If you’re planning to fly the DCS: MiG-29A when it releases, you may want to brush up on your MiG-29 knowledge and Eagle Dynamics Matt Wagner is here with the first of many tutorial videos aimed at getting us up to speed on the aircraft. Let’s check out this first video and see what we can learn and spot on the forthcoming module.
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The community has been hoping for a slightly more modern full fidelity Russian-made aircraft for quite some time and Eagle Dynamics are getting a little closer to providing us with the ability to experience one of them in DCS World.
Matt Wagner starts off the video with an overview of the aircraft. This is a MiG-29A also known as Project 9-12A which, if my reading on this is correct, is a Warsaw Pact variant of the aircraft exported to East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Sudan, and Romania. These aircraft first entered service in the 1980s and some of them are still flying today.
Matt mentions the well know ability of the aircraft to carry R-27 (AA-10) and R-73 (AA-11) missiles, bomb and rockets for ground attack, the elctro-optical sight in the nose, and helmet mounted sighting system for high angle engagements. You can see the helmet display around the 1:50-minute mark. It’s noticeably different from the display available in the Flaming Cliffs 3 version.
The rest of the video is a detailed walk-through of each part of the cockpit. You’ll notice that the cockpit has notably higher detail levels than the Flaming Cliffs variant. Of course, as a high fidelity DCS World module, it’s all fully clickable and the systems simulation depth is considerably higher.
I expect in future videos we’ll see more from Matt Wagner on how the various systems work which is where the biggest differences will no doubt be found between the simplified Flaming Cliffs version and this aircraft. More to come!
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