MiG-29 Sniper let's make an interesting premium

Gaijin doesn’t want little Timmies in Fox-3 bracket. Which is, on one hand understandable, on the other - decompress top tier goddamit!

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Thats a good suggestion for not letting it become just another p2w copy paste vehicle

The current weaponry on the Sniper is the final set.

The radar has also been corrected to N019E as per this report: Community Bug Reporting System - the fix will appear in a future version.

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well it just lost the 2032, so not really P2W now LOL

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Still has the RWR, which is a massive improvement on SPO-15

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lmao. but why?

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just read the report Smin linked

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i am not asking about technicality, information about SnipeR never recieving planned radar upgrade can be found even on wikipedia, i am asking why it was accepted? We already have cases of vehicles using planned\never used equipment, so why remove one of 2 things that made it unique?

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I’m guessing int this case it’s because

  1. A new radar was out of the scope of the original Sniper upgrade.
  2. Sniper already had a radar in the N019 so there was no need to give it a radar it never used, unlike the Mirage 4K which never had a radar fitted.

Remove SnipeR name then. Now it’s just a regular Romanian 29

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That would be incorect. There were other elements of the Sniper upgrade and it has those

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well it is a digital RWR, massive QoL Buff. Not as massive as a better radar though

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Only 1: the RWR
Remove that and we could be less “mad”
The Yak 141 wasn’t fitted with nothing, yet it has all the programmed equipment. I see 2 standards here…

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new cockpit too, which is nice for sim

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There is no reason to remove something that the Sniper had. This serves no purpose.

The aircraft has a upgraded cockpits and other elements too.

yes but it lacks the integration of western weapons systems and since that is what the program is known for, it feels kind of deceptive to call it that. You can agree that there is an argument to be made there. Why not just add one as a premium call it Early (as in early into the refit) and in tech tree Production (as in after full refit)

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The best thing. But logic is hard to use for them…

So we’re getting a MiG-29 with R-60MKs at the same BR as the F/A-18C Early? The same aircraft which gets “long” range AIM-9Ls?

The least Gaijin could do is introduce the Python 3 to the vehicle, it doesn’t have IRCCM but does have adequate enough range, the R-60s are 10.3 missiles…

I’ve now lost all interest in the vehicle and I’d assume so has others.

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Genuine question if you don’t mind me asking; because the radar was a proposal, shouldn’t the weapons be removed too then? It was never seen with rails, let alone weapons, and the only thing I could find about it potentially having weapons is it being hinted towards being able to carry western weapons due to having the same weapon capability found on the LanceR, so it technically can have western weapons. Additionally, I do not know if this is just an error, but the cockpit even has an R-73 cooling switch. If it got them at least and went to 13.0 (like the 29G) then I think that would be alright due to having a better RWR and not having an advantage

Does it only have the same exact weapons found on 12.7 Fulcrums because it originally was a 9.12, despite it having the rails removed? And I don’t wanna turn this into a “whataboutism” question, but aren’t there systems with proposed/planned systems in game already, similar to the further upgrades of the Sniper?

Sorry for the questions, I just like the aircraft. It’s just sad seeing it look like this

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Per Aerostar, the company in charge of the Sniper program, the upgrade package did not consist of western weaponry, only avionics.

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