Matt Wagner teaches us about DCS: MiG-29’s Sensor Cooperative Mode

January 18, 2026

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A new tutorial video from Matt Wagner details some of the updates to DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum’s sensor suite with the ability to use the type’s cooperative mode to coordinate sensors onto target. It’s a feature that I hadn’t learned much about until this video so you may also find it interesting.

Sensors cooperating

In this 6 minute video, Matt Wagner from Eagle Dynamics, takes us through the various combinations of settings for DCS: MiG-29’s sensor cooperative mode. When enabled, the jet’s IRST and radar work collaboratively to find and maintain a lock on a targeted aircraft. If, for example, the radar loses the lock but the IRST still has it, the avionics will switch over to IRST as primary until the radar reacquires it. That’s just one combination as you can also have the IRST act as primary with radar in the backup. There’s also the helmet sighting and close combat configurations all of which have various nuances to each combination.

If you fly the MiG-29 regularly, check this one out.

5 responses to “Matt Wagner teaches us about DCS: MiG-29’s Sensor Cooperative Mode”

PaperPilot

January 18, 2026 at 4:36 pm

Would you like to see a MiG-29M some time in the 2030s as the next full fidelity Red For aircraft after the full fidelity Su-25?

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1. mindfullywanderlustba207ac501
  
  January 18, 2026 at 5:34 pm
  
  Good Luck finding any information on it. The M has been rebranded as the MiG-35 and has no export partners and is not operated en masse by the RuAF.
  
  You might be able to find info on the carrier capable MiG-29K which has updated avionics (2000ish-2010ish level), more fuel and a differnt airframe, and was exported to India and was used in small numbers by the Russian Navy. India is getting rid of them as obsolete right now and Russia isnt likley to ever use thiers again and have been sitting in long term storage.
  
  The most likley module would either be the MiG-23, SU-17, or early SU-27A or SU-27P or SU-33 which is just a carrier capable super early 27.
  
  If you get the MiG-23 you basically have the entire Cold War combat line in full fidelity of Red European Fighters in game minus the SU-17/22, MiG-19 and MiG-27. The rest of the aircraft were used by the PVO stranny and never left Soviet Union.
  
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2. ShamrockOneFive
  
  January 19, 2026 at 10:18 pm
  
  I very much doubt anything like that would be possible, so, no. My wish-lists are nearly always pragmatic and based in what we could see.
  
  I strongly suspect that Eagle Dynamics themselves, now that I know about the Su-25 full fidelity in the future, will probably then follow that up with the Su-27. Complete the Lock On: Modern Air Combat Set. By the time that rolls around, 4-5 or more years from now, the early Flanker should be doable.
  
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  1. PaperPilot
    
    January 20, 2026 at 9:05 pm
    Being pragmatic is a very good way to make a wishlist. Now that I think about it, I think there are a lot of pre-70s cold war aircraft for the Red-side I would like to see.
    
    The MiG-19P/S remake
    
    MiG-21Bis/MF/PFM remake
    
    MiG-23
    
    MiG-25
    
    MiG-27
    
    Su-7
    
    Su-9
    
    Su-11
    
    Su-15 (controversial though for the downing of KAL 007 in 1983)
    
    Su-17/22
    
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Petrel76

January 19, 2026 at 1:59 am

MiG-29 in Flaming Cliffs taught us many bad habits. We learnt that RWR always works well, that we only need to press the “lock” button, not hold it, and that we have target box on HUD.

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