Hiromachi

Having fought F-14B countless times I can say that its not easy. But F-14 is beatable and more realistic than F-4E Ai which maintains over you constant energy advantage while carrying 8 missiles and maneuvering hard. I was thinking however of adding that as a part of Persian Gulf Instant Action. Iraqi MiG-21 vs Iranian F-14A would make a neat dogfight.

R-73 doesnt make MiG-21 competitive against modern jets. It merely provides it with more capable missile despite ancient avionics in comparison to anything else flying. As for Magic I being or not being more capable than R-60. That might be right. But I'm looking at it from historical scenario. If you want any historical and realistic middle eastern mission involving Arab states and Israel, for instance on the upcoming Syria map, than you have to consider that there were no R-60s. Primary missiles available to Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq and Libya in 1973 were mere R-3S which almost half a decade earlier proved to be near useless in any dogfight. Some R-13s were also available, but its not a huge improvement. So Magic I that Iraqi managed to attach becomes a lot more impressive missile as it essentially evens the ground with potential opponents (F-4Es had AIM-9D and later AIM-9G even, but not many of those. Mirage III had the same Magic I. And of course Israeli jets had Shafrir missile). As for pylon integration. Well, for one it would be nice to have a closer up picture showing how it is attached. You dont expect Rudel to jam that APU-73 or Magic pylon into 21s wing ? Electric schematics would also be nice, though its more in case additional lights were installed in the cockpit to indicate seeker acquiring target. Those are details that do not prevent any addition but certainly in DCS are important.

There is clearly visible some form of extension or connection between the 21 wing pylon and missile rail. 21bis is capable of shooting similar missiles by design (mentioned R-3S being a copy of AIM-9B), but they might not have same attachments as APU-13 or APU-60 / -60-II.

I think out of the few missile "upgrades" conducted by various countries, it's installation of Magic I on Iraqi MiG-21s that is more viable. Of course in the same manner a question about the exact pylon installation for the Magic remains.

He mentioned that parameters are overestimated. The first picture with a pair of graphs indicates on the first (left) G load in sustained turn with two R-3S missiles (weight - 7500 kg, engine with 2nd afterburner engaged) and on the second (right graph) same situation but engine operates at 1st stage afterburner and than Military Power (No afterburner). Second picture is a comparison between MiG-21bis and MF in sustained turns. Bis uses 2nd stage afterburner which clearly shows the advantage over MF. The interesting and important part in this is that 2nd stage afterburner advantage increases with the speed. Engine is more efficient at higher airspeeds so if one is turnfighting its important to maintain the speed, optimally 1150 km/h. Of course thats theory, combat is dynamic. Shmal online in F-5 is really capable, so he wont fall into that ;)

Hello Shmal, thanks for bringing this to our attention. First, if I'm reading you're diagram correctly, for 800 km/h IAS it should be rather 4.9 G than 4.7 G. Second I'm not entirely sure what you understand by steady turn, since by the looks of your tacview picture you've made single turn rather than sustained, which it should be (so turn at constant speed, turn rate and altitude). This is further obvious when I looked into my documents and found this: This comes from the document titled: Samolot MiG-21bis Charakterystyki lotno-techniczne, Poznań (Poland), 1980 which describes in great detail aircraft flight characteristics. It uses term "zakręt ustalony" which corresponds to English sustained turn. I assume the picture you had comes from English translation of Russian MiG-21 Flight Manual ? I could find the same picture in Polish MiG-21bis Flight Manual, which also uses term: "zakręt ustalony". So in either case, steady turn = sustained turn with constant speed, turn rate and altitude. The other case is of course loadout, since default instructions referred to Group I as R-3S rather than R-60. But that would produce small difference so lets leave it aside. Finally, I'm not sure why there is a discrepancy since they give varying data for the same altitude (H - 1 km), same weight (7500kg) and same speed range. But I'm going with the above document as it focuses exclusively on aircraft flight characteristics and contains a lot more details for turn radius, etc. It's also close to what I've found for in Combat Manual for the MiG-21bis: Slight difference in this one is likely due to lower altitude by some 500 m. You tacview indicates speed of 0,68 Mach, which corresponds to the 5.3 - 5.4 G in the graph from the MiG-21 Flight and Technical Characteristics document so it would appear its spot on or extremely close.

I will ask devs about it but I'm not sure why you bind rudder controls to a button ? You dont have rudder pedals or at least twist in your joystick ?

Yes, more liveries. We have English cockpit, Russian cockpit and Chinese cockpit. And someone is already making Finnish (which personally I think is superb). So three versions (dirty, mid dirty and clean) of each language version ? Now when it comes to clean / not clean. Part of daily maintenance was to keep canopy clean and dirt free. I dont have that many high quality pictures showing canopy of combat ready units but even from that range its not hard to see that glass was kept in nothing less than perfect condition: Here is picture from the inside once I had a chance to make a visit to a museum and seat myself in 21MF: That one stood in museum for a couple years and shows obvious dusting and some smudges, either from touching it by visitors or rain or anything else. But despite that its still fairly translucent.

Tell Rudel to teach me how to Photoshop 101.

Any results of those tests ? Any influence of todays update on that ? No Cold War, no fun :helpsmilie:

I cant confirm that. Tried in instant action on Caucasus and Nevada and both times I run out of fuel which caused flameout. Had another user conduct test with me and same with him, he also had a flameout.

I did check it and confirm the issue, will ask Dolphin but to be fair I'm not sure what you expected to see. You have exceeded with such loadout maximum weight by nearly 900 kg. Pair of SPRDs adds 500 kg.

I will ask Rudel ;)

He means using the aircrafts body as huge brake.

This is being worked on, permanent fix will come with improved collision model.

Fixed internally, waiting for a hotfix or a patch to deliver it.

The FPS drop can only be related to gauge lights since they use new lightning.

Known and forwarded already. Rudel will look into it.

We've hammered all the dirt and gunk. Along with the glass.

I think we just got robbed. We do not know the identity of the offender yet but we have contacted Eagle Dynamics Police Department and cooperate with them closely to find the suspect and bring him to justice. In the meantime please remember to keep your oxygen mask fit tightly :)

Already reported and known: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=277551 Thank you!

Have to stick to default cockpit (non English livery). We're looking into it.

Forwarded, thank you!

Yes, that is known. Thanks for the report Juancio!

Yes, English cockpit has issues. Reported already. Thank you!