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    Post  Admin Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:57 pm

    MOSCOW July 31: The Russian Defense Ministry is considering the possibility of purchasing MiG-35 multi-purpose jet fighters that will be used to equip at least two aviation squadrons.

    “The Russian Air Force plans to have at least 24 MiG-35 state-of- the-art multifunction jet fighters before 2015. The Defense Ministry is currently studying the possibility of concluding a contract to purchase such airplanes,” the Russian ministry’s source in charge of arms purchases told Interfax-AVN on Friday.

    A MiG-35 deal could be signed this year, the source said, adding that the purchase of such airplanes is envisioned in the country’s long- term weapons procurement program.

    United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) President Alexei Fyodorov earlier announced plans to deliver several MiG-35 jet fighters to the Defense Ministry.

    “We continue negotiations with the Defense Ministry regarding the details of such an agreement. Twenty to 30 MiG-35 planes could be sold to the Defense Ministry,” Fyodorov said….The airplane’s unique component is the newest Zhuk-AE active phased array aircraft radar, which allows such planes to track down up to 30 targets simultaneously and to attack six of them that pose the greatest threat simultaneously.

    The MiG-35 jet fighter has a service life of 40 years, or 6,000 flight hours. The maintenance of one such airplane costs nearly half of that of MiG-29 planes.

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    Post  Vladislav Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:30 am

    Awesome! So we have 48 Su-35BMs, 24 MiG-35s and we are getting 36 MiG-29SMT. Over one hundred modern fighters promised in the next five years. That ought to tide us over until PAKFA comes into production.
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    Purchase of MiG-35 significantly increases chances for victory in the Indian MRCA tender
    05.08.2009

    Moscow. 3 August. Interfax-AVN - Russian Defense Decision to buy the new multi-party MiG-35 is an additional advantage of this aircraft in the Indian tender, say in the military-industrial complex (OPK), the Russian Federation.

    "The chances of the MiG-35 to victory in the Indian fighter tender already assessed as high. Today, when it became known that the shipment of aircraft purchased by the Ministry of Defense of Russia, they became even more", - told Interfax-AVN "a source in one of structures involved in arms exports.

    Sobesednik agency noted that the heat of competition in the bidding very high. He has further intensified after the United States signed an agreement with India in defense and arms trade.

    "The goal is that by the end of the year in India will be demonstration flights, including the military use before the tender for the aircraft. In order to participate in these flights of Russian aircraft corporation" MiG "is now preparing two fighter aircraft MiG-35", - said the agency interlocutor .

    He recalled that at the last air show in Bangalore fighter MiG-35 flight tested in a well-known Indian air force pilot retired Marshal Harish Masand. After landing, he said that the MiG-35 is an exceptional handling and maneuverability, which provide the best aerodynamic concept elektrodistantsionnaya and new digital control system aircraft.

    The official tender for the purchase of 126 fighter aircraft of Indian Air Force was announced in August 2007. Under the terms of the tender, which have been approved by the Ministry of Defense of India, the winner will supply the Indian Air Force 18 fighters gathered for their enterprises, the rest should be made directly to the license in India in the corporation HAL.

    Conditions of the tender is not excluded that in future India may order another order of 60-65 aircraft. Calendar lifetime supplied fighters to be about 40 years.

    The total amount of the transaction, according to Indian sources, would be 420 billion rupees (more than $ 10 billion).

    In addition to the Russian MiG-35 taking part in the tender French fighter Rafale (Dassault Aviation), Swedish Gripen (SAAB), the American F/A-18 (Boeing) and F-16 (Lockheed Martin), as well as the European Eurofighter Typhoon (group EADS) .

    As reported, before the end of the year may be awarded the contract for the purchase of Russian military aircraft at least 24 multi-purpose fighter aircraft MiG-35. The purchase of these aircraft provides long-term weapons program until 2015.

    Mikoyan MiG-35 is designed to win victories in air combat and effective application of precision weapons strikes against ground and surface targets, not entering into a zone of air defenses. This machine is a fighter generation "4 + +".

    The cockpit is equipped with a pilot system and the LCD display on the windscreen. It is completely adapted to work at night, including work with the pilot's night vision goggles. Unique components of the MiG-35 is an airborne radar "Zhuk-AE" with an active phased array (AFAR). Accompany the station allows up to 30 targets and simultaneously attack and six of them, representing the greatest danger.

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    Post  tunguska Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:37 am

    Hey it´s me again but in this forum now!! haha. Can you tell me how good the mig-35 is? is it better than the u.s f-22 raptor? I sure hope so, and how many airplanes are there in a squadron? i want to know all about russian army, air force, naval forces. Oh and yes in your opinion guys which is better, the sukhoi or the mig companies?... anyway waiting for your opinions anxiously, take care, and Russia is best!!
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    Post  Admin Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:54 am

    tunguska wrote:Hey it´s me again but in this forum now!! haha. Can you tell me how good the mig-35 is? is it better than the u.s f-22 raptor?

    Nothing is better than the F-22.

    I sure hope so, and how many airplanes are there in a squadron?

    We don't have squadrons, we have regiments which are 24-30 aircraft

    i want to know all about russian army, air force, naval forces. Oh and yes in your opinion guys which is better, the sukhoi or the mig companies?... anyway waiting for your opinions anxiously, take care, and Russia is best!

