Is the Mig-21 Lazur viable in 2026?

I’m getting bored with the pace of the grind using the squadron Hunter and was thinking about buying the Mig-21 Lazur during the sale. Is it still viable in 2026? I’ve seen some complaints from 2025 and earlier but nothing recent. It looks like they changed the missiles from R-60Ms to R-60MKs but I don’t know if that makes much of a difference at that tier.

It’s a good plane at 11.0, and the best premium in its rank for Germany imo.

They’re the same missile just with a different name.

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I thought the difference was the MKs were all aspect?

R-60s are the rear aspect version, the R-60M and MK are all aspect, with the MK being the export designation for the missile.

21bis (of which the Lazur one is a variant) is great in sim for sure

Yes is good

As long as you avoid the stat padders in the F-4S

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I think I only ever uptiered the 21bis to 11.7
On 12.0 days i prefer to hunt F-4S in the mirage F1

depends its a very high skill ceiling plane if your below average no if your above yes if your a average pilot id say no not for that price its not a no brain missile spam plane like mirage F1C-200 or F4S

sorry, you were grinding the tech tree with the squadron hunter?

you’re gonna really like the pace of grinding with a premium then.

(squadron/non premium event vehicles have the same rp penalties for researching outside +/- 1 rank as normal tech tree vehicles)