90% of the missiles you face are the AIM-9G at 9.7, so you have no idea what you’re on about lol.
Oh no! AIM-9G!
Forces a side aspect or head-on
Anyway…
Mig-21S R13 is borderline OP at 9.7.
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i play a lot of 9.3 US (F-106) so i see aim9g pretty often and they are not that big of a problem. Other dangerous missiles around this BR like aim9N on the Saab F-35 and the Flz Lwf 63/80 air-to-air missile on the German Hunter F.58 are definitely scary but you are fine if you keep your speed up. Staying fast is staying alive for the F-106 and I can outrun those missiles.
Mig-21S has way better acceleration than F-106 +great top speed so you should have no problem out running the missile. If you bleed all your speed then yes, you are going to die to missiles.
That’s not always possible, but you are right that they can be played around.
The F-106 is considerably faster, and IMO has better flight performance.
The real solution to all of this is decompression, because a flareless Mig-21 with R-3S/Rs should not be 0.7 lower than the J35XS, Mig-21SMT, or any 10.7.
actually yea after I test flew the two aircraft, both mig-21S and f-106 acceleration are on par with each other. I was wrong about mig having better acceleration. F-106 actually beat it cuz it keeps going while the mig21s start to slow down once it reach mach 1 on the deck while F-106 kept going slowly up until mach 1.2 and snap its wing
From what I found, MiG-21S R13-300’s acceleration is not that much better than the majority of aircraft it’ll face. Nowhere near enough to make it a survivable and reliable plane. In my matches, there’s barely any players that will just run into the R3-Rs, and the radar locks onto allied planes much easier than it does to enemies, so you can’t do anything but gunrun people, which most of the time does nothing but get you killed to the average missile since maintaining 1250kmh+ is difficult for the plane.
The only thing the MiG-21S R13-300 is good against is other MiG 21s lol.
Edit: I’m talking with 20m of fuel load and 3 out of the 4 available radar guided missiles btw.
im not sure what you mean but I recommend you run 3 IR and 1 Radar missile cuz radar missile are only effective on that first high altitude head-on and catching AFK climber
Quite tasty missiles (If you understand how and WHEN to throw 'em). It’s picking up some nice altitude in a short time. Main gun is awesome, yep, not much ammo, but less ammo = more skill.
A bit bleedy in dogfights, but you do boom-zooms instead.
Good, yet hard to understand plane.
P.S. If you get outturned in a dogfight with a starfighter, go to props, please.
I usually take 3 radar, 1 IR. Get up to altitude, get 3 ez kills, then turn around, send an IR to someones ass and pick other slow targets down below
im surprised u can get that many kill with radar missile, normally i only face 1-2 high alt climber
casual 10.3 uptiers do their things
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I run 3 radar 1 rocket pod for emergency flares, and the rocket pod only weighs 3.7kg whilst the missiles weigh 75kg. 20m fuel load.
Basically, I’m in the low-middle weight range for this plane.
The radar missiles are like how 30% of my enemies die, the rest to gunruns, since not many planes have good chaffe for them and many people don’t realise that they’re radar guided.
yes then do that, each plane got their strength and weakness so you should use it accordingly
Yea the mig21 can pull a lot of AoA which is good when you are trying to get your gun on target but it bleed a lot of speed, I dont have a mig21 so i cant tell u how to play it :/
But generally people use it to dogfight cuz the high AoA is amazing
oh i almost forgot to mention the thing about mig21, the radar missile start pulling almost immediately right off the rail and the “meta” way to play it in a head-on is to launch the radar missile when u are like 1.5km - 1km away from ur target, they cant dodge and its a free kill if they are coming straight for u. Got killed a few times by that
By gunrun I mean a boom-zoom like the other guy called it. Come in at like 1200kmh, do a burst or launch a missile, and instantly leave.
Very unreliable way of playing cause you’re more likely to end up dead than getting a hit on someone, and you can do this once every 1-2 minutes which isn’t great.
It’s horrible at dogfighting. It’s just great at head-ons which only garbage players do once a game, and for some reason I’m barely seeing any.
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Are you per chance talking about R-3R?
idk the name for the radar missile on the mig21 but i think so
True, but there goes the bleeding. It’s alr if yall having a lot of momentum, but once it goes away, you’re done for. Boom-zooms, gunruns and such speedy stuff is a much better area for 21 I’d say.
It’s how I’ve been playing it and it’s not very reliable but it’s the most reliable. Just not enough compared to the general killing performance of other planes.
Or better yet, play simulator. It’s even better, 10.0 = not much missile stuff going on, everybody’s blind, lotta A-10s. Get 2 R-3R, 2 R-3S and just go around the map, lay low, get behind and proceed to your hunt. More XP, less stress