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

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Any noticeable changes to 9.15? Outside of hover technology?

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Fantastic, one of the additions of all time
60 flares are still present to this day… i’m afraid that they will just roll with it, despite accepted bug report about 9.15 being planned with 120

If only the 2019 (?) edition was public…

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well, they fixed drag shute… almost. container now opens, but shute still spawns a bit lower than it should

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MiG-29 very beautiful(totally did not skill issue writing “beautiful” 7 times in total, 5 times first time, twice the second time)

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SMT is love.
SMT is life.

I will give my soul for the sky whale, inshallah.



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Speaking of SMT, some of the parts of the airframe were replaced with composites.

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With how heavy it is I never would’ve guessed…

Does anyone have the loadout of the MiG-29SMT? I’d assume it has R-77-1, no?

You mean the ones in Russian service? Russia purchased base R-77 in miniscule numbers, so there is like 90% probability that they use R-77-1


grey parts on the tail is carbon fiber, slats are also carbon fiber probably. Rudders (and probably stabilisers but i can’t find a photo with readable letters on them) have a cellular structure

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That’s what I’ve heard, so I assumed it would.

I’ve been playing the SMT a bit more recently. And the difference between the R-77 and R-77-1 is… apparent

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It is, but at close range R-77 quite often shows better results just because it has time to pull harder due to less agressive acceleration.

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Finding unpainted SMTs seems… difficult.

I did find these two though.

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I’ve noticed that too, but I usually take shots at like 12km with the 77-1s, having to dial it back to like 6-8 for the 77s is throwing me off a bit lmao

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Funnily enough Gaijin actually put “Warning! Carbon Fiber!” writing on the tail… but still slapped a ton of rivets there

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Giving it R-77-1 probably result in 14.0 br like F-16I. Which is most certainly sub optimal for SMT in current state

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Gaijin moment.

I’m honestly surprised with how good the default SMT camo looks.

Especially compared to the Flankers.-

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it is actually pretty good, but i still use this one from WT Live

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