aircraft/loadouts Yakovlev Yak-6

[Traingle_ 179]

P.S This is my first post regarding the Russian air force so nice comments!

 

Yakovelv is well known for making fighters during the Second World War. But have you ever heard of the Yak-6? If not, here's some information about this forgotten plane.

 

The Yakovlev Yak-6 was a Soviet twin-engined utility aircraft, developed and built during World War II. It was used as a short-range light night bomber and a light transport.

 

Conceived as a light utility transport, the twin-engined low-wing Yakovlev Yak-6 was largely of wooden construction and flown for the first time in June 1942; it had retractable tailwheel landing gear and accommodated two crew and four passengers. An NBB (or short-range night bomber) version had external racks for five 100kg bombs under the fuselage and provision for a single 7.7mm ShKAS machine-gun, but the Yak-6 could also be equipped to carry stores or freight (including a 500kg external load) or for use as an ambulance aircraft, glider tug or close-support aircraft carrying 10 RS-82 rockets. Often flown with the main landing gear units locked down, the Yak-6 was also used to supply partisans, and by 1944 most operational units had one of these aircraft to ferry personnel between bases. Production totalled about 1,000.

 

The Yak-6M was an improved version which finally led to the somewhat larger Yak-8, the prototype of which was first flown at the beginning of 1944. This was to have been a dedicated transport, essentially for military use, with accommodation for up to six passengers, but in the absence of anticipated higher-power engines its performance was disappointing and no series production ever took place.

 

Specifications(Yak-6 (1943 production)):

 

 

Crew: two

Capacity: four passengers (Of cause passengers won't be added in WT)

Length: 10.35 m (33 ft 11 in)

Wingspan: 14.0 m (45 ft 11 in)

Wing area: 29.6 m2 (319 sq ft)

Airfoil: Clark-YH

Empty weight: 1,415 kg (3,120 lb)

Gross weight: 2,300 kg (5,071 lb)

Powerplant: 2 × Shvetsov M-11F 5-cylinder radial engines, 100 kW (140 hp) each

 

Performance

Maximum speed: 187 km/h (116 mph; 101 kn)

Range: 900 km (559 mi; 486 nmi)

Service ceiling: 3,380 m (11,089 ft)

Time to altitude: 5.4 min to 1,000 m (3,300 ft)

 

Armament

Guns: 1 × ShKAS machine gun in dorsal position

Rockets: provision for 10 × RS 82 rockets

Bombs: Up to 500 kg (1,102 lb) bombs

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

I think this would make a great gift plane as this is pretty much a twin engined Po-2. What do you guys think? You decide in the poll and comments!

 

Have a brilliant day!!

 

 

 

Spoiler

Sources:

 

http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/yak-6.php

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-6

 

Edited October 20, 2016 by SAUBER_KH7
Fixed title typo.

[SAUBER_KH7 3,326]

Open for Discussion.

[Thug Shaker Actual 225]

This looks really cool, would be awesome to have as a trophy plane. +1

[Garfield_Pilot 1,596]

Sure, it could be added as a gift.

But my grandma's sewing machine was nore powerful than the ones on that aircraft. It would be painfully slow, and has a very low climb rate. It will be minced meat at any BR.

[igeticsu 3,400]

Sooo a heavy fighter version of the Po-2? i want it!

[Traingle_ 179]

18 hours ago, Garfield62709 said:

Sure, it could be added as a gift.

But my grandma's sewing machine was nore powerful than the ones on that aircraft. It would be painfully slow, and has a very low climb rate. It will be minced meat at any BR.

So is the Po-2 and Kingfisher.

[The_Strafer 131]

This looks awesome +1

[DMSPKSP 105]

2 years on, and I think this plane has a solid place in the game. It would be confined to 1.3 or 1.0, but honestly I think it would still do well. I'd have it as a premium or gift aircraft, would be fun to have.

+1

[Milocat 4,848]

+1, would be a fun gift plane.

[onemax9000 1,242]

In game airlines 

Italians: SM-81

Germans: FW200

Americans: pby-5 and some b17’s

British: sunderland

Japan: idk they used every aircraft to kamikaze.

France: F.222 (F.220)

Russia: yak-6

(I don’t care if this is not a airliner Russia needs something like the others gib now plz +1)

Edited November 8, 2018 by onemax9000

[Z3r0_ 4,127]

Could be added as a BR 1.0 bomber.  It'd be better than the Po-2, but not by much.

[hom3er 154]

air ambulance with center line rockets and bombs is all I need to hear.

 

+1