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As far as I can tell, it doesn’t seem to be a PL-12:
1- For example, I think I see a clear difference in wing construction (Unless some other variant of PL-12 has a similar wing construction):
2- Also the windows for the TDD / proximity fuze seem to be long and longitudinal on the PL-12, while they are short and lateral on the North Korean missile.
So I think it’s likely that the external design was “inspired” by PL-12 (Like Fakour-90’s external design was by AIM-54).
Or perhaps the Chinese gave them some help with the design and some components; Though I find it unlikely as the Chinese don’t like the North Koreans very much …
My overall guess?
The external design was inspired by PL-12, but internally it probably / possibly uses some R-77 components …
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None of their stuff is brand name, it’s what was at home in the fridge. Still just a PL-12 equivalent.
AFAIK R-27ER was given to PVO as a priority, which MiG-29 is not generally used in and Su-27 is.
Good to know, I didn’t knew why, I just knew that it was mostly/ only used on the Su27
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It made no sense to equip the MiG-29 with a weapon that outranged the radar.
In retrospect, it may have been useful to have a weapon with better time to target, but that is something they probably hadn’t considered necessary.
No MiG-29 FM fixes?
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There was never any expectations for fixes, so no
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Not really that simple, in a similar way to the 9M33M3 outranging the Osa-AKM guidance system.
Range is just energy, but that energy can be used in other ways. Against manoeuvring targets especially.
That’s why they made the R-27R accelerate slower and maneuver harder than the R-24R.
Well the amount of energy the R-27R gets out of it is comparable to the R-24R, its just spread over a longer burn time.
Yet it can maneuver better at high altitude than the R-24R, enabling it to actually hit the targets.
The R-24R’s are no slouch at hitting their targets.
They are considerably underperforming as well, just fyi
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Make a bug report
Why, I showed them the F-5’s are considerably overperforming and they do nothing for “balance” lol, no need to bother with such reports anymore.
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Where is this from?
It’s quite interesting that Gaijin refuses to buff the MiG-23 to historical levels even though it would potentially increase their profits from the premium MiG-23ML.
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Do you have all of the pages? I only have the ones that were on the listing.