True.
Either a enhanced Mig29 (SMT is just “modernized”) or the Mig-21-93 which I heard is an amazing fighter that can go toe to toe with 4th gens. The model is already really good in WT.
I still think we need small light fighter to compliment the Su27. It cannot do it alone as it has a weaker thrust to weight than the 29. the Flanker and is a gigantic target and a great radar reflector. Sparrows are not going to miss those things.
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Ya know I don’t know about you all, but id not be adverse to have a update centered around the F-111 & SU-24. Both are highly requested and would give the devs more time to work on top tier air superiority fighters.
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I think the Soviet mains are more losing their minds over the fact that the Mig -29 is currently a bus despite being well known for it’s overall stellar performance irl. It really is worth noting that the plane went from hero too Zero flight performance wise overnight thanks too the most recent update, and probably too combat the fact that if the Mig -29 could still maintain good noise authority and rate capabilities then it would absolutely dominate the close range fights simply thanks too the R-73 and HMD.
Also can we stop framing thaings in the context of “Soviet mains are crying/American mains are whining” it gets really old and just perpetuates this toxic style of convo with a lot of bad faith arguments.
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The SMT is a bus because its heavier. The 9-12A flies like a dream. The only thing the Mig29 is missing is the alpha and nose authority at slow speed. But many players do not understand that allowing more alpha is not going to allow them to rate with the F16.
Some players are asking GJ to limit the alpha even more (lol) so they can pull aft on the stick as hard as possible without any consequence and maintain the optimal angle of attack for maximum rate. That is not what the Mig29 was designed for. They do not want a Mig29. They want a F-16.
As for your Soviet mains are crying comment. They absolutely are, and many declared they won’t even play the jet until GJ nerfs the F16 or makes the Mig29 as good at rate fighting.
The SMT is my most played aircraft this patch and I already stated its missing alpha. They need to take the limits off. But doing so would actually make the aircraft take skill to play and historical. However most soviet mains do not want the high alpha fighter the Mig29 was designed to be they want the instructor to hold their hand in a dogfight. They want an F16 dressed as a mig29 with the same best missiles in game too.
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So anywayw are we expecting a Monday blog?
Yes we are
at first i thought yes, but then i remembered that mondays often are left alone
There is a little time before the update, i suspect it will drop today
thats the funny thing, people often seem to forget that the SMTs main purpose is CAS not fighter activity and that as a result of this it just got quite a bit heaver to support the needed systems
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The Mig-29 should still be a very close contender with the F-16 in terms of flight performance, however after this update, even the normal Mig-29’s have taken a significant prefromance hit, and seem too be preforming far below what would be expected of them IRL. The SMT is heavier, and we expect it too take a prefromance hit for this sure, but being on par or even worse than an F-4E should probably be a tale tale sign that something is wrong here, as at the end if the day it is still a Mig 29, and Should still have very capable flight preferences.
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it is early morning in europe, it will need a few hours until we see sth
I fly it like the tomcat and only get into knife fights if I am forced. The jet has the best most unique IR missiles. R27 and the R72. Not only that they get an almost infinite range HMS IR sight (can detect further than the actual IRST).
To top it off we get a better radar and the best hypersonic capable SARH in game.
The jet is more than capable of clearing out whole teams alone and still dogfight with 2x giant 317kg missiles hanging from each wing.
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I think the term your looking for is a multi role fighter with extra fuel capacity. It’s a simple modernization to keep the Mig-29 more up too specs in the same manner the F-16C is an F-16 with more teeth but also a bit heavier. There still absolutely meant too be fighters
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i wouldnt say close contender to F-16, russian aviation is worse then western ones purely as a result of the opposite doctrines, western doctrine is way more focused on aviation while russians gave up against nato air superiority and as a result focused more on SPAAS, that is the whole reason as well why other nations dont have a pantsir equivalent because they focused on using other planes to intercept russians fighter, which just doesnt translate well into the game because of the spawn costs.
As a matter of fact and result, russian aircraft are just worse and dont need to compete with western ones
It is close, it has a smaller turn radius than the F16, but rate fighting is not the strong suit. I think its missing thrust though.
It’s the high alpha, cash energy in for immediate nose authority to get nose on first.
It is Soviet doctrine. “He who gets nose on first.” They even developed the HMS and high off boresight capability in the R73 to assist further in this doctrine.
They also were designed to have the thrust to recover quickly from these tactics (I do not think energy recovery is as good as it should be either)
The Mig29 initially went into service with a 80 nautical mile combat radius. That is tiny. However, they are Frontal Aviation assets and not designed to be out there long. They are designed to fly up, quickly get nose on, kill whoever and come back down and do it again. They are purely point defense fighters.
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Your argument is focusing way too much on doctrine over the actual hard facts of the aircraft in question. You can criticize Russian/Soviet doctrine all you want, it doesn’t change the fact that the Mig-29 is well known as a fantastic plane with great flight performance, and is easily an F-16’s pier. I understand that a lot of people love the F-16, and for good reason its an amazing plane, but dismissing the Mig-29 because “Russian planes bad” isn’t an argument. By all accounts and data the Mig-29 should be able too keep up with the F-16 yet somehow now in war thunder we have a much larger prefromance gap between the two planes where phantoms can beat Fulcrums, and I can’t help but be suspicious when seem too think this is a totally responsible outcome.
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i am not saying that russian aircraft are plain bad, just saying f 16 is better, i dont even have the f16 and am not realy intrested in it either, i fly the mig 29 in the game without problems. The standard Mig 29 can keep up with the F 16s and the Mig 29 SMT has its reasons why it flys worse and those are supposed as they are. Mig 29 SMT flying worse is just a possible results of what happens if you change a an fighter to an Multirole fighter which it originaly wanst supposed to be
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that’s fair and all, but i’m pretty sure a f16 is better in the one circle anyway. I really have to work hard in my m2k to beat a f16A in a one circle (which shouldn’t really be the case).
it can pull some bs maneuver at the beginning of the fight, get on your 6 and then nothing you can do. I’ve seen up to 14G being pulled, no other aircraft can pull that amount.
I’m pretty sure the f16 is quite overperforming atm, probably due to the AoA limitation they removed on this aircraft only (for some reason)
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