While the R-73s would be amazing to have on the Mig 29, the problem is that it’s BR would just move to 12.7br. The Belgium F-16A in game has Aim 9Ms at 12.3br, though its already known its undertiered. Like at this point, having a Mig 29 with R-73s and R-27R/T at 12.7br would be pointless as the Su-27 exists at 12.7br as well and is pretty much better than the Mig 29 in that regard.
This was my theory as well at first, but now it doesn’t look like that is happening considering the Aim 120s currently are the best radar missiles in game, meanwhile Mig 29 and Su-27 FM have not be buffed or reworked.
At this point the Mig 29 has three options: Removal of R27ER of current Mig 29 and drop to 11.7br (Unbalanced), Remove R27ER and give R-73s and uptiering it to 12.7br (Unbalanced and pointless), or keep what we currently have (Still unbalanced but the less worst option). All options are quite literally unbalanced as either it has the Mig 29 too oppressive over 10.7-11.3br aircraft, or has it quite frankly underpowered at 12.7br. I literally hate to even say this but keeping the R27ER is whats currently keeping the Mig 29 in a somewhat balanced state.
The only real way to balance the Mig 29 would be to remove the R27ER and to buff its FM, but that will be very unlikely to happen.
“They do not need to upgrade their existing 9-12s & 9-13 that are just sitting there”
(not familiiar with forum UI so yeah)
MiG-29SMT 9.19 exists, some are based off old 9.12s and 13s while others are built from the ground up if I remember correctly, so clearly they did need to upgrade their old MiG-29s at some point (2014-2016+)
(There’s also export SMTs like Yemeni 9.18s but those aren’t RuAF stuff so yeah)
I agree but I think they adjust it based on the statistics of the vehicles (which is kinda controversial), maybe the smt has less players than the sm and these few players that play with the smt are less skilled compared to the sm ones.
What bothers me more is the fact that the f16As will get 13.0 together with the french f16A, which is the only f16A that gets aim9m ingame, there’s 3 possibilities:
1- french f16A will lose the aim9m;
2- other f16As will get the aim9m;
3- gaijin has a different mindset that is beyond our comprehension.
Since the BR has been decompressed to some extent, Hungarian MiG-29 9.12B can get R-73 and R-27ET to make it equivalent to MiG-29G.
For 9.13? I don’t know because russia will lose equivalent of MiG-29 9.12A. Probably, If we gets original 9.12 which doesn’t have R-73s, 9.13 can gets R-73 and R-27ET.
Problem is BR difference between the MiG-29A and MiG-29G will be only 0.3BR after “decompression”, and the MiG-29G has the same BR as the F-15A/F-15J, M4K, and JAS39A(wtf gaijin)
MiG-29A will have same BR with F-16A Block 10 so, it is really questionable that MiG-29 with R-73+HMD would be good counterpart of Block 10s.
It should be 0.3 higher than block 10. Thing is MiG-29G sit in a strange spot right now, since it got to 12.7 because of its loadout, despite being one of the worst of its BR
