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MiG-29 is limited to 5G's with centerline tank, Su-27 is the same at 100%, AFAIK the 9G fuel limit of a Flanker is 5500kg. The MiG has no G limits on internal fuel, it can pull 9G's with 100%. I'll look in to the manual when I get back cause I'm pretty sure the Su-27 has severe limitations of G-load while carrying R-27 missiles, something like 5G's but I have to double check that.

Copy that Viper, thanks for the heads up. I guess I didn't have the ammo or the patience to persist. Another thing I noticed also- it depends on the angle you shoot. If you dive at 30-40 degrees and shoot on the top of the turret it's pretty much gone with one pass of internal cannon. But if you fly low and shoot from very small angle (on the side armor) you'll cause much less or no damage to an M-1.

Yeah same here, I was also shooting with both gunpods and internal cannon. My point is that the gunpods cause no damage to tanks, it was the 30mm that rip them off, the 23mm is, well, just nice to watch :) Try shooting from internal or gunpods only at the same conditions (angle) and you'll see the difference.

I remember that flight, Case. But I believe it was the internal gun that did the job, I've shot M-1's point blank with gunpods only and nothing. I made 3-4 passes on 1 tank with gunpods and it still stays.

You wanna hear what's fun? Put 4 gunpods and go dogfight :D

Trouble is that the default chaff model in LO is waaay too effective, sometimes only one pop trashes a missile. Radioactive chaff like Yoda likes to say. Reducing the onboard chaff load is his approach to deal with that issue. Energy dodging is still valid though.

The F-15 now has 1/3 of the default chaff (40), Flanker has 30 and MiG has 20. In fact, the mods affects the F-15 at highest degree.

Yeah of course, the much better flight modelling of Su-25(T) in LO makes straffing harder than the A-10 which is like flying on rails :)

I only use them with fixed barrels, can't fly the plane so precise to use automatic barrel deflection to locked by the laser point. Accuracy is pretty much the same is of the built-in cannon. It's fun to shoot both from it and the gunpods at the same time :D

Simple- 23mm vs 30mm. The gunpods are useless against tanks but work pretty good versus light armor and trucks.

Now low flyers and maddoggers will think twice before doing it ;) What people should consider is that the only purpose of this mod is to imrpove realism and gameplay. It adresses some of the most discussed things about eventual 1.13 patch so I encourage all people who have expressed their opinion in the 1.13 thread to give it a try. You'll be pleasantly surprised ;)

I just read that the two planes have returned to their home, Engels AB, after night midair refueling over Norwegian Sea.

I suppose you mean vortex ring state. Yes, it's there. Blade stall is defined for retreating blade in forward flight, not in hover.

I wouldn't say the tandem design has any balance advantages over the coaxial. But it's true that the rotors arrangement determines the overal structure and size of the helicopter- while the tandem requires a very long fuselage (that provides a lot of room for internal cargo) the coaxial design allows to make a very compact helicopter because of the lack of torque balancing tailboom. Crucial factor for naval operation, that's why you won't see anything but Kamov helicopters on russian ships ;) Another fact- nothing hovers better than coaxial helicopter.

It does. The upper rotor downwash is narrowed and intersects the lower rotor disk in about 0.8-0.85 of the radius. Thus the lower rotor interacts with additional air from radius 0.85-1.0 which adds lift.

I'll try to put it without the scarry mathematics that stand behind the answer of your question. For every helicopter rotor there's one very important parameter which determines it's efficiency. Not sure about the exact english term but the closest translation is 'fill ratio'- it is the proportion between the sum of all blades' surfaces (projection of the blade in the rotor disk) and the rotor disk area. The optimal value is 7-9%. This range provides the best aerodynamic and power efficency of the rotor. Every gas-turbine helicopter has a powerplant governed at Nr=const. This is another initial parameter that determines the number of blades, their shape (lenght), airfoil(s) etc. The basic rule while designing the rotor is to predict the velocity field during blade's azimuthal motion- blade's tip must not reach critical Mach numbers where local shock waves might occur- those phenomenas will highly decrease rotor's performance, increase the noise and structural loads of the whole construction. If you design a helicopter that should hit 300km/h you must pay attanetion on rotor's diameter and rotor governed RPM. By choosing a fill ratio will give you the number of blades and their chord. Reducing the aspect ratio (the length) of the blade is a bad decision- like a fixed wing this causes increased induced drag. Simple illustration of the advantages of the coaxial rotor is the experiments made by Kamov design bureau with two rotors- one single rotor with 6 blades and one coaxial in 2x3 (same blades- diameter and shape) set of counter rotating rotors. Both rotors (considering the coaxial rotor as one rotor composed of two counter rotating rotors) have the same RPM, collective pitch and fill ratio. The results have shown that the coaxial rotor needs in total 22% less power to create the same lift.

Don't listen to anyone here, there's only one truth: one way or another - we all suck :D Guess what - when BS comes out you'll suck too! :D

Ability to carry a pod with the Kopye Doppler radar which allows: - using R-77 missiles versus airborne targets; - using Kh-31A and Kh-35 antiship missiles; SPO-15 Beryoza replaced by L-150 Pastel which allows use of the Kh-31P antiradar missile. The rest I think is the same.

During this week took place tha anual real missiles launch exercises of the Bulgarian fighter squadrons along with various SAM sites at the Shabla shooting range, northern Black Sea coast. Both MiG-21 and MiG-29 aircraft have flown, some of them by young pilots making their first real launches of R-60 missiles (both fighters). More experienced pilots have used R-3S older IR missiles (MiG-21), R-73 and R-27R missiles (MiG-29 and MiG-29UB(only R-60 and R-73)). All launches are reported successful, some details are released only about the R-27R launches- a RC drone (RCS less than 1 sq.m.) is shot down at low altitude feet wet. 358 261 Hard&Heavy 114 427 294 38 with R-73 32 with R-27R 32 39 26 11

Not quiet. It ain't that easy to evade your own missiles ;)

Ahhh, that is so sweet... Barrel rolls, last second pulls.. yeah baby! You don't have to work yourself so hard. My technique is this- I fly head-on to the bandit at full burner, I shoot like crazy and within 25km I press the magic button that activates the "automatic missile spoofing mod" which enables the hardcoded boomerang mode of the missiles. Trouble is that my own missiles start chasing me but hey, at least I dodge bandit's missiles 100% :D Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm bored...

I started with Flanker 1's demo on my friend's PC. I went deeper after i bought my first PC in 2000 and moved to Flanker 2.0. Have all the expansions of all ED sims.

No, actualy you recieve lock warning in HOJ in the MiG/Su, I don't think there's any difference from the F-15 in LO.

You get no warning in HOJ shot until you turn off your jammer or you're within burnthrough.

BTW, the AIM-7 in LO has exactly the same seeker model like the R-27R/ER/EM. Same for the AIM-120 and R-77- they only differ in energy (77 is faster) and smoke trail. We have 3 types of seeker models- active, semi and infrared. But I hear your SARH pain- it pisses me off sometimes when it misses from point blank but I've seen it doing crazy things. I say- it's good for the gameplay, makes you think a bit more.