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R-27ER on 9.12 airframe, just to ensure we do not make incorrect assumptions on missions, weight carrying capacities etc. As I said before: the missiles get primed through side lobs of radar, so "compatibility" issue is strictly weather the avionics could display you proper R values. For R-77 I would say you need an upgrade. I would suggest against making such analogies. AWG-9 and AIM-54 comes from late 60s, with AMRAAMs likely being developer in 80s. That is a very long timespan with different technologies being employed causing these missiles to behave and perform radically differently. I would say you would likely need HB to do F-14D for this. I do believe that matter of historical accuracy (mind not the same as technical accuracy) should be handled by mission designers. They do decide weather or not they want to stick more with timeline or put more emphasis on balancing. E.g. in some cases redfor gets non-E version so the game can be fun for e.g. Mirage 2000C pilots. As for Germans and Polish, again a matter more for mission designers. E.g. in alternative universe if they were still part of Warsaw pact, I am pretty sure they would receive the missiles. Sorry for signaling this out but I take you were tracking this for a longer time than me. Can you tell us more about this? I did read the one of the IRL manual and noted certain inconsistency when it comes to classification and a missing feature on top of it, but I am curious to learn more on this subject.

I think the main reason here would probably be E variants not being exported outside of Soviet union. The R-27 was from the very beginning envisioned as modular missile family, where the guidance sections, warhead, motors and seekers (SARH, IR and passive radar) were be combined (probably to reduce costs). The only difference between R-27ER and R-27R is the larger motor. Everything else is exactly the same, including the same power supply limit of 60 seconds (IMHO: ER/ET would benefit from extra 20 seconds). The missiles even get primed the same way through radar side lobs. The only difference that would cause some issues is the RMax indication, but even if they do not update the radar to take into account this, the pilot could always launch it with launch override.

Technically speaking 9.12 were upgraded to carry R77 IRL, off course this did include both radar and new MFD. However, I agree we would need to keep expectations limitted to IR and SARH missiles. Even present Mig 29 is not at that much of disadvantage, if it gains access to saner AWACS and/or DL. That said Razbam will be delivering in future Mig-23, which in theory should also be candidate for Lazur(this is just my speculation, I really have no clue what they will do). The logic is that if one gets this DL, so should the other as well. Why?

It takes more than one year to develop module from scratch. Since it is still a possibility in 2024, development must have started earlier. At minimum this will require radar updates, since Razbam kind off pushed the fidelity of radar simulation(m2k/f15e) further than ED(phase 3 for hornet and viper not reached yet).

In general built in AWACS is very bad solution. It gives you nearest bandit without any understanding if tactical situation. The mission based 3rd party alternatives are not much better, often ruining the reality while having same issur as built in. For 29 it would be cool to allow another player to sit inside lazur cabin.

To my best knowkedge Polish Mig-21 flight manual describes in details operation of Lazur, HUD symbology as well as ADI/HSI indicators being slaved to DL. For 23/29 this would be likely similar, but more refined due to Lazur-M. Both of these DLs were superseeded by more advanced DLs, and I doubt they are in operational use now.

The airframe #18151 was originally at 9-12A level. Somewhere in 2018 (along #18351) it was prepared for the upgrade to the Mig-29SM+. Apparently radar was upgraded allowing it to carry R-77. In addition it can use Kh-29. The picture was taken in 2022:

Well, ED was denying 29 will be done in the past, so lets wait and see...

I hope they meant Lazur-M

No, we do not, but still we do not know exactly which radar and avionics

Both 9-12 and 9-13 are known to have been upgraded to the level of Mig-29SM, thus making them more capable in terms of air to air and ground to ground.

Lazur-M. It would be call to actually add second seat for GCI operator. The guidance was done thourh HUD indication and HSI/ADI

Dude, lets cut this short: you got all this all wrong. In fact you are arguing with DCS veterans here. I hope this helps.

I think the issue here is 3 signals bring independant and arriving faster than minimal time needed to register event. You might want to try to delay the pulses relative to each other with timers. Also changing the switch type from default one in VKB might provide you with instant solution. My Gladiator is not with me, but I also do not have 3 state switch.

From module to module it depends how the switch/trigger events are registered. Typically there is a minimal amount of time needed to remain at high level, before DCS registers the event. E.g. Ka50, F16. However, there are examples where this is not the case, like JF17, where triggers are instant. For each device the lua declaration provides a variable declaring on how frequently the device is being processed. You might want to play with this and see if it helps, however editing lua will result in integrity check failure. At the moment I am away from home and can not tell you the name of the var.

I think this should be an option. Perhaps experimental?

Ever heard of "lend-lease"?

If you carry vikhrs, the vibrations will commence earlier... Depends on what you carried since you did not provide details. su-25A

On a weapon pannel, front the leftmost switch is labeled with auto. Place the little circle on the target, hit lock. Seaker will start tracking.

I would argue that fastest way to get into position is to go straight to the source of jamming.

@uboats likely this is a low hanging fruit...

yes, sorry for not replying. The TWS lock was lost due to target changing direction, so first missile went to the moon. Second one did hit.

Patience the devs did showcase FM today:

The only difference in MAN mode is that once you get the tone, you need to uncage the missile yourself. Also be aware that you can select front/rear aspect.

Perhaps, the bottleneck might be the way the textures are loaded from main RAM into the card itself. BTW upgrading to 64GB is not waste of money. It will make your machine work way less with the disk, since OS will cache lot's of files. In addition it will reduce the wear out of the disk itself (e.g. lower temperature).