Are they large caliber at least?
large calibre
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Agreed we at least got the MiG-29M/MiG-33 9-15 suggestion passed to the devs
Although I would rather have newer fulcrums being added instead like the MiG-29M from 2005 or the MiG-35 due to the better electronics and probably can get better missiles
does MiG-29M (9-15) get a targeting pod
Don’t want to off-topic too much, but we had Rafale that used to have only 32 CMs, although it’s a Large CM.
Until they nerf it to be mixed with Small Calibre.
If only MiG-29 retain its old Large Calibre CMs. Those Small Flares struggle to cover that big heat signature lol.
difference was that rafale had options of being specced with either 32 large cms or those large cms are replaced with more smaller ones. 2005 mig 29m/mig35 doesn’t have that option. also, rafale still had like 110 chaff ontop of that, for the 2005 mig 29m/35, theyre just stuck with 32 cms period
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No.
It has in built laser targeting.
does the irst get a camera?
Not so sure but it’s possible.
Yet it cannot do basic aerobatic maneuvers as prescribed in the manuals without stalling and falling out of the air.
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yada yada
Aircraft cant be buffed cause we would have to actually redo the flight model cause we messed up so badly in the past.
Thats the only info im getting out of this
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I am 99% shure the MiG-35 would be able to switch the UV-26 pods (32x 60mm) with the smaller UV-5 Pods (64x 26mm)
I dont think its actually done in the russian airforce (cause the MiG35 mostly relies on DIRCM and Jammers, not Flares/Chaff) but it seems unlikely to me that the MiG-29SMT - an older airframe - would be able to use both UV-5 and UV-26 interchangebly while the MiG-35 only uses UV26
Ive read on a few articles that it trades those countermeasures for a 360° DIRCM system using LS3705EO-type turrets to disable IR seekers (even IIR seekers)
One of them seems to be this little ball behind the canopy (it is only present on a few MiG35s wich lets me assume its either the DIRCM or the MAWS)
If someone could confirm that, that would be neat
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After a long (not really) comparison, we’ve come to the conclusion that the MiG-29 is one of the worst jet fighters ever created. I don’t understand why it became so popular in mainstream culture—Soviet pseudo-aesthetics? (Though the Su-27 is far more beautiful.) Or maybe just because it was made behind the “Iron Curtain”? It’s beyond me.
As someone from the CIS, I could’ve been lenient toward it, but no—this plane has awful avionics, and the very idea of a frontline fighter by the late '70s was already outdated and downright embarrassing. It’s not heavy like the Su-27, nor light like the JAS 39 it has no real place on the modern battlefield.
I hope this Soviet-era junk dies out as an aircraft, just like the useless cultural phenomenon it is.
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Looks cool so I like
that is not true the germans (after the reunification) have been speaking highly of it
with it being able to hold its own in a dogfight against almost everything at the time
Would probably call the mig 29 one of the biggest what if? Planes, could have been so much but killed off by fall of the USSR and economic struggle of the Russian Federation for so many years. They had relocate the limited funding to other more important projects.
I’d imagine if the USSR never collapsed the MiG-29 would have taken a similar role of the F-16 serves here in the west
Good amount of countries did say it was a worthy opponent. The IAF (Israeli Air Force, not Indian) said it on their own site about the time when they leased some and were impressed with it’s performance
To say it’s one of the worst jet fighters is just misinformation and straight up wrong
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i think part of the reason why they didnt do anything with it is, that they had the Su-27 which was able to do everything the Mig-29 was able to do but a bit better
it had DL, a bigger combat radius and was able to carry more weapons
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