Lots of issues with it obviously but I actually found it to be fun. I have an ace in it. If it can work, then surely the Su-9 with 4 x R-55 missiles and potentially a gunpod can work as well.
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2 x R-55. Su-9 used them in tandem with RS-2US.
How is R-55? Any data about it?
From the Coviet Aviation air to air missiles book.
Can be used on intercept courses (all-aspect seeker?) and hit targets with up to 3Gs of maneuverablity. Also said that it is significantly more maneuverable than R-3S so i guess something around 12-15Gs?
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As far as I know, it could use them in the other two racks, though the standard mission profile included the RS-2US missiles.
I’ll answer this in a spoiler since it’s not related to the topic. If you want to continue discussing the Su-9 I did also make a dedicated thread long ago:
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It’s an IR missile based on the RS-2US but with redesigned wings and rudders with better wingspans and more powerful steering drives. The seeker was the nitrogen-cooled TGS-59 and the PRD-45 motor burned from 4.5 to 7 seconds.
The MiG-21PFM “3532” testbed as well as a MiG-21bis “24 Red” tested it and they found out that it was significantly better than the R-3S (almost twice as effective) and had better range. Since it was based on the RS-2US, it likely retained the 18G structural overload if not improved on it and the recommended target maneuvering limit was 3G.
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All Russian sources say that Su-9 FCS was designed to use only 2+2 configuration or 4 RS-2US.
Because it was a dedicated Soviet bomber interceptor, not because there was a technical limitation.
Fine, find what other launcher R-55 used. You do know that Su-9 has 2 different pair of launchers? RS-2US uses APU-19 for 2 innner pylons and APU-20 for outer ones
Of course I do, I researched it a lot back in the day. The R-55 could be loaded on both.
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Here are two issues about the MiG-35 thrust problems. Mainly work as complements and reminders of the emergency thrust. Hope they would help.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/KP6lOlTmvNv0
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/BaeZrXKKrx1r
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that is a lie it dosent say Mig-35S ingame
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the Suggestion mods are Larping playing War Thunder.
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Annoying how swapping between IRST and radar with the Zhuk-M resets its elevation to pointing up at the sky instead of level with the plane/horizon
Works fine on the regular Zhuk
Kinda hoping MiG-31 doesn’t come at all tbh. MiG-25 is already annoying enough since it can stay invulnerable to everyone by being so high and fast, and in a downtier its completely impossible to kill unless they screw up or you get them while landing/taking off.
MiG-31 will be at the br where it can be reached by weaponry available to people. Lowest possible br for MiG-31B is around 12.7 and anything higher than 11.7 will be able to catch it (especially if MiG-31 will be left without any countermeasures). And anything above 13.0 has Fox-3s with enough range to slap it out of the air.
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you know what would be cool. using the mod and put aim120 on it for polish nato modernized mig29 larp
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