the L in front of some names stands for “Lovec” which is (literally) translated to hunter or rather as English knows it: fighter. It’s similar with the J-# aircraft where the J stands for “Jurišnik” translating to attacker. No idea what the G stands for tho
G stands for Galeb
The 3 classes of aircraft. Fighter, attacker and seagull
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yeah. why not. The B in B-29 stands for Boeing-29
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I know I was just making a silly joke
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There is literally a MiG-23ML in the Belgrade Aviation Museum and its missing from this tree.
Correction:
Source 1: “In 1989 IQAF sent 10 MiG-23ML to Yugoslavia for overhaul and intense maintenance. During the Gulf War II, these airframes were kept stored in Serbia until -and according to some sources -they were serviced on 2002.”
Source 2: “10 MiG-23ML (export subvariant B) with registrations 23252, 23269, 23292, 23267, 23260, 23279, 23288, 23278, 23290 and 23272 came to Zmaj for mid-level overhaul. Out of these aircraft only 23269 has been overhauld. That MiG-23 flew to Željava AFB and than to Batajnica AFB by pilot Omer Avdaković. Aircraft was handed over to Moma Stanojlović Air Force Technical MRO Institute, while other 23s were put in storage at 160th Logistic Support Base at Pančevo, city near Belgrade. For some time, 23269 formed part of the open exibition of the YAF Museum at Nikola Tesla Int’l. Now it is in Moma Stanojlović Depot.”
It is likely that the aircraft did not arrive with their original munitions and, if needed, could only be armed with R-60s or older missile systems available locally, unless they were modified to carry MiG-29 compatible ordnance which was most likely never carried out.
Sources:
https://www.paluba.info/smf/index.php?action=printpage%3Btopic%3D25662.0&utm_source
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If they only tested it, I don’t think it should be included. Before you say it, I don’t think the Swedish T-80U and Mi-28 should be in the game
At least 1 was ready to fly and fight until the country collapsed. Armament for it was interchangeable with the existing MiG-21s.
Now these could apparently be Iraqi MiG-21SMTs. Yugoslavia did not operate MiG-21SMTs, so it could be another interesting addition. According to the source they also featured a distinct camouflage pattern (as seen on the photographs).
“Regarding 21s, only 8 Iraqi MiG-21SMT remained in Yugoslavia. As I said, despite SMT designation they are actually bis variant with addition of air condition system. During NATO aggression against the FRY radars were stripped from IQAF MiGs and used for imitation of AD radars. Also airframes were put to visible locations as baits imitating FRYAF Fishbeds but they were recognized because of their camouflage so none has been destroyed. They are now in Moma Stanojlović Depot but in poor state. Iraqi officials were briefly interested in them but lost interest after inspection of the state of aircraft and after they were informed on possibilities and cost to back them in flyable condition.”
“I know some Iraqi AF, Libyan AF and Sudan AF aircraft did underwent maintenance at Zmaj. I have seen pictures of Libyan AF MiG-21bis 209, Sudanese AF MiG-21US 300 and Iraq AF MiG-23ML 23269.”
“In July 1991 there were 56 aircraft of different types in the “ZMAJ” institute: 13 aircraft in working order were transferred in July 1991, while 43 non-operational aircraft were evacuated along with all spare parts, i.e. 1,329 components, in the first half of December 1991.”
Sources:
https://www.paluba.info/smf/index.php?action=printpage%3Btopic%3D25662.0&utm_source
https://yumodelclub.tripod.com/yugoslav_air_force/iraqi_migs_in_yugoslavia.htm
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+1. The aviation tech tree appears fairly sizable, which I genuinely believe would be a solid addition to the game.
I’ve always admired Yugoslav aircraft like the Ikarus IK-2, Rogožarski IK-3, and Ikarus S-49, and I’d like to see them in the game one day.
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on a similar note, i believe yugoslavia once had iraqi floggers in the 90s that they used for testing
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I mentioned that above.
+1 Looks great.
Also what plane would be the best to be a squadron vehicle?
i think the Iraqi MiG-21SMTs would be nice to be the squadron vehicle.
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Or the Iraqi MiG-23ML
i feel like for the Iraqi MiG-23ML it would be better to be in the tech tree to research and a smother transition to the MiG-29.
Bear in mind that it’ll only be able to be equipped with the missiles that the Yugos had, and the Yugos did not use MiG-23s. So it might be limited to R-60s only. Besides, I believe only a single version was in flight worthy condition.
So if it was a squadron vehicle would it be br 11.3 or 11.0 do to it only having R-60s, also did it only have R-60s or R-60M?
It depends if the Yugos had R-60Ms.
YuAF had R-60Ms, their MiG-29s also came in with R-73s.