Yeah, but overall I think the KR is stronger at 13.7 than the 35 is at 14.3. Mainly due to the lack of CM’s and you are also stuck with a narrow gimbal radar, which doesn’t pair well with R-77 gameplay.
MAWS is nice to have but it’s not that valuable
Although i haven’t unlocked MiG-35 yet, I feel like it could’ve been better off with Zhuk-M at 14.0
Even though it is inferior to 27SM, i like the 29K a lot. +0.3 increase would be absolutely worth it for R-77-1 + 30km MAW alongside with the new flight model. ±60° gimbal is really a let-down, especially now that everyone has their pseudo tvc missile. You want to crank as hard as possible while guiding your own missile.
The FM is incredibly good in a dogfight, but it’s at a BR where supersonic FM is more relevant and where being a subsonic monster isn’t as useful.
You’ll just get outpushed by missile spam and you need to be very frugal with your countermeasure usage. Having a low gimbal radar makes it harder to defend yourself and doesn’t make as much use of the insanely “thrust-vectoring” R-77.
I will probably crew it soon myself. But I doubt the experience will be as good as the MiG-29KR
MiG-35’s airframe also gets insanely draggy past mach 1
You are slower than a super hornet
It’s even slightly more draggy than the 29KR. I think it’s because of the sensors under the fuselage.
The engines don’t get that hot, though. Why is that? They share the same engines.
MiG-29 SMT and N only have 6 ARH or less with you want Short range IR or ERs or ETs
KR uses a special emergency thrust at 110% which overheats the engines (carrier doesn’t have a launcher like American ones)
MiG-35 doesn’t have this
I assumed the engines were the same because they have the same name in the game.
But after looking into it the 29KR has considerably more thrust than the MiG-35.
So my previous assumption that the MiG-35 might have a little less drag is probably incorrect. The 29KR can just push through with the extra thrust.
The 35 is lighter, though, but the 29KR still has more TWR