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