Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum - History, Design, Performance & Dissection (Part 2)

sadly he’s a TSS guy. To him anything that isn’t META is bad.

oof, a hard case. Well, you can tell him that MiG-29SM ain’t gonna be meta. Not unless gaijin gonna do some severe decompression. As long as there is a Flanker at the same br with same armament is present - Fulcrum will be overshadowed

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the 29SM is already in the game

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I thought the SM also used L-150?

No, only SMT, only 9.19 version and only some of the airframes

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Ah, I figured as much. I went looking for 9.18 info and saw it didn’t have L-150 either.

I guess he just wants that weird Serbian MiG-29.

that weird serbian Mig-29 still has the N019

nevermind, this one actually has L-150, you can see them in same places as with 9.19 SMT

But it does have cool shit like 13SM IRST, L-150 and guided stuff. N019 also seems to be at least upgraded with A2G modes as well

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I know.

For some reason the TSS guy thinks N019M1 would be a great upgrade over the base N019.

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Well, it’s a bit of a longshot speculation, but from radiotechnics on Russian aircraft forums N019 scan speed is limited by software, not hardware. Dish itself has a potential of having double the speed due to the Cassergain double mirror design.
Tho i don’t think it would be any faster than Zhuk-M, unless it has some hydraulics limitations due to slotted planar array design quirks

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Unfortunately without proof of such a software upgrade I doubt Gaijin will buff N019

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I thnik Ralin at least made a bug report about N001 being able to follow targets in TWS mode in vertical axis as well, maybe same is fair for N019

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Can you send a link?

I’m not sure it is in public bug reports, he mentioned it on Ru forums. I’ll try to find it

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Ty

29KR can actually take off without a ramp from a carrier on 25min 35min 40min full fuel load (with full R-77/73 loadout). I wonder what’s the most amount of fuel you can take and still take off
And by starting from the rear of the carrier you can even take off with full fuel and all fuel tanks strapped to the poor liitle Fulcrum

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RD-33MKs putting in overtime to take off.

They are doing quite a solid work tbh. Now i want to spade Su-33 and see how bad it is with that thing. With stock loadout of 2 73s and 2ERs it can take off with 40 mins of fuel without ramp, and needs to start from the rear of a carrier if you run full fuel

pray.

that’s all I’m gonna say.