I’m not following you then… the fact that the MiG29 is unstable at high alpha is a problem in game, but in real life it should be better than that
Bro you are bugging! No way I can run down any SMT. I will post some videos of each clean and combat loads.
I have full authority when dealing with the SMT in the F16C. That is a little out of pocket assessment. I have to ask, do you have the 16C?
Nope, I only have the SMT… but I have never seen an F16C go over 1500kph, the SMT can easily go past that
yeah bro it insanely quick. I wish we can let people test fly our aircraft that would be sick.
Perhaps the Barak I will test both.
can the F16C actually do 1500kph in a straight line?
MiG-29 should have better control at high alpha, thus improved stall recovery.
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I do not do kph. But I guarantee you it is faster than the SMT in every stretch and aspect that matters.
I will post vids in a bit for everyone.
then that means that, if the MiG29 was modelled correctly, it shouldn’t that far from the f18 and the su27 in high alpha manoeuvres
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I don’t know where you got this conclusion. The MiG-29 should be better than it is now, but not on par with F/A-18 or Su-27.
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Everything I had read so far said it was relatively close to the hornet in terms of nose authority, but I never looked deeply into it
Maybe in a straight vertical, but the hornet has much higher stability that allows him to yaw / roll + pitch upwards of 60+ degrees remaining in full control the entire time… whereas the MiG-29’s “Cobra” would not be useful for a gun solution on a target incorporating roll + pitch, the F/A-18 could keep nose on target vector even outside of just lateral or vertical plane.
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Well the cobra is mostly useful to shoot an R73 than using the gun… in a gunfight actually sustained turn rate (either flat turning or doing loops) is usually more important than high AoA manoeuvres…
That’s also why I was (am) insisting so much also on the rate of the 29, the F-16 and other aircraft in general.
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In modern gen4.5+ fights nose pointing is required in the fight as it devolves into a tight min radius scissors to stay outside the weapons employment zone of HOBS missiles (min engagement range). AIM-9X and R-73 for example.
So, in these situations, the F/A-18 can actually win, whereas an F-16 often will lose the encounter against something like Su-27 WVR…
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Yeah with HOBS missiles AoA manoeuvres are extremely important, perhaps the only thing that matter (no wonder one of the improvements they went for in the mig29M is extra Aoa).
That’s also why most of Europe went with canard-delta. They optimized BVR capability thereafter with Meteor and such. Russia still has a focus on WVR capabilities and so did Europe. US has gone away from this mostly, but the Raptor and F-35 are both VERY capable still.
Russia doesn’t actually focus on WVR, from the little I know supermaneuvrability is mostly an “extra tool”. Since real life fights are not 1v1, even if the engagement does not end in BVR you usually won’t see aircraft circling each other slow, but quickly pointing the nose it’s still useful, which is something the raptor and the F-35 are also very good at.
Still all nations have their focus on BVR.
Guys I really urge you all to watch this. This guy is clearly an expert on history and capability. He goes in depth about the the differences between the Mig29 and Su27. He also goes into history regarding the blitz fighter concept (F16), The orgin of the F15, Mig25 and the doctrinal approach of the Soviets and US.
As I know from all my research in the history of cold war aviation he has not misspoken. However I did take a little offense to what he said about the Mig23. However he does not mention the MLD.
He says some awesome things about the Mig29 over the Su27 vice versa. Let me know you guys thoughts.
He specifically touches on SMT as well. This thing should perform much better in terms of thrust to weight.
Sorry to go off topic, but…
We really need features like this in RB
If possible, a feature that would allow AOA as well as G restrictions at the same time, with one button to remove the restrictions, would make air RB air combat great
I am of the opinion that using keybinds should bypass the mouse-control instructor
The NO19 radar was definitely a Mig23 radar as I have stated. The West already knew everything they needed to know about the Mig23 radar. Not only that, Adolf Tolkachev told the US exactly everything needed to be known about the Mig29s radar. It was not impressive in the slightest.
Aside from knowing everything about the Mig29s (Mig23 radar), Tolkachev gave the CIA complete detailed information about projects such as the R-23,R-24, R-33, R-27 R-60 S-300, MiG-31and Su-27