Farlander Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) The big improvements in production MiG-15Bis vs MiG-15 were: - New VK-1/RD-45F engine (slight difference in form factor so minor adjustments to fuselage. RD-45 was the initial copy of the Rolls-Royce Nene, and was devloped into the RD-45F that was further delvloped into the VK-1) - Hydraulically-assisted ailerons. Further improvements to some of the MiG-15Bis in production. - NS-23 cannon was replaced after a while with NP-23 cannons firing alot faster. (NS-23 - 550 rpm, 690 m/s. NR-23 - 800-850 rpm, 690 m/s) - Cockpit with improvements to viewing. - Cockpit pressurizaton bleed for Gee suit. - Sirena-2 (RWR). - Better dive breaks. - More cockpit armor. - A engine self-starting system. - And a some were built with Anti-skid and braking-chute. But heres some interesting Modifications and variants they tested: MiG-15UTI - Trainer. MiG-15BisP - Five MiG-15's built with the Toriy radar. - Radar was too difficult to use and it proved itself very unreliable. MiG-15Bis All weather - 2 MiG-15Bis aircrafte were fitted with OSP-48, ARK-5, MRP-48, RV-2 (Low altitude radar altimeter) - Some were produced and 16 MiG-15Bis's were modified and used successfully in combat. MiG-15Bis RP-1 Izumrud Modification. - Used the RP-1 Izumrud radar instead that was less complicated than the Toriy (The RP-1 Izumrud was basically a radar gunsight) - It consisted of two radars. A search radar, and a tracking radar. - Armament was reduced to 23mm cannons. MiG-15BisS - Escort fighter with extra fuel (modified wings to hold 600L instead of the 400L tanks). And extra oxygen for the pilot. - doubled the endurance. - 49 Built in 1951. MiG-15BisR - Reconnissance aircraft. - Replaced one of the 23mm cannons with a camera. - 600L fuel tanks. - 364 Built. MiG-15Bis modified with SRD-3 Grad. - Copy of F-86's AN/APG-30. - Only one aircraft built as it showed itself to be inferior to the Izumrud. izdeliye SU - MiG-15 modified with a pivoting Shpitalny Sh-3 23 millimeter cannon. - Could pivot 11 degrees up, and 7 degrees down. - Were aimed with a sight that had automatic target tracking. - Testing was done in 1951 and had potential, but did not go into production. MiG-15bis-ISh - Ground attack aircraft. - 12 built, but was ended because of another ground attack aircraft was being built. Burlaki - Tu-4 towing project - MiG-15Bis fighters would be towed after the Tu-4 bomber with engines off to provide escort on long missions. - worked, but was dropped because the pilot would freeze and it was hard to find the bomber and link up again Air-refueling - In 1953 some MiG-15Bis's were modified to be refueled by the Tu-4 with Hose-and-drogue. This proved to Be a better solution than the burlaki. Ejection seats - Some MiG-15UTI Trainers were modified with an ejection seat. - One test involved using the canopy to clamp down over seat to protect the pilot. This method was used on early production MiG-21 fighters. MiG-15M/Msh -Target drones. Czech MiG-15's - PPZ-1 Blind landing system. - some were made into target tugs. - Converted to use RATO. - One was converted to carry the K-13 missile. - Runway De-icer :lol: Polish MiG-15's (LIM-1/LIM2) - Some converted to trainers. SBLIM-1/SBLIM-2. - Outraged by the gloriousness of what the czech did, they made some into a railway de-icer. :megalol: Chinese MiG-15's - Surprisingly the Chinese did not build any MiG-15 fighters themself, they only made the JJ-2 (MiG-15UTI). If you see something wrong, tell me and i will fix it :) Edited January 18, 2015 by Farlander All weather capable MiG-15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlander Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Information on the MiG-15Bis variant we are getting in game can now be seen on the DCS store. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/mig15bis/ Looking glorious Belsimtek! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basco1 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Beautiful,however still no date of release given,just 'will be available February 2015'. Chillblast Fusion Cirrus 2 FS Pc/Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake CPU/Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1070 G1 8GB/Seagate 2TB FireCuda SSHD/16GB DDR4 2133MHz Memory/Asus STRIX Z270F Gaming Motherboard/Corsair Hydro Series H80i GT Liquid Cooler/TM Warthog with MFG 10cm Extension/WINWING Orion Rudder Pedals (With Damper Edition)/TrackiR5/Windows 11 Home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlander Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) Beautiful,however still no date of release given,just 'will be available February 2015'. yes, but i can feel it in the air that release is "imminent™" Farlander does not take responsability for any jokes about release dates. Use at own risk. :music_whistling: Edited January 21, 2015 by Farlander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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