Correcting the MiG-29KR RD-33MK thrust from 18,832 kgf to 18,000 kgf would result in a small but noticeable performance reduction. The aircraft would lose SEP, acceleration, and sustained turn performance, while its instantaneous turn performance would remain almost unchanged since the mass and aerodynamics are the same.
Even with this correction, the MiG-29KR would perform better than the MiG-29M in terms of thrust, energy retention, and sustained performance.
That said, if the current 18,832 kgf value is meant to represent emergency thrust setting for the RD-33MK, then it would make sense to ask why similar emergency thrust settings are not also modeled for the RD-33K and standard RD-33 engines, if those engines had comparable documented emergency modes.
I heard about R-33K that were specifically installed on 9.31 airframes to feature emergency thrust, but i haven’t heard anything about RD-33 and 33K on 9.15 airframes, you have docs for reference?
at least on a runway. They also stole the cap from drag shute container. And broke MiG-29M as well, container doesn’t open anymore, shute just noclips trough the cap and deploys
And i think they broke 29M landing gear, it just breaks after you go past 180 kph
After looking into it, I found references for the MiG-29K 9.31 having a emergency thrust mode on its naval RD-33K engines, temporarily increasing thrust from 8,800 kgf to 9,400 kgf.
However, the source I found also says that this was unlike the RD-33K used on the MiG-29M , which suggests that the emergency mode was specific to the carrier based 9.31 installation rather than the standard MiG-29M 9.15 RD-33K setup.
For the MiG-29M 9.15, I found some secondary sources listing a “special mode” of 9,400 kgf , but other sources list the RD-33K at 8,800 kgf only, and the clearest 9.31 source directly separates the naval emergency mode from the MiG-29M engine. So I would not claim the 9.15 definitely had emergency thrust unless a stronger manual or primary document is found.
Also, the published RD-33K afterburner thrust is 8,800 kgf per engine, which gives 17,600 kgf total for two engines. In game, the MiG-29M 9.15 shows 15,974 kgf of Max Static Thrust, which is about 90.8% of the published engine rating.
So the in game value effectively corresponds to around 9.2% channel loss. However, without a specific MiG-29M 9.15 intake/channel loss document, I cannot confirm whether that exact loss value is historically accurate or just how the flight model is configured.
And there is more valid documentation supporting this
