Alexmarine

Check again their post and what I wrote, I specifically mentioned the 17F over the 17AS as they too differentiated between features that belonged to the specific version To people who wants missiles on a 17 I say in any case: Skill issue (I have zero-skill too but I content myself with dropping ordnances on enemy ground units )

If they release a MiG-17F with those features as that post I'll be more than satisfied, especially for the UB-16-57 pods. 17s served well into the early 80s as fighter-bombers for some Warsaw Pact countries and that's what I am the most interested in playing as in DCS. With hopefully a Su-17M coming one day too we get closer to slowly fill the soviet fighter-bombers aviation cold war line-up (we would need a Su-7 and a MiG-27 though...)

Agree with Zius and some1, Razbam fumbled with doing the MiG-19P instead of the much more common 19S (which could have been used also as the widely exported J-6) The plain MiG-17F is perfect for many scenarios and the additional pylons are something that many nations, that couldn't get better fighter-bombers, added to their 17s. The Egyptian rockets are also fine given we are getting a Sinai map... Now we only need an early Mirage III for those guns-only six-day war dogfights

Babe, wake up: Comrade Yolkhere just dropped "MiG-23 Soviet Air Force (part 2)"

Think you meant "MS", which indeed was basically a MiG-21 cosplaying as a MiG-23 and was a third world country export product. The MF was just the WP nations version of the soviet own -23M.

Fully accurate MiG-21 LanceR gameplay: 1)Take off 2)Get lost in bad weather and crash 3)Respawn in with CSAR Heli module (your choice between Mi-8 and UH-1) 4)Repeat step 2 5)Close game, proceed to buy an F-16 module key from a Norway reseller (Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental)

Given that even the Soviets only started to see the R-13M in 1974 along the early models of the R-60, for the 1969-1972 period the only IR missile you would have seen on MiGs is the R-3S. The R-3R was not cleared for export untill the mid-70s at the earliest, and ended mainly only in some Warpac countries arsenals. But I mean, the Bis itself probably started to get issued to soviet fighters units by the end of 1972/early 1973 so we are really on the edge of the timeframe. A better timeframe for more Bis flying around (at least for Soviets, and maybe the DDR) is from 1975 to 1979 (not counting units still flying them well into the 80s). Remember to take off the countermeasures pods too if you are flying anything pre-80s at the very least

The MiG-21Bis saw service with the Soviet VVS at the same time as the HB's F-4E saw service (for example in the European theatre). Historically they are closely related. Of course in combat, for example over Egypt or Vietnam, the F-4E encountered older models (mainly MiG-21F-13/PF/PFM/MF) because that's what was soviet authorities delivered at the time. On the other hand during the Iran-Iraq war of the '80s both the F-4E and the MiG-21Bis saw service in the two opposite sides and while there isn't any recorded specific encounter between the two one can use some fantasy to see how it would have played out.

Me and the boys after Hiromachi releases the MiG-21PFM 20XX, decolourised

March-April 1969

PLAAF spies that want us to fly a daylight only fighter well into even the early 2000s

I am with @Hiromachi on this one: along a Bis overhaul (paid or not will be their call, I'll be happy either way), I would like to see a MiG-21PFM as an eventual additional MiG-21 module. It's a variant that was widely spread both in users and in periods it served and still has interesting systems modelled on it (RP-21M radar, Kh-66 missiles etc.)