Since the wings are high aspect ratio, when they are forward… the vortex causes turbulent airflow when airflow separation is not a real problem. This causes higher drag when wings are forward. When wings are full back you might see less airflow separation due to the vortices but again - it still adds drag.
The delta between them may be off, but the MLD is trading raw aerodynamic performance for stability at higher angles of attack.
I just tried this in a test flight, but its not true?
The cockpit sight is only standard and cannon on ground target, the radar itself doesnt provide gun lead.
(Which isnt realistic, I know)
It’s not that it doesn’t work, they added it, they just didn’t add the HUD mode for the cannon on air targets, so they literally just slapped it on and called it a day.
There is HUD images of the lead indicator I’m pretty sure.
The ML+ variants generally had a pretty good K/D of like 1.5-2:1 depending on which side you believe and omitting the monkey models as they say of course the loss rate is one of the better ones as far as MiGs go.
No source you find on it will ever be good enough to win an argument against someone who is claiming the contrary.
It seems like these links don’t work for me, every document I try to click redirects me to a non existent WayBackMachine page.
Maybe you could send the pages with pics?