Optimal Climb Speed for Russian Props

Climbing at the specified Indicated Air Speed will allow you to reach 6 kilometers in the least amount of time.

Make sure to enable indicated air speed in the options before using information in this guide.

The chart contains most propeller airplanes, some jets, and most bombers.

For those of you who use Manual Engine Controls:

• Set all available radiator flaps to 100% (open).
  
• Set mixture to rich as appropriate.
  
• Set propeller pitch to 100%.
  
• Adjust mixture accordingly throughout flight to maintain maximum engine RPM and optimal horsepower, subject to altitude.
  
• Change supercharger gears at recorded horsepower output/elevation.

Refer to these for individual airplane quirks.

* <100% mixture not modeled.
** Supercharger Stage 2 does not have WEP.
*** It is not possible to climb to 3000m from SL on WEP without overheating the engine.
**** Recommend using auto prop pitch to avoid over revving the engine. Otherwise, there is no prop governor to prevent over revving.
***** Reduce propeller pitch to 94% when on WEP. Optimum horsepower and thrust from the engine on WEP is attained at 2600RPM.
****** If climbing to 6000m from SL on WEP the engine may overheat.
******* Due to fixed propeller pitch, excessive speeds will over rev the engine. Reduce throttle.
******** Yak-38/M is listed with a Mach Number rather than km/h and only 95% thrust. Information taken from War Thunder forums.

Based on chart made by The_Kiwi and information from data sheets available on War Thunder forums.

https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/forum/466-soviet-union/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgHbWlSjefFhCqOUeGpoKQntdQDPG32X7XQo9EqDF00/

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Some additional contributions made by:
ZadaNotZaida

If you find any mistakes or have additional information contact me and I will add it to the chart.

Yakovlev Design Bureau

Change your speed indicator to IAS in the options before using this chart.

For some airplanes the speed varies when WEP is active.

Name	100%(km/h)	WEP(km/h)	Super Charger Stage 2 [m]	Super Charger Stage 2 [hp]
Yak-1 **	230	230	100%: 3300 WEP: 3700	100%: 972 WEP: 987
Yak-1B	240		100%: 2050	100%: 1104
Yak-3	250		100%: 1600	100%: 1144
Yak-3P	250		100%: 1600	100%: 1144
Yak-3U	280	280	100%: 3100 WEP: 3100
Yak-7B	230		100%: 2000	100%: 1103
Yak-9	230		100%: 2000	100%: 1104
Yak-9B	230		100%: 1950	100%: 1104
Yak-9T	230		100%: 2000	100%: 1104
Yak-9K	230		100%: 2000	100%: 1104
Yak-9U	250	250	100%: 2700 WEP: 2400	100%: 1451 WEP: 1526
Yak-9P	250	250	100%: 2700 WEP: 2400	100%: 1451 WEP: 1526
Yak-9UT	250	250	100%: 2700 WEP: 2400	100%: 1451 WEP: 1526
Yak-15	460
Yak-17	460
Yak-23	550	550
Yak-30	600	600
Yak-38M ********		0.85(M)

Polikarpov Design Bureau

Name	100%(km/h)	WEP(km/h)	Super Charger Stage 2 [m]	Super Charger Stage 2 [hp]
I-15 bis	180	180
I-153 M-62 ***	190	200	100%: 2300 WEP: 1000	100%: 800 WEP: 965
I-16 type 5 *******	160	160
I-16 type 10 *******	190	190
I-16 type 18 ***	210	220	100%: 2500 WEP: 1600	100%: 757 WEP: 891
I-16 type 24 ***	220	230	100%: 3200 WEP: 2500	100%: 845 WEP: 979
I-16 type 27 ***	210	220	100%: 2500 WEP: 1600	100%: 757 WEP: 891
I-185(M-82)	230	240	100%: 3950 WEP: 2550	100%: 1146 WEP: 1367
I-185(M-71)	240	240	100%: 4000 WEP: 2550	100%: 1478 WEP: 1776
I-225	270	270
MiG-3-15	220	240
MiG-3-15(BK)	220	240
MiG-3-34 ******	230	250
MiG-9	550
MiG-9 (L)	520	520
MiG-15	650
MiG-15bis	710
MiG-17	750
MiG-19PT		1050
MiG-21F-13	950	1050
MiG-21SMT	950	1050
MiG-21PFM	950	1020
MiG-23M	1100	1100
MiG-27M	1100	1100

