Farlander Posted January 17, 2015 Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) The big improvements in production MiG-15Bis vs MiG-15 were: - New VK-1/RD-45F engine (slight difference in form factor so minor adjustments to fuselage. RD-45 was the initial copy of the Rolls-Royce Nene, and was devloped into the RD-45F that was further delvloped into the VK-1) - Hydraulically-assisted ailerons. Further improvements to some of the MiG-15Bis in production. - NS-23 cannon was replaced after a while with NP-23 cannons firing alot faster. (NS-23 - 550 rpm, 690 m/s. NR-23 - 800-850 rpm, 690 m/s) - Cockpit with improvements to viewing. - Cockpit pressurizaton bleed for Gee suit. - Sirena-2 (RWR). - Better dive breaks. - More cockpit armor. - A engine self-starting system. - And a some were built with Anti-skid and braking-chute. But heres some interesting Modifications and variants they tested: MiG-15UTI - Trainer. MiG-15BisP - Five MiG-15's built with the Toriy radar. - Radar was too difficult to use and it proved itself very unreliable. MiG-15Bis All weather - 2 MiG-15Bis aircrafte were fitted with OSP-48, ARK-5, MRP-48, RV-2 (Low altitude radar altimeter) - Some were produced and 16 MiG-15Bis's were modified and used successfully in combat. MiG-15Bis RP-1 Izumrud Modification. - Used the RP-1 Izumrud radar instead that was less complicated than the Toriy (The RP-1 Izumrud was basically a radar gunsight) - It consisted of two radars. A search radar, and a tracking radar. - Armament was reduced to 23mm cannons. MiG-15BisS - Escort fighter with extra fuel (modified wings to hold 600L instead of the 400L tanks). And extra oxygen for the pilot. - doubled the endurance. - 49 Built in 1951. MiG-15BisR - Reconnissance aircraft. - Replaced one of the 23mm cannons with a camera. - 600L fuel tanks. - 364 Built. MiG-15Bis modified with SRD-3 Grad. - Copy of F-86's AN/APG-30. - Only one aircraft built as it showed itself to be inferior to the Izumrud. izdeliye SU - MiG-15 modified with a pivoting Shpitalny Sh-3 23 millimeter cannon. - Could pivot 11 degrees up, and 7 degrees down. - Were aimed with a sight that had automatic target tracking. - Testing was done in 1951 and had potential, but did not go into production. MiG-15bis-ISh - Ground attack aircraft. - 12 built, but was ended because of another ground attack aircraft was being built. Burlaki - Tu-4 towing project - MiG-15Bis fighters would be towed after the Tu-4 bomber with engines off to provide escort on long missions. - worked, but was dropped because the pilot would freeze and it was hard to find the bomber and link up again Air-refueling - In 1953 some MiG-15Bis's were modified to be refueled by the Tu-4 with Hose-and-drogue. This proved to Be a better solution than the burlaki. Ejection seats - Some MiG-15UTI Trainers were modified with an ejection seat. - One test involved using the canopy to clamp down over seat to protect the pilot. This method was used on early production MiG-21 fighters. MiG-15M/Msh -Target drones. Czech MiG-15's - PPZ-1 Blind landing system. - some were made into target tugs. - Converted to use RATO. - One was converted to carry the K-13 missile. - Runway De-icer :lol: Polish MiG-15's (LIM-1/LIM2) - Some converted to trainers. SBLIM-1/SBLIM-2. - Outraged by the gloriousness of what the czech did, they made some into a railway de-icer. :megalol: Chinese MiG-15's - Surprisingly the Chinese did not build any MiG-15 fighters themself, they only made the JJ-2 (MiG-15UTI). If you see something wrong, tell me and i will fix it :) Edited January 18, 2015 by Farlander All weather capable MiG-15
Farlander Posted January 21, 2015 Author Posted January 21, 2015 Information on the MiG-15Bis variant we are getting in game can now be seen on the DCS store. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/mig15bis/ Looking glorious Belsimtek!
Basco1 Posted January 21, 2015 Posted January 21, 2015 Beautiful,however still no date of release given,just 'will be available February 2015'. Chillblast Fusion Cirrus 2 FS Pc/Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake CPU/Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1070 G1 8GB/Seagate 2TB FireCuda SSHD/16GB DDR4 2133MHz Memory/Asus STRIX Z270F Gaming Motherboard/Corsair Hydro Series H80i GT Liquid Cooler/TM Warthog with MFG 10cm Extension/WINWING Orion Rudder Pedals (With Damper Edition)/TrackiR5/Windows 11 Home
Farlander Posted January 21, 2015 Author Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) Beautiful,however still no date of release given,just 'will be available February 2015'. yes, but i can feel it in the air that release is "imminent™" Farlander does not take responsability for any jokes about release dates. Use at own risk. :music_whistling: Edited January 21, 2015 by Farlander
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