Vivick Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Hello Friends, after having flown the Mig-21 in DCS for a while I'm really starting to like the plane and would like to learn a bit more about it:smilewink:. So I was wondering if anyone here could recommend me some reading material. I'm mainly interested in books about the development history, with a focus on the technical side of it (i.e. what challenges had the designers to overcome, and what are the peculiarities of the plane). Something about Russian air combat doctrine during the cold war would also be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooom Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 not sure about books but there is a fantastic "wings of the red star" documentary you can find on youtube that really dives into the tech side of things.... 1 ASUS Tuf Gaming Pro x570 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8 / XFX Radeon 6900 XT / 64 GB DDR4 3200 "This was not in the Manual I did not read", cried the Noob" - BMBM, WWIIOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vivick Posted October 20, 2015 Author Share Posted October 20, 2015 Thats a good start, Thanks! Added it to my watchlist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cripple Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Great episode. Very interesting. "Proper" voice-over too... :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WedlI91iZG8 My *new* AV-8B sim-pit build thread: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=3901589 The old Spitfire sim-pit build thread circa '16/17: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=143452 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flycat Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 https://ospreypublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=mig-21 osprey series + mig-21 highly recommend for "mig-21 unit on vitenam", I've read this one, other combat is not such interesting because trained not well... or tactical failure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vivick Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Thanks, I'll check that one out too! Do you also happen to own the "Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21" (AVG 14) one? Since I'm interested in the technical develpoment that might also be intersting, if it's any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art-J Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Well, "Mikoyan MiG-21" by Gordon, Dexter and Komissarov (Midland Publishing) is a 700+ pages hefty book, which has more development story than You can imagine, but it's difficult and expensive to get nowadays, unless You're really into -21 or search really deep withing the abyss of the internet. 1 i7 9700K @ stock speed, single GTX1070, 32 gigs of RAM, TH Warthog, MFG Crosswind, Win10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeIII Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Well, "Mikoyan MiG-21" by Gordon, Dexter and Komissarov (Midland Publishing) is a 700+ pages hefty book, which has more development story than You can imagine, but it's difficult and expensive to get nowadays, unless You're really into -21 or search really deep withing the abyss of the internet. +1 And yo can add: Lock On number 21: Mig-21 MF Walk Around Mig-21 Fishbed, part 1 and 2. By Hans Heiri Stapfer 4+ Publication Mig-21F/M, by Jaroslav Matoulek et.al. 1 AKA TANGO-117. DCS Modules: ALL. I7 6700k @ 4.9 GHz / 32 GB DDR4 @ 3.2 GHz / 950 Pro m.2 + 4xSSDs / Gigabyte 1080TI 11 GB OC / 48" 4K Curved Samsung TV / TM Warthog Hotas / TM TPR rudder pedals / Track IR. Private pilot and sailplane pilot in RL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vivick Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Thanks for the replies sofar guys! Well, "Mikoyan MiG-21" by Gordon, Dexter and Komissarov (Midland Publishing) is a 700+ pages hefty book, which has more development story than You can imagine, but it's difficult and expensive to get nowadays, unless You're really into -21 or search really deep withing the abyss of the internet. I Googled this and it looks really nice, too bad it's out of print:( I found a few copies, but they all go for 300€ or more, which is a bit much for me. I'll definitely keep an eye out on E-Bay tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retu81 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I recommend Suomen Ilmavoimien Lentokoneet: Mig-21 in Finnish Air Force. It's a bilingual book, both in Finnish and English, mainly about training and use of Mig-21 in Finland, but touches some technical aspects of the plane as well. What makes the book interesting is that the author is an actual test pilot with about 1500 hours in different Mig-21 variants. The only problem is that the publisher went bankrupt recently, so actually getting a copy might be difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flycat Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Out of stock, just download it. No one feel pity and guilty. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HugePanic Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 2 Reports are interesting: Have donut Make the best of the Mig-21 both can be downloaded and cover more or less the same topics: How to fight the mig-21 from contemporary us fighter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vivick Posted October 23, 2015 Author Share Posted October 23, 2015 2 Reports are interesting: Have donut Make the best of the Mig-21 both can be downloaded and cover more or less the same topics: How to fight the mig-21 from contemporary us fighter Thanks, downloaded both of these! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
313_Nevo Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 other combat is not such interesting because trained not well... or tactical failure. I will disagree here, there were lot of highly motivated and good trained pilots form other nations who successfully flown migs in combat. Osprey is good resource for this books. Also dont miss the http://www.acig.info thats an awesome resource for this and many more. :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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