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

It feels like the aircraft didn’t get a new FM per say, just a new set of engine and different weight.

It should be trillions time better than 9.12 at low speed and it’s just not…

I mean it has FBW, different control surfaces, completely reworked aerodynamics…

It feels lazy from gaijin, just like if F/A-18E was the same as the legacy hornet but with different engine and weight…

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Dog i literally said that this is the same fuel LOAD, not fuel WEIGHT on this chart.


J-15T with 48 countermeasures gonna be a nice training before 9.41 with glorious 36 will hit the game. Although at least it will probably be at 14.0 with R-77-1 and not higher.

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That’s pretty close results, innit? Yeah, in sustained it looses, but sustained in War Thunder is pretty much irrelevant, who first gonna pull the nose and yeet a missile - wins in ARB. And sim is an irrelevant game mode with dead playerbase so who cares

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no and 10 times no

it has MORE Cy and LOWER Cx, go read some books if it normal for you
its also have more POWERFUL ENGINES

if you look at my graph it losses at ALL types of turning
-100 it has lower then 9-12 witch have NO instablity and NO vortex formation due sharp influx
+100 it must be like THIS f15c vs f15e

and finaly (from a source where the data may not be very accurate) it has same instant turn rate as 9-12
both full loaded
so its much better

lol, sustain turn = Cy/Cx
it determines all the charts of FM

im care

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Your whining becomes bothersome at this point. Go make reports if you really care so much. It’s not me who is responsible for the FM behavior so spare me of this. You always claim “sources” yet you always fail to bring anything substantial like in case with your hilarious claim about AL-31 being based on RD-33. i’m gonna stop replying to your posts, it’s meaningless.

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thanks for the favor

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MiG-35 also runs 36 countermeasures, it’s so joever.

Im mostly play duels these days so it does matter in fact quite a lot

then what are you doing in a Fulcrum thread? It was pretty obvious that it won’t be anywhere close to meta, it belongs to the aircrafts with flight models that current engine just can’t calculate properly so they are literal UFOs

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The 2 seat fulcrum looks a bit goofy.

Sounds like F-16A UFO

With amount of AOA F-16 can pull in-game without going into unrecoverable flatspin it is indeed an UFO

It’s very annoying

Also for any given AOA it pulls like .6G too may

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Mikoyan and his obsession with putting second cockpit in front of the original one. At least later versions look pretty good with second cockpit being added behind.

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This looks much better

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one thing that irks me is the fact that modern Fulcrums use the same cockpit layout for both 1-seater and 2-seater for sake of price and simplification of production, 1-seater just has additional fuel tank in that place, as well as some avionics blocks. imo 9.15 is the peak visuals of a 1-seater MiG-29

If the Sniper wasn’t so expensive I’d buy it just to have a MiG-29 but ohh well.

I prefer nato instruments so the sniper would be ideal for me personally.

I would have already bought the sniper if it had R-73s on it tbh