“At 10.3, you’re gonna have a really tough time trying to find a flareless target”. I present to you, the entire Japanese air tree, excluding 3 planes. Rip F-1, T-2, and F-104J.

Radar guided missies at 8.7 are just criminal , I always see mig 21s slamming people from far distances with these bad boys in the beginning of the match

"At 10.3, it's hard to find people who don't have flares" Proceeds to get most of his kills on people who don't have flares

The MiG-21S with R-3R is incredibly lethal, as it's at a low enough BR because of the lack of 30g missiles, but retains the 10.3 MF engine. Keep up the good work 🫡

I swear, whenever I play with my F-4C these missiles are really terrifying when you're wondering why the hell is a Mig-21 locking you in the first place.

As an F8-U enjoyer I have learned to respect the SMT up high.

R-3Rs are goated

dude the angles and camera work in your videos is just awespme, i don't think there's someone else in wt community that does this kind of stuff nearly as good as you do

Writing as a MiG-21 pilot from DCS, your lauding of the R3-R is more than just. The strengths of the missile also appear there as well, and are especially evidenced on Enigma's Cold War server. I can confirm BLUFOR pilots never anticipate radar guidance and always jink and pop flares. Occasionally they will fly head on into the missile, mostly Viggens. It's great to see the missile exhibiting similar performance across two game engines.

This is the first video I have seen of yours and I am impressed. Nicely condensed, quality audio & recordings and a great edit. I especially enjoyed the clips at 1:59 subscribed.

3:11 This is just my opinion, but I think the F-4C is fun to fly. It's really bad but it's so bad it loops around and becomes fun again.

Wow this is very well recorded and edited. Great work!

What an excellent video mate, you just gained a new subscriber!

A lot of good info and story telling. Keep it up!

I honestly love these kind of videos, informational and captivating.

fantastic editing, subscribed

such a high quality video! you sir are underrated!

This video alone made me interested in finally using my MiG-21MF many years after buying it. Amazing stuff. I might even consider getting MiG-21S just for this.

Your so underated you make such high quality videos and is unique love the vids keep it up

That R3R tale for WT makes me think of something "similar" a few BR below : The G.91 R/4 Nord AA missiles Nobody at 8.7 expects a front-facing missile, so you just have to lure someone into a face-to-face and throw a surprise gift! Just do a custom loadout with 2 AA Nords, 2 Sidewinders, and a .50 gun full of tracers and there you go!

Great video as always!

You know, I'm fully aware of these things carrying R-3R before getting the Crusader so when I got it, I ALWAYS arm it with Chaff & Flares(flares priority since SARH doesn't appear too often in those BRs).

My man you are gonna get far with this quality

This missile just reminds me of a scaled down version of the R-24R, supershot burn time but great energy retention.

Idk if this is still the case due to BR changes. Most matches I used this missile, I tried to pick on targets I knew didn't have RWR. Basically makes this thing a silent killer if you are far enough away. This usually involves climbing and looking out for other radar missile carrying planes though

Suggestion: The J-21/A-21 series. Most air RB players at 4.3 aren't the brightest(P-47 players) and will full-commit to head-ons at which point you can greet them with your mini 20mm cannons.

Very unique video! Keep it up and you'll be flying with Phly one day bro!

Most high-quality and under-rated youtuber possibly ever?

I used the R-3R as an all-aspect on my SMT, finally someone made a video on this.

The later model P-47s were indeed used for turnfighting in real life, so the example with the P-47 is not exactly appropriate. Because of the insane thrust of the late war R-2800 the P-47Ds could actualy win prolonged turnfights against BF109s even at low altitute. There are videos about people doing it in DCS aswell. The 109 just doesn't have the thrust to stay at a good manovering speed for prolonged periods.

love the cinematography

remember that the MiG-21's radar, the Sapphire-21 operates in band J, a lot of early RWRs can only detect up to band I, meaning they won't get any radar launch warnings (or any warning at all) if you launch an R-3R at them.

great vid for watching in front of my grandparents that are fliers thanks for the amazing vid!

