Yak-38 is absolutely bonkers
Effectively Mach 1 on the deck in a straight line, 4 R-60’s and is reasonably good in a dogfight once you get your vtol thrusters down and put dampening on. I can fight Crusaders and Corsair II’s in this thing like it’s nothing. They don’t even know what to do. It’s pretty difficult to use when it’s stock, but once you get a gun and the R-60’s mod, I love this thing more than the MiG-19’s and 21’s.
Think people really clowned on this thing before for being a worse and shitty Harrier, but man I haven’t had more fun in it. Now I want to get the 141 to see how it stacks up.