Good old time….
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You know, it’s strange. I grew up thinking the F-13 had two guns, but from my last reading, that seems not to be the case. It seems the F did, with two cannon at 60 rounds per gun… which is not… awful. Wikipedia is telling me the F-13 with its single cannon was limited to 30 rounds! Crack shots only, I guess…
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You know, it’s strange. I grew up thinking the F-13 had two gun, but from my last reading, that seems not to be the case. It seems the F did, with two cannon at 60 rounds per gun… which is not… awful. Wikipedia is telling me the F-13 with its single cannon was limited to 30 rounds! Crack shots only, I guess…
You’re right
MiG-21F iz.72 (sans-suffixe) had 2 guns with 60 rnd each
MiG-21F-13 iz.74 had 1 guns with only 30 rnd
And all the next, until MiG-21M iz.96 had no gun at all
In fact, Soviet did the same error than US here, they believed guns were useless and the F-13 was the beginning of the trend. -
Great teamwork gents!
Thank you
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Perhaps the belief that there were 2 guns comes from the fact that the Chinese ultimately reverted to using two cannons on the J-7s. If Wiki is right, the J-7s sent to North Korea would have been armed with only a single gun as well:
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First versions of the Chinese MiG-21F-13, called J-7 sans-suffix and its export version F-7A only have 1 gun, just like the soviet one.
With the next version : J-7I, the 2 guns were back (and will remain in all later ones)
North Korea received MiG-21F-13 iz74 from USSR (around 80), so with only one gun.
Wiki mention China providing late version of J-7I and note [17] url confirm that, like other J-7I, they most probably, have 2 guns. -
IIRC what I have heard, F-13 was the most pleasant Fishbed to fly (including BIS)….real sportplane.
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My info was the “PF” was the best to fly, featuring similar maneuverability than the F-13 but a better engine and more modern layout.
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My info is unavailable.
(Hope this helps)
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lols…;)
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dig out a 2008 pic… old low-poly 3d pit test, vnam style.
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huuuuu, that great old view….!!!
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Very nice work and model T!
We will make sure it will get a nice homebaseGr Falcas
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Nice to see some serious cold-war love. Beautiful!
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Topolo, I wasn’t sure how often you visit past threads… Regarding the MiG-21F13, I’ve noticed two minor issues:
1. The HP on each wing seem to have a differing amount of space between between 0 and 1 compared to 3 and 4 (i.e. distance between HP is wider on one wing that between HP on the other) and are further forward on one wing than the other. Here I do say “seem” because I’m blind in one eye and cannot be absolutely certain, I’m viewing them correctly.
2. It’s difficult to see unless you look very closely, but the nozzle appears to be off-center and slightly protrudes through the outer skin of the fuselage housing surrounding the nozzle’s base:
Not intending as critism, just noticed… : )
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Thanks to report these problems…
Unfortunately, I’m no more able to fix them, I hope someone else in the team can do it… -
Thanks to report these problems…
Unfortunately, I’m no more able to fix them, I hope someone else in the team can do it…OK I’ll do it.