Mig-29 has had a “good enough” RWR since forever. It tells general direction and launch, which is really all that’s needed now that the biggest threats are 14.0 and once decompression occurs even more threats leave it alone.
That and digital RWRs only say MSL and don’t identify the missile so their only real improvement is specific direction.
And instead of directly notching, I primarily just kinetically defeat AMRAHMs which proves more successful and allows me to stay aggressive.
But yeah, as I was saying drop the R-27R move it to 12.3 where its flight performance matters a bit more.
Decompression occurs this year and its only real threats are Harriers and the rare dogfighting F-14B.
This is irrelevant, what is important to know the positive and negative points of a vehicle are is the amount of time you spend playing with a particular vehicle.
the f16A is stupidly strong in terms of flight performance, no mig29 can beat that without the r73, and even with the r73s if the other player has 2 iq he can just keep preflaring the r73 until he gets the 6 of the mig29, (which It’s extremely easy with the current FM of the F16A compared to that of the MIG29)
if you want decompression, thats fine, the game for suer needs that, but ppl can also ask for the 29s to get their r73s, one does not invalidate the other.
the f16s/f15s and others can go as fast as the smt, the smt doesnt go 500km/h faster than these other jets and it takes longer to get speed since it is fat, again the only good thing is the radar, you can easly pre-falre the r73s, the fm doesnt allow you to dogfight and win against most of the other jets, the r77 isnt great, is mid at best.
oh, look at this, the FLIGHT MANUAL of the mig29 9.12 (germany one, which is OLDER than the 9.13 -ussr-) has the r73s, shocking right?
source -page 245-:
@unluckyg
Air RB isn’t about dogfights, it’s about top speed and energy retention in furball management.
Mig-29s with R-73s go to 13.3 post-decompression regardless of your opinion.
Mig-29SMT goes mach 1.3 on the deck, faster than F-16 and F-15E at the least, it just accelerates slower than the F-15E which it doesn’t even face.
The flight manual shows R-60Ms, thanks for proving the 9.12 and 9.13 are historically accurate currently.
The R-73s were made to be used with the MiG-29, not the other way around. R-60Ms are an historically accurate loadout despite the R-27ERs not being so.
Doesn’t matter, because you shouldn’t be using R-27Rs outside the range of your HMD. The HMD locking is great.
You’re better equipped to take them on then the F-16As and similar planes at the same BR. Atleast you have IOG/Datalink SARHs and are extremely light, small, fast, and have HMD.
I didnt get a pin btw
but hey, like I said, R27R is good, but anything else is going down the heel. your likely to face planes that have longer shooting range than your HMD, dogfight is fun but getting shoot down miles away is bad.
After fired all of your R27R, it is diffcult to shoot anything down with R60M, the full capacity of HMD isnt released is what I meant by that
re27ers were used in the SMT, but not in the 9.12/9.13, again, i dont mind if gaijin removes the r27ers and gives us the r73+r27r/t for the 9.12 and 9.13
i dont think the hmd was made to be used with r60ms, cause the perfect combination is HOBS+HMD so i think it is okay to assume that the hmd was made to combine with the r73.
Not that I am Gaijin, I can confidently assume that the loadouts are final. MiG-23s could also fire R-73s, Frogfoots could fire R-77s as well as the 21-Bison.
These are balancing decisions (arguably outdated but still), not historical accuracy decisions.
i mean that at the 500m above the ground, there is no reason for the smt to go high, it will be food for any other fox3, cause you know…the aim120 is better to do longe range shots than the r77 will ever be.
are you trying to say that the smt is somehow better or equal to the f16c/f15c? there is a reason why that thing sits at 13.3 and not at 13.7 you know? imo the smt shouldnt even be in wt, we should have the mig29M not that fat boat.
@unluckyg
I’m well aware that player performance impacts Gaijin BR decisions.
In air RB when comparing Mig-29SMT to F-16C, they are analogues of each other; air RB isn’t 1v1 dogfight tournaments.
Mig-29SMT has been one of the easiest stock grinds I’ve had at top BR because of its under-BR’d nature.
I do agree that we should have Mig-29M for 14.0 as the F-15C/E analogue.
Not sure why you’re spamming agreement with me on speed.
The best way to balance the game is literally to provide the weapons that the aircraft actually carried, as long as they’re already in the game, this doesn’t apply only to the mig, it also applies to the f14, f4s, fgr1/2, Yak141, and so on…
