It was supposed to get it from the beginning, however back when they added the mig29 the r73 was kinda screwed so they decided to maintain the r60s and give it r27er instead to “balance” the game.
I think the 9.12 and 9.13 will never recieve the r73s ingame again, i waited for a long time for them to add a new variant for Russia cuz the SMT is too fat but they didn’t, so i decided to grind the mig29g lol.
I think it would be okay to give the 9-12 the R-73 and remove R-27ER, so maybe a maximum loadout of 2x R-27R/T and 4x R-73. We already have Magic 2s at 12.0 so it wouldn’t hurt.
That’s definitely the right thing to do, however gaijin thinks otherwise…
I mean the other option would be add it R-73s as is, and put it at 13.0, and decompress top tier BUT WE KNOW THERE’S NO WAY THATS HAPPENING. Only likely thing to happen will be Fulcrum 9-12 gets R-73s, goes up to 13.0, and gets sucked into 14.0 black hole.
As far as, after MiG-29SMT (9-19) and BR 14.3 minimum. but wait 2 or 3 years and after gaijin add MiG-29KR
Domestic RuAF MiG-35S with Zhuk-ME PESA radar
Indian Navy MiG-29K guided Air-to-Ground munitions better MiG-29KR, post upgrade Rampage stand-off Air-to-Surface Missile and indian BVRAAM
the MiG-29G irl went toe to toe with the F16C
the 29G has 10% less thrust than the A irl, which would mean that the MiG-29A should beat the F16C consistently.
Its engines ingame produce not enough thrust, at only 6800kgf per engine instead of the 7500-8000kgf mentioned in 3 different charts in the Handbook.
That’s a massive increase, though I suppose barely anyone actually plays the Fulcrum in war thunder - I barely see them
2-3 years is completly unlikely, by then it would already be obsolete.
The MiG-29 FM is horrible, even with it was fixed it wouldnt be one of the best ingame, more in the mid range where F16C and F15C sit right now.
The MiG-35 doesnt get anything new, its avionics are pretty identical to what we already got in WT today.
Perfekt update to add tghe MiG-29K wouldve been this one together with the Hornet, as both are naval aircraft.
I mean the F-16 can say the same thing about the weapons kit, the important thing is what those weapons are, coupled with FM. 4/6 pylons only being able to take short range missiles is fine, but those missiles being R-60Ms is completely unacceptable
It really says something about how awful the FM is that I genuinely feel more capable uptiering 23MLD to 12.7/13.0 sim purely because of how it performs in a dogfight
MiG-35 does get all the improvements from the 29M aerodynamically speaking
best mig 29 would be OVT no?
OVT is an aerobatic demonstrator, idk if they’ll ever add it in the game, but it would be basically mig29m with thrust vectoring
it never had weapons systems/weapons?
Afaik no, they only use it in airshows. Theoretically it can equip the same payload as the mig29m but it would be essentially a fictional aircraft, as the russians never actually put missiles on it
Mig-29 ovt it’s MiG-29M 9-15 156 with tvc. 29
M 156 have all systems
This is false.
Both Mig29G and F-16 performed similiar in 1C while F16 excelled in 2C in real trainings.
Mig29’s biggest strength was the R73+HMD combo at that time and even then once F-16 pilots figured it out it was game over for Mig-29.
Stop spreading false information.
Did anybody get to test the MiG-29 with the “cobra button” in the dev server?
Yeah, but at most you can get a r73 off before you die or crash. It’s a bit funny because i feel like It’s comparable to the eurofighter no aoa mode, only less thrust. You don’t have anywhere near the authority of a su30, not even j11.
From what I’ve heard from other people it is roughly equivalent to what the F-16A can pull (without the AOA limit removed). If they cave in and add it for the F-16 (which was only used when entering a spin) we are so cooked.
I don’t think people realize that the aoa limiter should only be used to either get the gun on or a hob shot, after the first turn if your enemy isn’t dead or out of energy too (because you will be) you just got yourself killed.