Because it was designed to be a knife fighting dogfighter with IR missiles and never lose energy. That was the Mafia’s vision “The Blitz fighter”. That is how it performed. That is why the F16 performs so much better armed with just IR missiles and drastically worse with sparrows. GJ knows what they are doing.
The FM is just spiced up to a video game standard. Like everything else.
so bad that the Germans kicked the ass of the F-16 and F-18
and many more countries continue to exploit them.There is no money in Russia to pull 2 types of fighters.Although the MiG-35 is able to compete with everyone
Do not forget the Mirage 2000s, delta fighters destroying this supposed blitz knife fighter in close combat.
So why are they not using them today? They had many opportunities to buy and upgrade more. NOPE!
He answered you before you even finished typing this. Amazing.
Yeah Mirage is awesome jet Dassault is amazing. But thats neither here nor there.
What’s a Mig35? Yeah everyone is tripping and falling over themselves to buy that… poor combat radius (major reson everyone hates the Mig29) when you can just buy a Flanker… Every country that had mig29s either ended up buying Flankers or wish they bought Flankers.
delta has a big loss of speed.Their element is the supersonic region
Even so, at subsonic speeds bested the F-16s regularly in combat.
Seems your statements are based on dcs 1v1 fox-2 dogfights videos
let me remind you that the mig-35 has a range like the F-15.Yes, the Flank is 2 times more expensive.And he has only F-15 competitors in his class.While Mig has a lot of competitors
Who? No I like aviation history not video game videos or whatever.
The SU27 has a better range than the F15C.
So… yeah Flanker it is.
I know
Are you guys turning against the Flanker now? Whats happening? I gtg though BBCR catch you guys later.
Who said that we are against the Flanker?
No I meant the Germans. We all know the Russians are on a budget… The Germans are capable of upgrading Mig29s. I mean they brought them up to NATO standard, didn’t they? It’s just an obsolete aircraft. There is no future in them.
Additionally, Russia has no intention of further developing this “Mig35” or any aircraft based on the Mig29 platform. No one wants to buy them, and it makes zero sense when there is a superior platform that has much future sustainability, longer range and one of the most aerodynamically perfect designs known to man.
The Flanker will be flying just as long as F15EX. But for China.
Development of MiG-35 is already finished… Russia already has serial production MiG-35S in service
Yes, they made how many and stopped. They are not producing anymore. It’s like the 1983 DeLorean. Cool car. But no one wanted it.
Because the EFT was already around the corner - a jet that’s significantly better for their doctrine, and in much greater number. Spending money on modernising ~22 or so MiG-29A’s they had would’ve proved to be a waste of time, especially since those aircraft belonged to JG 71 if I remember correctly - the wing that was also the first to receive the Eurofighter.
Why upgrade an aircraft that is much worse as is and offers no benefits what’so’ever, everything that MiG-29 could do, the EFT did better, and was capable of stuff that their MiG-29s weren’t without performing deep modernisations.
They extensively tested them, and judged that keeping and modernising them to modern standards wasn’t beneficial - taking into the account the costs it would inccur, and the post-CW situation in Germany with gigantic budget slashes on pretty much everything (they were even debating if acquring the Eurofighter was worth it, and came pretty close to just leaving the program in the late 1990s).