EVERY SOVIET MISSILE IN DETAIL | R-3S to R-27ER

13:13 aged well...

“The only thing keeping the R-27ER in place is the fact any plane can only carry 2 of them” SU-27, 4 ERs and 2 ETs or 6 ERs 😭

Su-57 confirmed??

jaek is the new GOAT of well produced and high effort vids, a big thank you from the community

13:17 “no plane can carry more than two of them” Su-27: 😂

Him: "R73 will be in jets probably at the end of the year" Gaijin: * proceeds to add them to mig29 *

R-60 series together with R-73 were missiles specifically designed for dogfights (R-60 was the first missile In the world designed for this) so they had to be light And were somewhat expected to be launched from the closest distance possible

Recently started grinding the Soviet tree with the MiG-23ML, and am just astounded at the R-24R. I already have the entire American and Israel trees, but this R-24R feels so much more consistent than Sparrows. Maybe its the inertial guidance, that thing gets so many kills if you lose lock a second or so too early. It almost feels like 2 free kills when you have those. I don't have the MiG-29 yet but I feel like the R-27ER is going to be insane.

Fun fact about the R-13M. It was introduced in locked on for the MiG-19PT alongside the AiM-9E and was removed after a single patch before it was reintroduced for the MiG-21Bis in New Power and remained until the M1 replaced it. I remember seeing it on the PT back in 2019 and it functioned pretty much identical to the 9E

one thing worth noting about the R-27R is that it has exactly ONE advantage over the ER: sheer turn radius. the 27ER (kinda like the R.550 Magics) suffer from what i call "excessive speed", where sometimes their insane acceleration just rockets em past a close range, high-aspect shot. the R-27R however has none of that issue but still flies with ALL of the maneuverability R-27s have. when u are feeling a little silly, try taking 1x 27ER and 1x 27R into custom battles and watch how ABSOLUTELY LETHAL R-27Rs can be within 3-5km on a bandit. i would go so far as to say they even have mild off-boresight shot capabilities :3

I really enjoy the R-3R on the MiG-21S. Quite a lot of people dont expect a missile coming at them during a head-on. Its also an absolute F-104 killer. Every match I fly quite high and get some unsuspecting harriers or starfighters, either during head ons or when they are just flying in a straight line.

Glad that Seek shouted you out, you always bring quality content on stuff I'd actually like to watch and wouldn't have found your channel otherwise. Great mic quality as well! Keep up the good work!

I find it funny how he uploads this right before the Mig29SMT is revealed with R-73 and 27ET saying it might be a while before they get added to fighters/come to the game but just unlucky timing tbh, nice vid as always Jaek 👍

Really good and informative stuff. Looking forward to your future videos as I learn a lot from these

As of Mid November 2023, the R-13M & R-13M1 DID get radar slaving. just a little update.

The technical reason the R-27 ended up with worse kinematics than the R-24 is actually really interesting. When drafted, the R-27 was supposed to be the world’s first truly universal missile, capable of fulfilling any function in a wide range of scenarios. One primary requirement to fulfill this was that the missile be fully modular; instead of any single missile, you would have modular missile sections, which could be roughly simplified as a single guidance section and swappable engine and seeker sections. By swapping out these pieces, in any combination you liked, you could change which missile it was. All that ever mattered was that both the front and the back were compatible with the middle. This, however, created a problem; the universal section primarily was supposed to be a completely self contained package for supplying power, commands, pylon connection, and aerodynamic control to anything compatible you stick on it, while requiring nothing in return from attached sections. Because of this, and the central mounting of the section, it was necessary to study and adapt a technology found in their copied Sparrow prototype, the R-25; a wing control configuration. By placing the only control surfaces on the power and control section, almost all energy-intensive functions were completely self contained, dramatically reducing the need for some complex and powerful modular power connection system to power control surfaces in the rocket or seeker sections. Wing control, however, has a problem; compared to tail control surfaces, wing control causes significantly higher induced drag for a given movement, all else being equal. This is one of the reason the AIM-7F+ and the R-27 both have markedly long burn times; without a long sustainer, energy washout early in the flight from wing control is a much more serious problem than in tail control. Other problems compound this; by requirement, the R-27 had to be fully comparable in class to the R-24; similar in weight, similar in drag when carried, similar in size, and superior in maneuverability at all altitudes. The last point is especially crucial, as that means it must be able to match or beat a missile derived from a long lineage of high altitude interceptor missiles in a snap up engagement against a maneuvering target. This from a design perspective makes it frankly impossible to lower drag with less fin and wing area, and thus it couldn’t simply lower drag to match or beat the 24’s range. All of these factors combined lead to inferior kinematic performance compared to the R-24 in all respects in spite of being a full generational upgrade. That being said, the other assets of the missile as well as significantly more modern internals do still make it a very worthwhile upgrade ignoring the gamer stats

you are correct on the R-73 statement. the su-27 just got added a month ago with the R-73 same with the f15 and f16c with the AIM-9M

>60m >Resistance above average Meanwhile me after dozens of missiles lost on pure air: oh rly

the high quality content we need. Well done mate

Love the channel, keep it up. The low qual paranoid intro from f4 vid was amazing