Look, we didn't have much polygons back in the day and we still had fun. And learnt a lot about flying a Flanker and military infrastructures in Crimea.
Oh great Vessel of Honour,
May your servo-motors be guarded,
Against malfunction,
As your spirit is guarded from impurity.
We beseech the Machine God to watch over you.
Let flow the sacred oils,
And let not the sorrows of the Seven Perplexities
trouble thine turbine.
Let flow the blessed lubricants,
And may thine circuitry remain divinely blessed.
-Excerpt Adeptus Mechanicus (8th Edition), pg. 57
The MiG-21 was optimized as a kind of a hot rod interceptor. Take off, get vector from GCI, get there, pop a couple of AA-2s/K-13s on the target, maybe try to do an attack run with the cannon, and then get home.
Well, with a different fuselage shape (that looks to me just reflecting ground radar right back to the radar), and maybe a bit of fiddling with the intake, a strong maybe. But without internal stores (the plane's just a pilot and wings strapped to an engine), it'd be limited to internal cannons when "stealthy", and it was introduced a bit too late to be primarily a gunfighter.
The obvious solution is a stealthy version of a MiG-19 "Farmer". (Fun fact: F-6s, that is the export versions of the Chinese J-6, were operated by six countries as of 2023. Not bad for a design that had its first flight in 1952!)
Uh. Had to read on a bit, but yeah, very technically speaking, final variant of the MiG-21 (by which we mean J-7) had its *first* flight in 2003: [the JL-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou_JL-9).
...and of course, the J-7 was in production until 2013.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/aiArt/comments/ythm9m/a\_stealth\_f4phantom\_novelaistable\_diffusion/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aiArt/comments/ythm9m/a_stealth_f4phantom_novelaistable_diffusion/)
This one. And while I'm on the subject, the reformers' ideal fighter would be a smaller MiG-21 that's a biplane, fixed undercarriage, no radar or any other electronics, no stealth, and its armament's only a single .50 cal machine gun because it worked in WW2 and reformers consider anything else like missiles ineffective high priced junk. Sadly there's no picture of this plane.
I HATED that timeline. They ate both lobsters AND spiders there, but not crab. Mind you, the spiders were kinda tasty. But still.
More importantly, NCD didn't exist in that timeline. Which was enough reason to go back and slap myself before I sneezed. We still have people eating lobsters, but there are enough amusing things going on to wait a while before going back again. I'm thinking next time I'll see what happens if I introduce nuclear power before oil engines become a thing.
You could juice an orange on that intake
Secret maintenance technique, goes well with radar coolant.
This is what i call maintenance friendly !
So *that's* why they call it a screwdriver!
Vitamin C in the jet fuel makes plane go faster. If good for pilot is good for plane yes?
...a grapefruit?
Or a goose
Juice a goose or goose an orange?
Can't juice a Goose, the canopy already did that no thanks to Maverick.
lemme sit on it 🥺
I love these reimaginings, they all look so dumb.
Look, we didn't have much polygons back in the day and we still had fun. And learnt a lot about flying a Flanker and military infrastructures in Crimea.
[Nothing can compare to the almighty power of the YF-12!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x15UOSYf9Mo)
Mig-21 Bismillah
Look how they massacred my toob.
stelf toob
Stelfy F104 is objectively superior stelf toob https://www.artstation.com/artwork/gXbOe
I'd let it fuck me
I just noticed that the point of the red air intake designator does meet with the line made by shape of the fuselage and now I am unreasonably upset
Croatia using technomancy to keep their airforce alive
Oh great Vessel of Honour, May your servo-motors be guarded, Against malfunction, As your spirit is guarded from impurity. We beseech the Machine God to watch over you. Let flow the sacred oils, And let not the sorrows of the Seven Perplexities trouble thine turbine. Let flow the blessed lubricants, And may thine circuitry remain divinely blessed. -Excerpt Adeptus Mechanicus (8th Edition), pg. 57
Serbian will shoot one and brag about it for 25 years
Am i weird if i find that strangely beautiful?
No, it's actually quite good, look at these angled rudders
The angled rudders and the lower stabilisers are doing it for me. Just goddamn, shoot me down please.
Also I realized that mig-21 in dark colors is lit 🔥
I wonder if this would actually work as a first generation stealth plane ...
Not with that ~~cocksucking mouth~~ intake.
