Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum - History, Design, Performance & Dissection (Part 1)

Both TVC and AESA were not presesnt in domestic version and offered at customer’s demand, so who knows.
But on the other hand, 35 is capable of carrying R-74M and is supposedly being worked on having R-77M integrated, so I wouldn’t be very surprised if gaijin was aiming at releasing it either right before, or alongside 5th gens with R-77M as the top of MiG tree.

sorry i didnt look well

9-12

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9-15

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Am I blind, where the dorsal flares at

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9-15 is gonna be peak. Cause this mig actually gets the engine upgrades and other stuff. Not mistaken it has 8 hardpoints if not it was the M2 variant of the 9-15

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Yup, cannot wait.
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that is a beautiful sight

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they just copied from 29smt
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yes it has 8 r77

one sad thing is that n010 instead of n010m doesnt have narrow scan zone
but hope they will just copy the n010m

Can’t wait for it to be an event vehicle :p

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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/7WS0Ns2g6OZN
no sustained turn rate buff
they used graph with sau limits for tune the sustained turn lmao
probably if someone find same graph for su27 it can nerf it Cy back to 2024 🤣

btw i just leave it there

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very realism very graphs
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So, gaijin used the lazy way to go about countermeasures. Well, could be worse.

It’s a very high probability. This thing looks nowhere close to be finished in usual 2 weeks of dev.


Elefant in the room, MiG-29 has new IRST scan
9.12 and 9.13 also have significantly faster scan rate than 29SMT or Flankers

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at least for flanker, their scan rate is correct at 5 seconds to complete a full scan.
Honestly though, I’m more interested in the IRST ranges being ungimped than scan speed

In our dreams i guess. Tho it would help USSR 4th gens quite a lot with situational awareness, considering bad update rates of their radars

It’s the placeholder model

Well, 9.15 never had dorsal flares technically. They were installed on 9.41 and onwards.
But at least we have correct LERX model, correct tail piece and correct horisontal stabilisers with hooks. Leading edge is also looks correct, going almost to the very edge.

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Does it have a tail number

In-game? Zero clue, i was looking at the model Fulcrum-E posted here.

Is the IRST ACQ with manual radar control finally fixed?

I… dunno? I use IRST very rarely. What was the problem?