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

Mother Russia has already thought about that Comrade, dont worry.

Not only your Fulcrum became lighter it also has increased awareness now.

Enjoy the hunt comrade.

IRST should also provide laser designator for Guided munitions.

What do you mean by empty weight? I think this needs to be explained once and for all.

Has anyone seen a diagram showing any blocks of anything in this location? I looked at about four of them and couldn’t find any.

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Nothing new in this dev update?

According to Gordon, there are transponder and jammer antennas


and SPO-15 antennas slightly behind.
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you can see them on a 3D model of 9.12 and 9.13
honestly i didn’t expet those tiny knobs on a square plate to be SPO-15 antennas, they look so smol

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9.19 doesn’t have them because L-150
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9.15 as well

I know what you’re talking about is in the radio-transparent caps. But the avionics unit is located in a completely different place.
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Yes, it is located behind them. Where wiring for said antennas would be. And where SPO-15 antennas are located.

9.31 is pretty agile. Also it seems that 9.41 has even bigger flaps than 9.31

It ain’t. Thought it was at first too due to image search, but the different numbers and rail for the CM-400 is present. Also other trusted sources reported this with the image too. It’s a common angle to photograph from.

God I hate how images have to be doubted 90% of the time with stuff like this

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I mean, it was a thing even before the widespread usage of AI.

Thing is that those can be mostly seen to be fake either simply visually or via noise analysis

AI does not really leave such traces depending on what is edited

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Fair enough. But double checking every photo is a good practice anyways.

Anyone has good data on the weight of 9.41 btw?


it uses quite a lot of composites, so it should be quite light, no?

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Nothing on empty weight afaik

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Is Mig29M compatible with the ‘flare’ upgrade of Mig29SMT ? 60cm kinda low otherwise

It should get 120, as it was originally planned for 9.15 (but never installed on the prototypes of obvious reason). The ones on SMT were developed much much later, and no 9.15 airframes were modified to fit them

Well i hope so… but model has only 30 on each ‘vertical stabilizer’ and i doubt there is a room for a ‘double’ 30 stacks

And M2 has gotten rid of those… where are the holes…

There are no holes
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but there are covers, you can see 2 vertical rectangles on the spine where the BVP-60-26 would be placed on the serial production airframe.
M2 was developed from a completely different airframe, with heavily redesigned spine