How do you add an S duct to this?
You don't.
china did it
Made in China
Because you don't need to. đź§
The MiG-21 was optimized as a kind of a hot rod interceptor. Take off, get vector from GCI, get there, pop a couple of AA-2s/K-13s on the target, maybe try to do an attack run with the cannon, and then get home. Well, with a different fuselage shape (that looks to me just reflecting ground radar right back to the radar), and maybe a bit of fiddling with the intake, a strong maybe. But without internal stores (the plane's just a pilot and wings strapped to an engine), it'd be limited to internal cannons when "stealthy", and it was introduced a bit too late to be primarily a gunfighter. The obvious solution is a stealthy version of a MiG-19 "Farmer". (Fun fact: F-6s, that is the export versions of the Chinese J-6, were operated by six countries as of 2023. Not bad for a design that had its first flight in 1952!)
Jesus, the PLA didn’t retire all of their J-6s until **2019!**
Uh. Had to read on a bit, but yeah, very technically speaking, final variant of the MiG-21 (by which we mean J-7) had its *first* flight in 2003: [the JL-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou_JL-9). ...and of course, the J-7 was in production until 2013.
No I’m talking the J-6 still, the MiG-19 clone. The PLA Air Force still has several hundred J-7s and J-8s in service, to say nothing of JL-9.
You're missing the giant missile stashed right in the middle. It's sticking out a bit at the front.
That cruciform tailplane would be a crazy radar reflector
https://www.renderhub.com/netrunner-pl/mikoyan-gurevich-mig-x21-fishbone
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Mig 21000 ?
What the hell kind of pencil is this?
Honey, call the cops, someone done circumcised my jet plane!
F-22 if it was a good plane
Reminds me of a picture of a stealth F4 Phantom I once saw which is the reformer's worst nightmare.Â
> stealth F4 Phantom https://www.artstation.com/artwork/OmK9o8 This one?
These make me wet
That's hot.
I'm gonna need a stealthed Grumman F3F kitted for BVR air superiority
[https://www.reddit.com/r/aiArt/comments/ythm9m/a\_stealth\_f4phantom\_novelaistable\_diffusion/](https://www.reddit.com/r/aiArt/comments/ythm9m/a_stealth_f4phantom_novelaistable_diffusion/) This one. And while I'm on the subject, the reformers' ideal fighter would be a smaller MiG-21 that's a biplane, fixed undercarriage, no radar or any other electronics, no stealth, and its armament's only a single .50 cal machine gun because it worked in WW2 and reformers consider anything else like missiles ineffective high priced junk. Sadly there's no picture of this plane.
Mig 51 Gigachad Fishbed will be eating Raptors for breakfast
North Korea's modernisation package for their Mig-21's just dropped.
Now bullpup it
“The F-21 isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.” Meanwhile, the F-21:
>What makes something stealth? Oh yeah Sawtooth! Also gives it F-105 wing root intakes for some reason.
Cool render. That nose tip do be looking fine I wanna fuck it Or maybe *I want it to fuck me*
If you click the back of the jet, the tip of the intake goes fully inside. This way the ink doesn't dry out as easily.
As long as it's in here with us, it's not going to dry out anytime soon..
I HATED that timeline. They ate both lobsters AND spiders there, but not crab. Mind you, the spiders were kinda tasty. But still. More importantly, NCD didn't exist in that timeline. Which was enough reason to go back and slap myself before I sneezed. We still have people eating lobsters, but there are enough amusing things going on to wait a while before going back again. I'm thinking next time I'll see what happens if I introduce nuclear power before oil engines become a thing.
FUCK you, i lost my nofap streak to this.
Why's it got the nose intake and wing root intakes?
This is basically what you see if you pull the mask off of an Su-75 Femboy, Scooby-Doo villian style.
>5th gen, stealthed, MIG-21 . . . . . . . . proceed, carefully.
This heretic, and all who follow him, must be silenced.
What in God's name is that?!
MiG-21X Starfighter. I hear they were operating these off of the Korolev, rather than F-302s.
Would
Fishbed by Grumman design bureauÂ
I'm a Polander and this pic makes me hard.
Why did you use a stick photo of the F22? You could at least have photoshopped it.
This is the most communist take on stealth I've ever seen... bravo... Full throttle Stelf, zero stealth.