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hm, not really. There's nothing to indicate that the training of egyptian crews after 1967 was on any worse a level then that of the IDF or other airforces. (other then propaganda). Tom Cooper and pilots during that period stress the intense trainings they went through and they did manage to achieve good results against the IDF (again, if you're looking past "we shot a hundred arab fighters and any losses we incurred were "technical""). And while sure, they suffered slightly higher losses then they inflicted, this can be attributed almost entirely to the discrpency in tech. even by 1973, most of the Egyptian MiG-21s were either PFs with only 2 R-3S as armament (fuel was often highly valued so taking the gun pod wasn't a common occurence), or older F-13s, which had a gun, but were still limited in terms of performance and endurance (they were preferred by Egyptian aces though), and the MFs didn't make up a sizeable portion of the EAF. On the otherhand the IDF had state of the art missiles like the AIM-9D on very powerful platforms such as the F-4 and the Mirage.

I highly recommend Tom Cooper's books for accurate information on the MiG-21s in Egyptian service, even just for training. in addition there are several pilot interviews online however they are sadly only in arabic, but hold a lot of information (they're about 2hrs each!). As for your question, three of the liveries I have made for the MiG-21 were used on the MiG-21MF, which as others have stated, was the closest thing to the MiG-21BIS in Egyptian service. The liveries with red markings are post-1973 and from the 80s, the Early nile valley scheme was a picture taken during the war of attrition iirc? But the Nile valley scheme in general remained in use well into the 80s. The fourth livery was based on a MiG-21PFS, which is a modified variant of a MiG-21PF, and was significantly different in both looks and capabilities then the MiG-21MF and MiG-21BIS, as it did not even feature an internal gun and relied on just two R-3S for armament, but was used quite extensively by Egyptian pilots even until 1973 and further.

I should note that this is the only photo that showed the aircraft in such a configuration, regardless I decided it would be fun to include but I can absolutely understand why someone would want a more standard configuration. if so please let me know and I will share a description.lua to make both tanks gray

Hello, I am the creator of the livery, the tank is intentionally mismatched as an easter egg to match one of the reference photos (see attached image) I used in the creation of this livery, it was decided to keep it that way but I understand if you want the "normal" tank, and if so lmk and I will send you a "fixed" description.lua

yes, though I have been incredibly busy with multiple projects these days and so I am not sure when I will be able to continue work on it

nice work on the roughmets (side note: if you aren't already, you can put the green channel of the default rm over yours as a hard light layer and get a pretty good "template")

Now I don't do US liveries much, so I'd follow Lance's advice in that regard, but also a little tip I'd give is to use the reverse image search function (set it to exact image so it doesn't just spit out images of fighter jets). Using that method allows you to find sites that hosted the image you looked with, and they will most likely have other images as well. For example for the Komatsu air meet livery I only had one image of one side, and when looking for the other I couldn't find it anywhere, not even on Japanese sites like flyteam.jp, but I reverse searched the one image I had and it led me to, of all things a Hungarian blog that had a few other images of the air frame and allowed me to finish my work.

Hello, I have published three JASDF liveries on the userfiles since release: F-4EJ Kai Early Scheme 07-8428 306th Sqdn : F-4EJ Kai 302nd #77-8402 "Phantom Burai" with Corrosion Control F-4EJ Komatsu Air Meet 306th Splinter #47-8340

A decal tool like on the F-15E is planned, it'll allow for multiple liveries to have different bort numbers for minimal file space (<1mb) provided they use the same "base".

I think repairing will reinstall it

I would very much like this change to be undone, shouldn't be difficult, and while it does have good intentions, it breaks many of the 1000+ viper skins already made and uploaded on the userfiles!

excellent write up!

No news to report yet, sorry

This update is great! Thank you Onretech for listening to my feedback

Excellent Pictures!

Nice work

Again, I am offering my Egyptian F-16, if ED is interested I will add the dynamic bort numbers to it.

Hello all, I apologize for the silence on this project so far, but I would like to assure everyone that work is continuing, albeit I cannot predict a finish line.

Incredibly well said.

Hello all, Since ED has updated the textures for the flanker, I do not recommend using my RMs with them since they sacrificed quite a bit of visual fidelity in order to give the depth effect present in normals which is no longer necessary, however I do still recommend you keep them for the Su-25 since ED has not updated it's textures

While I appreciate Leehy reaching out to Roughmaster and I am sure that Rough will absolutely more then deliver on the european liveries, I am still a bit disappointed with the choice for the rest of the liveries. I have redone my Egyptian F-16 4 times since I started learning livery making three years ago, and so I hope you can understand it was a bit shorthanded to then pick someone else to do this livery for inclusion ingame.

you are probably right, I think it's silver paint. but RN the focus isn't on the livery so much as it is on the textures in general.

did you have HNS turned on?

Hopefully soon!

thank you