MiG 28

[Liquidus Bear]

Does anyone know if we will ever see the MiG 28? (AKA tiger 2) you know....because reasons... >___>

[kazereal]

It's fictional so I don't think so.
DCS aims for high realism and they have been pretty strict about it.

Some modders might make it but nothing more than that.

[Liquidus Bear]

Im talking about the tiger 2 actually, the mig 28 is just a repainted tiger :(

[=AiR FORCE=]

The fictitious MiG-28 in Top Gun is actually an F-5, so DCS technically has it already, as an AI.
But DCS is all about realism, which is the opposite of fiction. :)

[Liquidus Bear]

yes i know, what im posting about is that i want a flyable tiger 2

[Piro]

No, I don't believe there are any plans for a flyable F-5 at the moment.

[Liquidus Bear]

damn

[minivano]

-The fictitious MiG-28 in Top Gun is actually an F-5 =AiR FoRCe=

I'm surprised this was the mythical plane in Topgun movie, you mean it wasn't a real plane ? i always thought this to be an actual exiting aircraft.

[Chameleon_Silk]

Fictional aircraft codenamed MiG-28 (МиГ-28 in Cyrillic script) have appeared in several different unrelated works. These fictional aircraft have been independently created and the aircraft share nothing but a name, although it has also often even been given the NATO reporting name Finback. In reality this codename has now been assigned to the Shenyang J-8, a Chinese interceptor-fighter.

The first instance of a "MiG-28" was in the 1978 Quiller novel The Sinkiang Executive written by Adam Hall. Referred to in the work as the MiG-28D (NATO code "Finback"), it was an aircraft that resembled a somewhat modified MiG-25, but with sharper air intakes and swept wings.

In the 1986 film Top Gun, Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) squared off against MiG-28s with no NATO reporting name and of unspecified nationality. These were nothing more than American Northrop F-5s, which at the time were being used as aggressor aircraft for dissimilar air combat training at the real TOPGUN seminar (now known as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School). The F-5s "acting" as MiG-28s were painted flat black and their markings was a red star to indicate their origin from the Soviet Bloc, and retained those paint jobs after production closed.[6] The paint also increased the aircraft's visibility, a plus for filmmaking. The nation flying these MiG-28s is not specified whatsoever in the film. Audio commentary on the film's Special-Edition DVD release states that they were originally intended to be North Korean. In the script, American pilots are warned that the MiG-28 is armed with the Exocet, a French-made anti-ship missile not found in the inventory of Soviet forces. In video games licensed from the films, the enemy planes are replaced with real Soviet aircraft, the MiG-29 "Fulcrum".

Another MiG-28 is "seen" in the 1988 ABC television series Supercarrier. This MiG-28 was a fictional Soviet stealth fighter. An F-16 fighter in Soviet-style markings was used to "simulate" the Soviet fighter.

quoted from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_military_aircraft

[Hadji]

Mikojan-Gurevitj always use odd numbers for their fighter plane model numbers and I don't understand why the producers of Top Gun went for a fictional opponent.

[Liquidus Bear]

They couldnt acquire real migs for the film so they made their own.

[minivano]

Yeah, i guess at the time this was considered to be beyond the iron curtain after all.