Comments by "Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake" (@CakePrincessCelestia) on "The Soviet Fighter That Couldn’t Shoot Its Guns | The MiG-9 Story" video.

  1. Probably just constant turn rate. It would bleed off more speed when turning than the 262 due to the wing design. And it literally had the same engines. We all have heard the stories of the 262 being most vulnerable right after takeoff with basically no speed. Same applies here. Took ages to get it up to speed.
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  2. Without having watched the video yet, I do remember this issue very well from Il-2 '46, especially with the I-300 prototype sporting the massive 57mm cannon. I was one of the three virtual pilots on the entire planet who managed to be successful with that thing without constantly losing the engines simply because I fricken knew to throttle back before firing that thing. Much more modern planes had similar issues BTW. Just recently got the Mirage F1 for DCS and learnt that it has a throttle back automatic going when firing the DEFAs for the same reason. And the F-14A does the same by the way. Fun fact: The RD-20 basically is a BMW 003.
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  3. There's been two rookie mistakes... this (throttle back a lot before shooting) and tailstriking on takeoff by pulling too hard :D
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  4. In East Germany people waited for 20+ years to get their Trabbi, in the Soviet Union people waited for 20+ years to get a pair of boots! :D
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  5.  @PaperSkiesAviation  Yes, I mean they even took the production facilities to produce those engines themselves. I wonder how far their own reseach was during that time. At least they had a rocket powered interceptor before Germany did, and its fuels was way less dangerous during the refueling process... you could make an episode about it, it's the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-x series, sometimes also called Bolkhovitinov after the design bureau's head. Would perfectly fit into your channel covering the less well-known things :)
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  6. I didn't (it often would not play ads anyway in my FF even if I disabled it), but decided to let it run in the background in Microsofts browser downloader (Edge) that doesn't have a blocker installed, turned it down to 144p and also 2x speed (according to Linus Sebastian, this counts fully as if you watched at 1x in regards of revenue) for saving traffic and energy :)
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  7. Il-2 '46 would like to know your location :)
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  8. Quiet firing be like:
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  9. Good old times! /)
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  10. Same here. But I remember the engine flameouts. You just had to throttle back far enough (like 20-30ish %) though and not shoot too long salvos to prevent this from happening.
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  11. Guess they completely went with the solution shown at 12:55 which just was problematic for the center mounted gun.
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  12.  @str8ballinSA  Black Death literally was the benchmark "level" back in the day. Counted way more than any 3DMark or other thing. But I never used FRAPS with it... instead I opened up the console and entered >fps start show :)
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  13.  @str8ballinSA  True. Seeing Avg. and especially Min. at the end in Il-2 was good enough for me though.
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