MiG-21 Weapons Management

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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.

Weapons

Payload Information

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

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.

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.