Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum - History, Design, Performance & Dissection

OH MY SHE’S GORGEOUS- I want my Fulcrum-F BADLY. What missiles is that in the picture? 27ER and…?

yeah r27er, im not sure if it can only carry the normal r77 or both r77 and r77-1, r73s too and also with better engines and better radar

just found this:


and this:
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it might be able to use kh38 lol, ground rb players would also hate this thing lmao


best lookin mig imo

It should be able to, unless the weapon racks aren’t strong enough on the MiG-35, I think they have the same launch systems

Edit: took forever to send, sent before you edited it

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dw i was trying to fix the post too lol

Yeah no I’m at school so my wifi is HORRIFIC. But yeah that would be a cool edition, I’m a Brit main and I would love it if Britain ever made something like that, but it didn’t sadly. And no I don’t want the Indian MiG-29 in the tree

british tt can recieve the indian mig29k in the future, it is also a heavly upgraded mig29 with better engines, radar, etc
here:
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It can but I really don’t want it to, I am against copy pasta vehicles, which is why I decided to grind USSR; I wanted one of my favourite jets, the MiG-29. I’m not a jet fan though so it took ages to be bothered starting ti

i agree with that, my problem would be if the britsh tt got the 29k at the same time as russia/ussr tt, maybe 2 patches later or 3 it would be ok imo (same thing with the su30mki)

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I would be semi-okay with it maybe as an event vehicle but nothing else. Even then I’d like it to be a Russian event vehicle… I’m a Kiwi and I hate how the commonwealth countries are spread across multiple trees but I really just want vehicles into their native countries except for when it’s not present, then it needs to go to where they have the closest relation/best spot. Ie ANZAC vehicles to the UK. Nonetheless I love the MiG-29 so any MiG-29 I would love to have

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Wait until you see the su30

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the later unfortunately, against any competent f16A, f14, m2k, m4k the mig29’s will be struggling even with a good pilot. Against people who dont know what they are doing then yeah it can smack things around

please for the love of god no more indian aircraft for british, its basically as bad as giving a full subtree of soviet equipment to US TT as they are one of the only pure blue side nations, the cross pollination is bad enough with the minor nations having everything. Not quite the same for rb but for sim its seriously annoying

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For a small breakdown, its pure performance in dogfights is comparable to the F16D.
Its not horrible, but its really just not good at all, probably lower mid spectrum when it comes to FM at top tier.

Its weapon kit is laughable in the current top tier with only 6x AAMs, only 2 of which are BVRAAMs.
(taking the MiG-29G here as it got the best FM with a still decent loadout)

Same with its Avionics kit - probably the worst at 13.0 and above, with both the worst radar and RWR (not counting the Viggen here, lol)

Its TWR is really good tho and as long as you stay above 900km/h you really can do some shit against slower targets.
The top speed is pretty incredible for how bad its FM is, the 2nd best top speed at top tier on the deck with roughly mach 1.3 (only beaten by the Eurofighter)
Unfortunatly its fuel economy is so bad that it wont get to those high speeds very often, if at all.

An overhaul from the Devs for this aircraft would imo be really benefitial, especially with newer editions like the MiG-29M, MiG-29K or MiG-29K for the Techtree and the MiG-29OVT as a possible Premium/Event aircraft in the future.

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And it’s not meant to be like that correct?

Some 4th gen aircraft (f16a, f15a) overperform so that makes the 29 feel underpowered, there’s also the instructor which forces you to pull an unnecessary amount of aoa making the plane lose too much energy, a mechanic that allows you to adjust the amount of aoa in the instructor would fix that issue but we don’t have that, but you can use trim which helps a lot on 2c duels.

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ahhh right thank you. Do you think thats why I have a skill issue in the Gripen or is that just me XD

You mean you perform bad in the gripen or against the gripen? Both are understandable depending on the situation xD

I perform bad in the Gripen. I HATE R-Darters SO much

Yeah R darters aren’t as good as other fox3s, it’s really kinda mid.

It is, but I’m a British main so it’s what I have to deal with. Anyway, back to the Fulcrum! Is there any way the 9-12 could get R-73s? Sorry I don’t know much about it.