Fixed that for you
âŚactually very few, if any, things to vent in 2019. I absolutely love the MiG-19 and though I have been unable to try out the AV-8 I purchased last fall (due to my unfortunate accident) I am looking forward to spend many hours with it in the new year. Very much looking forward to your 2020 offerings!
Not a video but a general statement from RAZBAM
"*Good morning.
Recently I have noticed a lot of rumours regarding which projects we are working on with a lot of old imagines are being shared on here and other social media with some believing we have started working on the eagle now.
As stated many times we are still committed to completing our existing modules before moving onto coding for new modules.
The 3D modeller for the eagle for the past 4 months has been busy upgrading the textures of the mirage cockpit and now finishing the amazing new pilot. When Tim has finished these tasks he will move onto the Eagle.
When the Coders have finished the existing modules they will move onto new aircraft as its known we have 3 coders and 4 artists and a separate terrain team.
This is what we are working on at the moment.
Team 1 (two coders) are working on the existing aircraft bugs
Team 2 (third coder) is currently working on FM tweaks
Team 3 (3d modeller) is making the new VR pilot for the mirage (then the F15 model)
Team 4 (3D modeller) is working on the Mig23
Team 5 (2x 3D modellers) are working on the ai assets for the falklands)
Team 5 is making the Falklands map
Hope this helps stop the rumour mill from spinning wildly out if control.*
Maybe this is just start-of-the-year-euphoria but I really think ED and the third parties are improving a lot in their communication and also in development. 2019 was a good DCSW year and 2020 looks like it could become as good.
@Phantom88, is there any way we can get Team 4âs mail address in order to ship them large quantities of coffee and chocolate? Or at least pass them words of encouragement like, âKeep working! Sleep is overrated!â.
I think I seek for al likeminded Mudspikeans when I say, the sooner we see a MiG-23 the better!
Which version of the MiG-23 was that, again? (I like the ones with a decent radar and multi-role).
Either way: almost a guaranteed buy for me. I like that plane a lot.
I donât care about bombs or radar, all I want is to sweep the wings back and go fast for the motherland!
Make some female dogs dive for their mothersâ protective bosoms as you scorch the earth with raw Tumanski power!
Technically the MiG-23 is the air-to-air variant that can employ some A2G weapons like rockets and dumb bombs. The MiG-27 is the variant that has some A2G sensors in the nose in place of the A2A radar. It gives the MiG-27 more A2G capability, muckiest like the Su-25 FROGFOOT.
That said, they both share the FLOGGER NATO codename. A2A are FLOGGER B. E, G. A2G are FLOGGER D, F.
EDIT: @schuremâs photo appears to be a FLOGGER B. (Large radar nosecone and âbentâ leading edge tail. The FLOGGER E has a smaller nosecone (export version using the MiG-21 radar) while the FLOGGER G has the big nosecone but a straight tail leading edge.
Thereâs also the -23BN variant that did have the fighter versionâs adjustable air intakes that make it go fast but also the -27âs duck nose full of Su-25 avionics.
The Yefim Gordon is strong in this one.
Yefim Gordon is the Russian Bill Gunston
Sorry guys, I am genetically incapable using the Russian designations for aircraftâŚor basically anything else that is, or is derived from Soviet equipment.
I think the one that I meant was the ML or MLDâŚ
Primarily a fighter, upgraded with a decent radar and an improved airframe (the first few versions werenât exactly stable, one test pilot described it as âthe engine tried to rip the airframe apartâ) and also capable of carrying a decent amount of A-G weapons.
I believe its the MiG-23MLD (Flogger-K), so basically the very best. I canât find a source for it though. I thought they wanted to do the MLA at first but then decided to go for the MLD but I canât find where/if they said that.
Floggers were so frikkinâ awesome. The -27âs (that would be the Flogger F) gun was so powerful, it would often break most of the avionics with itâs mighty roar and if unlucky the airframe as well.
The one I pictured, an early fighter version (flogger B), was flown by the famous Red Eagles, a clandestine USAF outfit operating out of Groom Lake. They hated the flogger and called it a death trap.
I remember when I was 12 or so, one flew from East Germany all the way to Belgium without its pilot, who had ejected over an itchy bum or some such thing. The plane flew on with no care in the world until it ran out of fuel.
Yeah, I canât wait to get my hand on that baby
It sounds like youâre talking GSh-6-30. I thought those were only on the -27Kâs (Flogger D/Jâs), the Flogger-Fâs (werenât those 23âs? 23BN?) carried the GSh23L IIRC.
And crack the HUD and front canopy glass!
Is that true? Because its fricking awesome.
Holy s**t!!
On the MiG-27 âFloggerâ the GSh-6-30 had to be mounted obliquely to absorb recoil. The gun was noted for its high (often uncomfortable) vibration and extreme noise. The airframe vibration led to fatigue cracks in fuel tanks, numerous radio and avionics failures, the necessity of using runways with floodlights for night flights (as the landing lights would often be destroyed), tearing or jamming of the forward landing gear doors (leading to at least three crash landings), cracking of the reflector gunsight, an accidental jettisoning of the cockpit canopy and at least one case of the instrument panel falling off in flight. The weapons also dealt extensive collateral damage, as the sheer numbers of fragments from detonating shells was sufficient to damage aircraft flying within a 200-meter radius from the impact center, including the aircraft firing