Narwal I'd probably just give the deck a high-velocity hug too...

Such balance, teamkill magnet, totally earned.

What do you think of Severe Damage and the Written Off mechanic of "dying" because of damage at the end of a match won or lost on tickets?

Love this prop, straight up op

I love the JJK references in almost every video

That shit about the A7M couldn't be more right. I bought the premium one (A7M1 NK9H) and that shit was printing me SL, only really finding some few aircraft tricky to deal with.

Defyn with ww2 planes is peak content

Them M163 Luv DEFYN 😁

I've never flown the Yak-3U, when I was doing my USSR grind I used the Yak-9U to get to the MiG-15. Perhaps I should give the 3U a shot sometime.

Hello, i love your videos! Would you be interested in doing one on an FW-190 A? I struggle with those planes but every documentary makes them seem really good but i just dont get whats so special about them. Cheers!

@DEFYN can you make a video of the Yak 3T please ?

The ending lol😂

DEFYN out of context 4:21 3:39 ✊ 5:05 6:12 nice song 7:18 7:55 9:43 10:38 11:02 14:47 15:05 15:44 16:13

played it 2 weeks ago.. it was a blast :)

Yak-3s have got to be some of my favourites to fly in the whole game if I want to turn off my brain, especially the French premium Yak (I forgot how many golden eagles that one cost)

Fun to fight these in the j2m2. 152H is another great matchup. The lack of overheating feels cheap, i find it suspicious the soviets built engines that durable considering the previous track record of aircraft engines

I love the 3U because its just hella clean

We need another Defyn out of context video.

Honestly all those Yak's, La's, IL's and all that clearly non-bias'ed stuff is scary. I'm average at best, and have tried Yak in RB a few times and was dominating, way too easy IMO When transitioning to a nation without those planes you risk hitting a wall, because you can't do anything the Yak/La/IL can't do (and often better). And likewise, it's easy to get complacent with ace maker plane.

Defyn listening to glorb is so shocking and awesome

1:37 you can almost see him think about stealing that but he doesn’t. Be like defyn

s.o8000 knew you couldn't follow his turn into the afterlife.

Finalllllllly one of my favourite planes😍😍😍

a the maneuver .. "na i can crash".. amazing maneuver!! i saw it is many planes.. is a new trend!! amazing for loosing airplanes.. and that maneuver works with the tanks too!!!

*posted 1 minute ago.* Wow i really loved that part where you did that thing-

I wish I had 10% of Defyn's piloting skills lol

Defyn when Ta152h1 VS Yak 3u

One of these caught me as a was rtb, I was in a P51 and I swear I was supposed to be at least 20mph faster than this Yak-3? Am I missing something? In flat level flight according to the WT plane stats, I should have been pulling away but in the end he stayed with me and caught me up? How is this, as I say, am I missing some important info? Thanks...;D

I also have bad luck in this thing against 109s - specifically the K model.

0:21 did bro say thermodynamics

Man these guys that just slam their plane into the ground after losing the first 10 seconds of the dogfight are hilarious. They really think theyre doing something by instantly giving up and acknowledging they can never beat you

Tbh, I personally still feel the P-51H is better in the end. While yes, the Yak-3U is pretty agile and has massive balls for storing energy, the P-51H's WEP is like an afterburner, its climb rate is better, its top speed is higher, its rip speed is much higher and can abuse boom and zooming better, altitude play is something I feel is better at winning games than lower altitude performance.

wish they had the mig 3U. My fave ww2 plane.

can you do a vid on the p51h?

Actuallyt the Supercharger #2 takes over above 4000m and you gain power until 5ish thousand meters. Despite the WEP turning grey. 6000M is really where the engine powers becomes a weakness.

This reminds me of the Zero gameplay, wanting to turn in the direction of the enemy before they pass you so you can get shots on them quickly. Only difference is this thing has insane performance

Can you do a video with your control scheme? I am pretty new to ARB and I want to see what good people use.

Listening to ai Bikinibottom characters beefing with eachother while playing is actually fucking crazy💀

The guns tho the guns are just insane

we makin it out the Vaalserberg with this one 😩😈

FINALLY

can you make a video of the f-86f2 sabre day 4

We making it out Bikini Bottom with this one 🔥🔥

Nice

Larry hit em with MEOW MEOW MEOW