Well made vids 👌👌

3:08 when I saw you mention my beloved I had to step in, It's pretty easy to evade missiles in this thing the F-4C can carry rocket pods which I find effective against R-60's while burning still or even in a head on with the SU-25's R-60M's and while it only gets AIM-9E's and AIM-7D's I find that I can do quite well with the AIM-7D's launching at 10km up high is something nobody expects at 10.0 and the majority of my team are just prems so getting 5+ kill games are pretty easy especially with those 3 juicy GAU-4's

The R-3R is the ideal missile for the complicated and very smart actually tactic of "think fast chucklenuts"

the editing in this entire video is fucking SUPERB

I bought the mig-21S a year ago on the new year sale and have over 400 battles in it. I very quickly learned that the R-3R was a great missile to use at that BR and found a lot of success with it. I don't use it as much anymore (because I like shooting R-24R's in my MLD), but the R-3R and Mig-21S is a great combo to have learned using radar missiles.

I've been waiting for a video on the R-3R, I always carry atleast 1 on my SMT

Pretty solid video. Kind of stuff only a genius would think of. Gives me new ideas.

I can confirm, the R-3R gets me most of my kills when in high alt. I love the Mig-21S (r-13 100)

The r3rs are great but the 9cs blow them out the water

Great video!!

"At 10.3 you're gonna have a really tough time trying to find a flareless target". I present to you, the entire British tech tree except top tier.

The irony of youtube recommending this to me just a couple days after I died to an R3R in a headon, going nuts bc I thought there were all aspects at 9.3, is insane.

I just unlocked the MiG 21SMT the other day and randomly remembered this video. I’ve been pretty successful killing the grinders at 10.3 thanks a lot for this video

Yep 100% agree R-3r is actually really good especially the premium mig 21 on Soviet tech tree at that low br. And would recommend Making your radar lock on key bind with an extra mouse button let’s you spam it so if they do have chaff you sometimes can re acquire them.

Hahaha yes! I literally just saw this after getting off the SPSK; such an underrated missile, you can also use them to conduct psychological warfare, having 3 missiles when the SPSK usually carries 2

A fellow R-3R player, you have my subscription sir

I love the R-3R in DCS. In a cold war server, Viggens love to go head on and blow right past you. They never expect your R-3R, and when you do hit them head on it’s great.

Even better are the AIM-7Cs on the F3H. They are realy difficult to learn at first because if you launch them too early they won't have the range and if you launch them too late they won't track because they don't track off the rail, but if you launch them at just the right distance they are amazing. They pull 15Gs so it's realy difficult to dodge them, they are CW missiles, meaning they can ignore chaff for 2 up to 2 seconds after the enemy deployed it as long as you stay locked to the chaff cloud and they have more range then any other missile around that BR.

I remember when radars missiles were released and i loved the r3r.

a big thing with soviet interceptors, namely the later MiG-25 was to equip them with both IR and radar missiles, so that even if the enemy used one tactic that countered one missile, it wouldn't work against the other.

that is a very good video!

I do the same thing with the AIM-9C in the F-8E Crusader. Get high, get fast, lob a missile at a high and fast target and hope they don't have chaff. In an up tier it doesn't work at all because everything except the Draken, the Mitsubishi F1 and the F-104J, have CM and they usually take some chaff. But in a down tier, it's great against Harriers and the occasional Su-25 or A-10A.

I love cruising around in the F-8E with 9Cs, by the time people realise you aren't sending an IR missile at you it's too late. I'll have to give it a go with the MiG-21 too.

I knew from the title this was about the R3R lol love that thing

I enjoy how I clicked on this vid to learn how to use it and get simple key binds but instead it’s just a video on what everyone already knows radar missile go brrrrrrrrr

I love using the r3rs they are so versatile and super fun to use because it's a challenge

Can confirm, working as intended

Another benefit of the r3r is the fact that it is on alower band then most rwr at 10.3 and below so theydont even get a heads up that theyve been locked

1:55 *I love how the pilot is looking at me like that randomly for no reason...*

if this still works you sir, just earned a sub :)

In DCS cold war servers, the R-3R is such a menace, no one expects an all aspect missile from a MiG-21 when everyone is running AIM-9B variants.

I love the r3r, at that BR its amazing at mid-high altitude.

Love the R-3R on the MIG-21S, high alt F-104 go bye bye

Have you considered making a video about the 8.3 vautour with radar missiles ?

I love this missle so much

I was actually thinking about that because the r60 is so easily flareable and the r3r could be a good replacement. Can't wait to get the smt so I can try that! I have the sps-k

Top tier before the pulse doppler radars trained me to always carry flare, chaff mix. I still do regardless of br because it's so ingrained in me from the sparrow and soviet equivalent spam days. Since pulse doppler radar, I have started notching quite often too, often while using chaff flare mix.

