You should do one with the Tomcat.
maybe do one with a Flanker or Fulcrum as well.
Funnily enough, there is no turboprop cathegory in the game. Wyvern and Skyshark just classified as strike aircraft. Turboprop engine is still technically a jet engine, just doesn’t use jet stream for direct propulsion, instead using it to rotate propellers.
1 Like
I’m aware, but it seems more prop than jet.
Depends on the point of fiev i guess. Internal design is closer to the jet engines, propulsion method is closer to props.
1 Like
Shouldn’t be, in fact it got integrated MAW system which should make slightly heavier actually.
That’s what I thought. Maybe we should make a bug report?
As far as I know only differences between MKM vs SM is the downgraded BARS, integrated MAW system and modified FCS that allows to use NATO munitions, other than those changes they should be practically same plane.
Unless Russians used more composite on fusalege it shouldnt be lighter, btw what’s the exact weight differences between both planes?
Not sure, I’ll check after this match.
1 Like
they dont accept any empty weight reports currently
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/PRz9Zdx9WxYy?comment=GVAg3WljGnMEYydn17MW9j06
That’s… weird.
Upgraded on SM*
MKM is an earlier design
1 Like
My only guess might be that Russian avionics for SM is heavier than Western counterparts that were installed on MKM and MKI, but this is one hell of a guess
3 Likes
And people say that Flankers are huge
1 Like
Does anyone else have a guess as to why the MKM is lighter than the SM?
Does anyone else have a guess as to why the MKM is lighter than the SM?
I found a magazine comparing the MKM to the MKI.
https://web.archive.org/web/20141209140732/http://en.take-off.ru/pdf_to/to26.pdf
I think this is the same thing, just in Russian, so it may have more info.
http://www.take-off.ru/pdf/06_2007.pdf