Because countries received upgrades from the Russians and those are hard to keep track… In sound research you must expect discrepancies. You need to understand this is how open source intelligence works. You need to learn how to sift through it.
Not cry about a missing letter. If the serial number is correct. You follow the trail.
Even direct sources from Russian military will always have intentional element of maskirovka placed through out. I suppose to understand these things requires someone privy doctrines in intelligence gathering & counter intelligence.
Looking up the serial number(MSN) will only show the Airliners.Net pictures. There’s no guarantee that these serial numbers are official. These are written by the people who took these pictures.
Kid you can look up serial numbers & hex codes. They are given to every aircraft upon serial production & upon registry of any nation.
Your mad because you are not educated enough to understand these databases collect identification en masse on aircraft of countless commercial, civil & military. Of course discrepancies will be found.
Don’t forget to brush your teeth too & wash your hands.
It’s for you since unofficial stuff is valid to you.
MSN numbers can be trustworthy if it’s a civilian aircraft. In case of military aircraft these MSNs are often wrong specially if it’s a russian or soviet aircraft.
As long as you can’t show a official document where it says its a 9-12S your claims are not valid.
When did I claim its 9-13S? I never claimed it. That picture was for you.
The pictures of Ukrainian MiGs you shared didn’t even have their full msn written on them. So there’s no guarantee that the guy entered the correct MSN.
So since it can’t fire R-27ER it also can’t fire R-27R, got it… Except it can… So it can!
Your entire argument is that the missiles new booster makes it impossible to launch from the airframes with the N019 radar… Just not sound logic or reason here.
My entire argument has been about boosters? No relevancy whatsoever kiddo.
Only N019 radars that are proven to guide R-27ER & R-77s in any Mig-29 is the upgraded N019M Topaz or greater
The N019M Topaz can guide older missiles like the R-27R too.
Just because something is backwards compatible does not mean something is forward compatible.
imagine living in a world not able to understand this.