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MiG-21F-13 External job is done, now let's go to the cockpit and aft cockpit details, pictures of the aft piping are welcome Not bad for 26k polys me thinks

Me, think that it might be again confusion in the designation system. Egypt had Mig-21RF - izd.94RA. The first Soviet MiG-21R was izd.03/izd.94R. All exported airframes were designated as izd.94RA -even for Egypt with underbelly fairing for cameras and those for European countries were also izd.94RA. Some airframes of MiG-21R (izd.94R) were upgraded with R-13 engines and then redesignated izd.96R (izd.96 was a prefix for 3rd generation airframes) - those were not for export. As for UB-32. If I remember correctly when carrying a UB-32 and/or 500kg bomb you have to remove part of the gear strut cover. I mean you can try, but I'm not going to say you'd be successful. It's just a matter of what's hardcoded and the like. Do not try to overthink it. You will make additional fuel tanks or something and it still will not be what you need. You can not expect miracles from an old game, Just adjust to what you can do. Tea was working on ODS30AE, we had a lot of ideas, but in the end, we had to make it work with what we had. In the game, for a model, you will use loadout.ini. and more likely there will be an R or D container loaded. Always. Just add a permanent flare dispenser via data.ini. - then it will always work. And If you want to carry a strike mission in R...just add SPS-141 under (also equipped with 2x ASO-2) and all will be fine. Remember this is a game, and in this game, you can not have everything the way it supposed to be.

What if....the USAF had taken on a few F-21's for their DACM exercises?

Sorry for the misunderstanding And the RMAF F1EM VI is also on our to do list

Funny facts to the east german CLA-87 pods. There were 3 different versions of this pod. One of this pods was to equippe with a videocamera. Small problem: in East Germany was no videocamera available. The own industrie was unable to build one and soviet video technic was crap. So the GDR found a nice solution. They bought some thousand Akai video recorders in Japan, which were sold in TV shops in the GDR. But this was only a coverstory. The real interesse was on a fistfull videocameras from Panasonic. This cameras wer not sold, but installed in the CLA-87 recon pods.

It was not a serial production, rather than a 'short run' Additionally you had to put the new electrical wiring in the aircraft, Some Polish Bis, R, and MF were modified. The idea was that any 21 could carry this, as long as it had new wiring for a pod. The principle of using Saturn-2 was that after the reconnaissance run, a pilot dropped a cassette with film over the command position. Pod used diffusion treatment of silver halogen photosensitive materials. The hydrophilic film was exposed at the time of photography and then photochemical processed on board the "plane" in a pod. This shortened circulation time of image information from several hours to about 20 minutes All D, R, and N had ASO-2 dispensers. N additionally had 152(?) illumination flare dispensers. Chechoslovakia also made an additional pod (refurbished D type) for calibrating land-based search radar stations. So technically as long as the pod is carried you can add a flare dispenser into the airframe via data.ini. I would do that, so AI flight and players could use it properly. A very early run of 21R had a pitot tube on the center of the nose LSK modified 21M into reconaisance role, and wingip SPO-3 was a part of modification. And. As I said, some 21R also had FODs, installed Here with N recon pod. Visible Illumination dispensers, and ASO-2 In the center at the pod's rear.

I think to prepare skins of the USAFE 401 TFW which use the Block 15 F-16A between 1983-1988 from Torrejon AB in Spain. The Light Weight Fighter par excellence !

Iron Tadpoles. Intruders of the Vietnam War. Still a work in progress but the first batch of drumsticks is ready. 1965 A-6A VA-75, CVW-7 USS Independence 5.10.1965 - 12.13.1965 A-6A VA-85, CVW-11 USS Kitty Hawk 10.19.1965 - 6.13.1966 1966 A-6A VA-65, CVW-15 USS Constellation 5.12.1966 - 12.3.1966 A-6A VA-35, CVW-9 USS Enterprise 11.19.1966 - 7.6.1967 A-6A VA-85, CVW-11 USS Kitty Hawk 11.5.1966 - 6.20.1967 1967 A-6A VA-196, CVW-14 USS Constellation 4.28.1967 - 12.4.1967 A-6A VA-65, CVW-17 USS Forrestal 6.6.1967 - 9.14.1967 A-6A VA-165, CVW-2 USS Ranger 11.4.1967 - 5.25.1968 A-6A and A-6B VA-75, CVW-11 USS Kitty Hawk 11.18.1967 - 6.28.1968 1968 A-6A VA-35, CVW-9 USS Enterprise 1.3.1968 - 7.18.1968 A-6A, A-6B VA-85, CVW-6 USS America 4.11.1968 - 12.16.1968 A-6A, A-6B VA-196, CVW-14 USS Constellation 5.29.1968 - 1.31.1969 A-6A VA-52, CVW-15 USS Coral Sea 9.7.1968 - 4.18.1969 A-6A VA-165, CVW-2 USS Ranger 10.26.1968 - 5.17.1969 A-6A, A-6B VA-65, CVW-11 USS Kity Hawk 12.30.1968 - 9.4.1969 coming soon...1969 -1973

SAAB/IAI J-35I D'rakon, 170th Squadron "The Orange Tails", 1971 There was already a israeli Draken from me, but I decided to redo it.

animation 1 is the whole landing gear so i like to avoid that , why dont you edit the cockpit.ini file ??? and link the cockpit animation to the aircraft one

oh, and Kentucky's done. dunno why 822 was special enough for a color cap, but it had it......

this is a FASCINATING thread! Expecially for those of us in the West. Please keep it going!!!

I made some remarks to show which recon pod belongs to East Germans and which to the Polish. It could be, that the polish pods based on UB-32 pod, while the east german pods were modified UB-16.

The F1M is the next one on our to do list.

that is what i have now for the F-16A_B10 , let me know if i missed something

hats off to you sir a USAF wing set can often be hard to pin down. and there's generally more photographers on an air force base than a carrier underway! so i can imagine the fun youre having with that

well, it all started as skin pack for thirdwire Intruders. And It was nearly done, but then GKABS released his model. So soon after I started to import my work onto new skins for his model. We made some changes, lot of changes to data and now I have bunch of skins for all A-6 deployments during Vietnam War - compatible with my previous work on A-7 and some other ongoing WIPs (full CVW set for specific cruise). It will be available soon, or little more than two weeks. Still researching some serial numbers. Noteworthy is that those camouflaged birds are made via decals, so we have only few birds with famous experimental camouflages within squadron. It is not perfect, but it is good enough in my opinion. You will see. I think I still have some data work to do, just to add more compatibility to A-7, A-4 in matter of MER and TER racks.

This statement is wrong and true at the same time. Of course this plates were helpfull to avoid FOD. Thatswhy they were refitted also on gunless MiG-21 versions. But the origin of this plates were war experiences. When the MiG was in a close dogfight at low speeds and low altitudes, the plane was flown with a good angle of attack and full afterburner. In such situation the engines needed much more air, than the air intake could deliver. The doors of auxilary air intakes were opend automatically. If in such a situation the gun was fired, the gun smoke had a good chance to were sucked into the auxillary air intakes, which caused compressor stalls and a flame out. The engine died and the pilot had only one choice: to use the ejection seat. During Vietnam war, but also during arab-israeli clashes, some MiG-21 pilots shot down themself by firing the gun during low speed, low level dogfights. The cure of the problem was to add the protection plates, which, as a side effect, were helpfull to avoid FOD. So i have learned the story of the protection plates from east german fighter pilots.