The Bison wouldn’t be a 13.0 aircraft in my opinion and most likely 12.7 and simply due to the lack of missiles It would carry.
And you need to remember that most 12.7 and 13.0 aircraft get sucked down to 12.0 pretty frequently and the current major issue you’re concerned about is decompression not the vehicle receiving R-77s itself.
I’ve mentioned this many times and will mention it again, the Bison equipped with R-77s would have a similar performance to the IRIAF F-14A.
Both would have ARH but the Fakour-90s would be overall far superior and the host aircraft in general would have a larger kill potential due to significantly more missiles on board like the R-27R1s and AIM-9Ps.
This is published by the Bharat Rakshak and contains the MiG21Bison, It’s birth and the induction process, please read through it to find the use of r77s in the bison.
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above is a link to a New Channel Post about the bison shooting down of the F16 fighter jet, It includes a few points of which is the Bison having the R77, I know news outlets are not a good source of information but it’s information nonetheless
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well known bison has the r-77, its not added as a balancing feature. r-77 are one of the worse and perform similar to r27r1 range wise, and very underperforming missiles rn. if bison gets r77 it can go to :-
13.0 :- too weak, has the worst radar with one of the worst FM for its BR. missiles are fox 3 but not really good. kfir with derbys (similar to r77 performance) atleast has a better fm, wayy better radar and lots more.
12.7 :- too strong, earliest fox 3 carrier other than f14a with aim54.
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What About J8F comparision with the Bison having R77s
It wouldn’t be too strong. R-77s are one of the worst ARH missile in the game. For balance gaijin could limit it to be able to carry only 2 R-77s.
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