Lavochkin Design Bureau

Name	100%(km/h)	WEP(km/h)	Super Charger Stage 2 [m]	Super Charger Stage 2 [hp]
LaGG-3-8 **	230	230	100%: 3250 WEP: 3250	100%: 980 WEP: 980
LaGG-3-11 **	230	230	100%: 3250 WEP: 3250	100%: 980 WEP: 980
LaGG-3-35	220		100%: 1850	100%: 1125
LaGG-3-66	220		100%: 1850	100%: 1118
La-5 **	240	250	100%: 3800 WEP: 3850	100%: 1270 WEP: 1275
La-5F **	240	240	100%: 3750 WEP: 3850	100%: 1270 WEP: 1275
La-5FN **	250	250	100%: 3300 WEP: 3600	100%: 1378 WEP: 1390
La-7 **	260	260	100%: 3350 WEP: 3650	100%: 1378 WEP: 1390
La-7B-20 **	260	260	100%: 3350 WEP: 3650	100%: 1378 WEP: 1390
La-9 **	260	260	100%: 3100 WEP: 3100	100%: 1389 WEP: 1389
La-200	700

Attackers

Attacker climb rates from data sheets available on War Thunder forums.

Not all attackers are available, no super charger gear information is provided.

Name	100%(km/h)	WEP%(km/h)
Po-2	90
BB-1	230
Su-2 MV-5	230
Su-2 TSS-1	230
Su-2 (M-82)	270
Su-6 (AM-42)	270	270
Su-6 (M-71F)	270	270
Su-7B		1000
Su-7BKL		1000
Su-17M2	1000	1050
Su-9	500
IL-2 (1941)	240	240
IL-2 (1942)	250	250
IL-2-37	250	250
IL-2M (1943)	250	250
IL-2M type 3	250	250
IL-28	430
IL-28Sh	430
Yak-2 KABB	270

Bombers

Bomber climb rates from data sheets available on War Thunder forums.

Unfortunately very few Russian bomber data sheets are available.

Name	100%(km/h)	WEP%(km/h)
Yak-4	270	270
Pe-8	190
DB-3B	195
IL-4	195
Yer-2 (M-105)	240
Yer-2 (ACh-30B) (e)	220
Yer-2 (ACh-30B) (l)	220
Tu-4	290	290
Tu-14T	450

Premium

Name	100%(km/h)	WEP(km/h)	Super Charger Stage 2 [m]	Super Charger Stage 2 [hp]
Zhukovsky's I-153-M62 ***	190	200	100%: 2300 WEP: 1000	100%: 800 WEP: 965
LaGG-3-23	270	270
LaGG-3-34	230		100%: 1950	100%: 1118
I-301	270	270
I-180S	255
I-29 *****	220	230	100%: 3050 WEP: 3250	100%: 995 WEP: 1004
I-153P ***	190	200	100%: 2300 WEP: 1000	100%: 800 WEP: 965
I-16 type 28 ***	220	230	100%: 3250 WEP: 2500	100%: 845 WEP: 979
Dolgushin's La-7 **	260	260	100%: 3350 WEP: 3650	100%: 1378 WEP: 1390
Yak-3T	250		100%: 1600	100%: 1144
La-11	260	260
Yak-3(VK-107)	250	260	100%: 2700 WEP: 2400	100%: 1450 WEP: 1525
Be-6	210	210
Golovachev's Yak-9M	260
Su-11	500
Yak-38 ********	0.85(M)
Tu-1		275

Foreign Premium

Name	100%(km/h)	WEP(km/h)	Super Charger Stage 2 [m]	Super Charger Stage 2 [hp]
Hurricane Mk IIB	220	220	100%: 4100 WEP: 3050	100%: 1081 WEP: 1313
P-40E-1	210	210
P-39K-1 *	210	210
Pokryshkin's P-39N-0 *	220	220
P-63A-5 *	220	220
P-63A-10 *	220	240
P-63C-5 *	220	250
P-47D-27	240	240
Fw 190 D-9 ****	240	240

[Esports Ready]

XP-50: All that for an extra meter?

[local drunk driver]

are you insane?

[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.]

All of this is irrelevant, it is russian so it is by default op and has many hidden stats sheeple does not know about, as well as better MM, god forbid that one could get 1 good round with germans...

[Takkie_Lo]

need ITP info ASAP

[KernelPopcorn]

Why is the LaGG-3-23's climb speed so much higher than the other LaGGs?

[xdrianx]

I have to disagree with the yak-9t, ideal climb spped is 310 km/h with a 16-17 °

[Bumblebee]

Could you add mig-21bis?

[wastoid]

Sorry no info on the ITP yet.

[StarKnight]

Can you please add the ITP (m-1) Premium? Awsome chat!

[MoffatCam]

legend! )))