I guess gaijin could add 2 another MiG-29 12.7 BR MiG-29S (9-13S) & MiG-29SM (9-13SM) before MiG-29SMT (9-19R), MiG-29KR (9-41) & MiG-29M2 (9-67)
MiG-29SMT 9-19 increase to 13.0 BR in Q4 2024 or Q3 2025 if gaijin consider R-73M & R-74M replacement R-73 and R-27ER & R-27ET replace by R-77-1
Still having issue with the SMT. Regardless of extra weight any fuel min. It still has much worst Alpha than it should you cannot notch missiles for anything and takes a turn radius as the ASA.
Ngl its still kinda sad that it has export radar instead its real one
Delete the nerf from 29smt and
Wdym by the “real one”?
Mig 29 9.19r used N041R radar that was more similar to mig 29 kr radar but right now it uses export variant of n010m
'The MiG-29SMT (9.19R) has a far more capable fire control system than previous MiG-29s — it features the slotted-aerial N041R radar, similar to that of the carrierbased MiG-29KR and the MiG-35S. It is a further development of the Zhuk-ME fitted to export aircraft, with new transmitters, enhanced software and additional modes. ’
İf only Russians gave 9.15M engines to SMT it would be a great plane actually.
I was wondering if anyone has noticed an issue like this?
When the MiG-29s accelerates to about M0.9, it needs to sink the nose about 5 degrees to perform level flight. At this time, the fighter jet was flying at a negative angle of attack.
I don’t know if this is an issue based on broken FM or if it’s intentional. Because it is theoretically impossible for an aircraft with a negative angle of attack to generate positive lift, it will sink rather than fly levelly. I know that because of its unique neutral stability aerodynamics, MiG-29s need to be trimmed forward to offset the strong nose-up moment at transonic speeds, but it will not put the aircraft into a negative angle of attack state.
Its cause its a lifting body. This should be a thing especially at high supersonic speeds. Its not even unique to the mig.
From an aerodynamic point of view, any lifting body should only provide upward lift when the AOA is positive. The phenomenon of requiring downward trim to maintain level flight at transonic and supersonic speeds is common in fighters that tend to have neutral stability aerodynamics, including MiG-25s. Some of these fighters do not have a central lift body design.
AoA is probably still positive even if nose attitude is negative… Though this phenomenon is a known issue with MiG-29 where it requires some amount of negative pitch trim to maintain level flight at higher speeds.
That’s not true. A curved airfoil can produce lift even at negative AoAs (obviously small negative AoAs). Also in the case of the MiG-29 the thrust vector creates an angle of about 5 degrees with the plane of the aircraft. That means there’s a sin(5) * Thrust contribution to vertical force which diminishes the lift requirement.
my f16 pull 15g and more higher aoa with full a2a loadout and 12 with 2x 2000lb bomb 6x agm65 and 4x aim9. yea extremetly overbuffed… smt pull max 12g when the plane is empty and the smt get massive aoa and flight performance nerf.
Iduno call Mikoyan and demand your money back for taking an old well-balanced platform designed for point defense and high performance and shoving all the equipment in it like an inflight refueling probe, enlarged surfaces etc. and fuel tanks and pumps just to call it “modern.”
instead of actually developing a new fighters like the Americans do. Mikoyan always took the cheapest route and ruin legacy of a perfect design. Mikoyan was always preoccupied with quantity over quality, unlike Sukhoi who emphasized quality tremendously.
I know most people in this thread only care about the Soviet/Russian MiGs, but if you are a German MiG enjoyer then I created a report for the weird lumpy/pixilated textures it has.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/NvtyvMhqdR8F
I should stop answering to you… it was already explained countless times in this thread that the only reason the SMT exists is that Russia did not have the money to buy the MiG-29M 9-15, but in your head you have decided: Mikoyan Gurevich = quantity ignoring quality
Nope, the smt have fly by wire, better rwr, ground radar function, and better engines (in the late variants compensate the extra tons). When the smt come the live servers maybe still usefull in sim mode, but later the gaijin give some massive nerf to smt. too much skill issue usamain crying on the forum and ingame chat. and the f16 always just buffed…
Please stop replying be my guest.
Yes, they were broke boys and still do not have money these days either. Does not mean it has to be one source or the other.
However, it is also a design philosophy flaw to anyone who has studied on the development of both Mikoyan and Sukhoi.
That it is Mikoyan who takes a good design and comes out with 20 variants until the original design is no longer recognizable or operates the same. All in the cheapest effort to stay relevant and “modern” without spending the resource to develop a platform designed specifically for the new requirement at hand.
Only Mikoyan will kick a dead horse over and over and try to make a fighter such as the Mig29 which was always originally a short-range point defense fighter, shove fuel in it and all the bells and whistles and expect it to magically become a strategic fighter with the same capability of the Su27.
The SMT is a failure of development doctrine that was always present and evident in other designs when the Soviet Union was most prosperous.
Mikoyan knows the Mig29 is originally a short-range, point defense Frontal Aviation asset and was perfect in that role. Mikoyan knows that the platform has very poor future sustainability and offers little to zero room for upgradeability in avionic suites and even the radar is very limited in how upgradeable it is. Its nose was designed too small to offer continual upgrades and any radar performance capability that can be squeezed out of it is irrelevant to the competition it would even face anyway. So obviously a new platform is required to meet the demands of Mikoyan that the Mig29 was not ever designed to carry out, right?
Nope! They still continue well into the 21st century looking for ways to cram capability into the same dead platform and shove fuel in every compartment disrupting and enlarging its mass when everyone knows that no matter what Mikoyan does to the Mig29 at the end of the day because it will never have the same radar capability and upgradeability as well as sheer number of missiles a Flanker can bring to an engagement over any kind of possible upgraded Mig29.