I love watching these videos despite knowing that I 100% have no interest in the WT aviation. Just feels satisfying to watch something you don't understand for some reason

All the R variants of the soviet missiles also have a lower drag coefficient due to the pointy radar head compared to the flat IR seaker head of the T variants

I find the bigger issue with R3Rs is they work at high altitude in a MM where nobody climbs, I’ll usually only find one target that can get slammed by an R3R before having to drop altitude and brawl on the deck where the R3R is pretty much useless

I have just unlocked the MiG-21MF and immediately started slinging R-3Ss around, but I may have to give the R-3R a shot now.

I usually fly with 3 r60s and 1 r3r, there’s always that one climber up in the air.

That is exactly the reason why use the M7 Charley on the F3H demon

5:36 the F3H also gets early sparrows and they’re still really bad (mostly because of the short range and the time before the missile starts tracking)

God i love the R3R, it's allways stupidly underestimated and that's it's beuty >:)))

This reminds me of the vautour 2N, with what seems to be a lackluster missile, but at 8.3, almost no one expects a radar missile to hit them from 8km out.

So, this is possibly my favourite missile of the starting missiles. I use a 3xR3R and 1x S5K pod loadout on the MiG-21S R-300, because you can use it as you do here (in a headon) or be a bit of a troll and use that incredibly wide lock circle to lead the missile to hit aircraft that are sure they're safe, and use the S5s as ghetto flares. I have a well over 2 average KD in air battles doing that.

Reminds me when I play the A4E and a mig missile me on top of my turn. I flared but the missile still go on

Funny that you talk about but about a year or 2 ago i used r3 r on the premium mig 21 S to grind out the soviet air tech tree and i will say i was surprised At actually how effective they were. Sadly the mig 21 S doesn’t have countermeasures making it damn near impossible to dodge aim 9L.

Very cool video 🙂

I ground out the USSR lines I didnt go for using the Mig 21S with the R3R. Carrying 4 of them was great

Amazing video,brings up alot of great points. What sound pack do you use if not custom? it sounds amazing and id love to use it

The 9.7 soviet premium fishbed gets these and at those BRs almost nobody thinks your shooting radar missiles. The majority of my kills in it come from the R3R. Easily one of my favourite missiles in the game, oh and it also slaps even harder in Sim

I always play that in the beginning of the game 15 seconds into the game 3 of enemy team is down ...

“At 10.3, you’re gonna have a really tough time trying to find a flareless target” ; More importantly, most of those targets will be obliterated by 9Ls at 10.0 when facing US teams. 9Ls get me more often in the forgotten Mirage IIIC than anything else purely because of the lack of countermeasures and the fact that 2/3 of the American premiums at the tier get loadouts with four 9Ls.

see shit like this is why my paranoid ass ALWAYS takes mixed flairs. ALWAYS

I learned to respect the R-3R while flying the F-4C. What really makes it dangerous is also that the Fishbed is fast as hell at altitude, giving a solid speed bonus. You might think the F-4C is the better BVR plane flying high and fast, but I dare say its radar and missiles are not as reliable as the Mig-21 with R-3Rs. The Mig just needs to get closer before firing. It's a nasty surprise in a head-on.

0:20 *Smigol turnfighting in a Shackleton..*

Seeing the Mig-21s radar have no problem looking down at the ground is painful after playing F-4C

yo man that saber slaps tho

I use a lot the Mig 21S, is good in realistic, but tbh it fights at 8.7 in AB, so it is pretty broken with how radars are buffed in arcade (less ground blur in radar)

Ive seen this used very often but if you have enough energy you can dodge it relatively easily since well its an r3

Tbf one issue with the r3r is that it only pulls 10 g I've dodged them before in f30 sabres and ki 200s kinetically without any sort of counter measures even at about 4000m. Its a funny missile sometimes I'll grant you that but it really can be frustrating to use sometimes

The American Psychological warfare missile is AGM-65 on F-5E as an All Aspect Missile

Struggling hard with this missile, takes forever to lock and then once it does the second someone flares it just spasm out.

this is why i always bring mixed. even if 90% of the missiles i come across are IR.

very qualitative video