MiG-21 Weapons Management

This page is about weapons management for the MiG-21bis.

Gun Sight

There is an external article describing the gun sight, which has not yet been migrated to this wiki.

The gun sight has fully customizable colors via the FlightGear dropdown menu MiG-21 -> Gunsight.

Weapons

Payload Information

There is an external article describing the possible weapons payload, which has not yet been migrated to this wiki.

Name	Type	Guidance	Range	Speed	Additional Info
R-3S	Missile	Infrared	8 km	Mach 2.5	Russia-cloned AIM-9
R-3R	Missile	Semi-Active Radar	8 km	Mach 2.5	Russia-cloned AIM-9
R-60	Missile	Infrared	8 km	Mach 2.7
R-27R1	Missile	Active Radar	73 km	Mach 4.5	Later variants only
R-27T1	Missile	Infrared	63 km	Mach 4.5	Later variants only
Kh-66	Missile	Beam Rider	10 km	2700 km/h
Kh-25MP	Missile	Anti Radiation	42 km	1620 km/h
UB-16	Rocket Pod	N/A			Fires S-5 rockets
UB-32	Rocket Pod	N/A			Fires S-5 rockets
S-5	Rocket	Unguided	5 km	300 m/s	Fired from UB-16/32
S-24	Rocket	Unguided
FAB-100	A/G	Unguided Freefall bomb
FAB-250	A/G	Unguided Freefall bomb
FAB-500	A/G	Unguided Freefall bomb

Weapons Loading

Load and re-load of weapons can be done on the ground. Most weapons are changed using the drop-down menu Equipment -> Fuel and Payload.

Flares/chaff can be added to the left and right fuselage attachment points (Conformal CM). They can be reloaded using drop-down menu MiG-21 -> Reload Flares/Chaff.

The gun is loaded on start-up of the simulation. Re-loading is currently only possible by re-starting FlightGear.

Rockets

There is a ripple setting for launching rockets. However, please be aware that if the button / keyboard control is only pressed shortly, then only one rocket is released no matter the ripple setting. Therefore: hold down the button the whole time.

Rocket aiming is a lot like gun aiming - and they basically act like bullets (due to limits in the current implementation).

Missiles

KH-66

The KH-66 requires the radar in beam mode and the weapon selector to the appropriate S-24 position.

Flares / Chaff

The current CM “pods” are Yugoslavian in origin, and there isn't much info online about them. The implementation assumes the front 9 holes were for chaff, and the rear 20 were for flares.

Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)

Each of the four light bulbs represents one of the four sensors, not the system as a whole.

The RWR can be toggled between Day (yellow lights) and Night (red lights) by pressing on the gauge - but not in the middle, as that is the test button).

Depending on the relative position of the other aircraft, more than one light bulb might be on, as the aspect ranges of the sensors overlap each other. If there is more than one aircraft in range, then the blinking of the light bulbs might get infrequent /not constant rhythm, as each aircraft's radar scan passes over the sensors.

In the real aircraft the blink rate is based on aircraft, scan pattern, and distance. However, that has not yet been implemented.