    Sukhoi is far and away the better of the two.
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    Thirty percent of Russia's MiG-29 was struck by corrosion tail
    20/08/2009

    Corrosion tail Commission found the Air Forces of Russia in 80 percent of MiG-29, standing on the arms. This, as reported by Interfax, said Aug. 19 Acting zamglavkoma Air Force armament, Major-General Oleg Barmin.

    According to the general, in this regard in 2009 is planned to carry out repairs keels at 106 MiG-29 Air Force of Russia. Some machines, as noted Barmin, the military intend to continue to operate "with the periodic monitoring." All of Russia's Air Force is about three hundred MiG-29.

    Checking the aircraft began after the December 5, 2008 five kilometers from the airport "Domna" in the Chita region of Trans-Baikal region crashed MiG-29, which killed the pilot. Earlier in October the same year near Chita similar plane crashed, the pilot who survived. Other victims and the devastation was averted because the car fell into a swampy area about 40 kilometers from the city. According to military, two incidents occurred due to technical reasons.

    In mid-March 2009 Head of Press Service of Russia Air Force Lt. Col. Vladimir Drik said that about 90 MiG-29 fighters rejected during inspections fleet of aircraft. At that time, was examined about two hundred aircraft. Of these, more than a hundred were allowed to fly, and about ninety excluded.

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    Post  Viktor Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:16 am

    They should phase out those 60% and modernize other 40% to SMT standard .... nothing else seems logical
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    Post  Vladislav Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:37 am

    Viktor wrote:They should phase out those 60% and modernize other 40% to SMT standard .... nothing else seems logical

    Basically, that is what we are doing, just not as fast as we would like. The purchase of Algeria's returned fighters have helped speed up that process.
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    Post  Viktor Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:16 pm

    Vladislav wrote:
    Basically, that is what we are doing, just not as fast as we would like. The purchase of Algeria's returned fighters have helped speed up that process.

    Well I hope MIG-35 will be bought by 2015 and will enter RUAF .. it is really great aircraft.
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    Post  Austin Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:52 pm

    Mig-29K/Mig-35 ( AndyB/BRF )

    http://www.4shared.com/document/LUapjQvD/MiG-35.html
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    Post  Viktor Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:28 pm

    Tnx man. Excellent read.

    Did not know for instance that version of PAK-FA AESA radar will find its way in MIG-35.
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    Post  Austin Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:34 am

    Indeed I will be very disappointed if RuAF did not purchase the Mig-35 in 100 and Mig-29K in equal numbers , both aircraft are quite capable and should not just depend on export market for success.

    The rumors with Indian MMRCA and carried by some news paper is even if Mig-35 looses the MMRCA race the Indian Government will purchase 60 odd Mig-35 outside the MMRCA.
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    Post  nightcrawler Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:00 am

    We have F16 to counter MiG29
    We have JF17 to counter pathetic HAL Tejas & other Indian older MiGs
    ~2011 We will have J10 to counter Su30s( this will giv us tough time I admit it)
    MiG35 hmmmmmmmmmm... we will think latter if India buy lots of those

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    Post  GarryB Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:06 am

    Regarding US purchases... we still have our Skyhawks... the US wont let us sell them to a private company in the US made up of former US military personnel that want to set up a training force to be a civilian contractor for the USAF.

    Apparently our A4K skyhawks to too sophisticated for civilian use!!!!!!!!!
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    Post  ahmedfire Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:26 pm

    i know that Pak fa and su35 is the russian aircrafts that will have AESA radars on it's board..

    did russia intend to put an AESA radar on mig 29(any wersion) board ???
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    Post  Hoof Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:18 am

    ahmedfire wrote:i know that Pak fa and su35 is the russian aircrafts that will have AESA radars on it's board..

    did russia intend to put an AESA radar on mig 29(any wersion) board ???

    Russia has been neglecting mig-29s for like 20 years.. now lots of them have major problems... even corrosion issues... I dont think they are going to upgrade mig-29s anymore, there is a lot more money allocated to su-27s and stuff...
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    Post  GarryB Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:45 am

    The AESA for the Mig-35 was the first publicly revealed Russian fighter AESA AFAIK.

    They certainly do seem to be neglecting the Mig, which has mostly been attributed to the high profile of Mig during the communist years... a bit like a company being popular under Stalin suddenly becoming unpopular under the next regime simply because it was so popular under the previous leadership.

    The Mig-29 itself can be readily upgraded to a standard that results in a useful enough fighter/bomber that is relatively cheap to operate.

    With the SMT upgrade its range and weapons options are comparable to western equivelents.

    Like the T-72 is has a comparatively negative image in the west because the western powers were able to train against East German Mig-29s and they found all its strengths and weaknesses.
    This is the period when the West changed from their dogfight doctrine to their focus on BVR with AMRAAMs because in close combat an aware Mig-29 is deadly.
    To date however most Mig-29s engaged by the west have been dumbed down monkey model A and B models (A being export to communist countries like East Germany and B being export to other countries dumbed down to almost Mig-23 level systems... in fact the IRST on the last model Mig-23ML was actually better than the IRST fitted to the B model Mig-29s).

    A product improved Mig-29 that is properly maintained and operated by a competent air force would hold quite a few shocks for the unsuspecting enemy.

    All the reports of aircraft numbers released and new purchases and upgrades don't mention Mig-29s, which in my opinion is a shame. Numbers are going to be a problem unless production really steps up so upgrading a few hundred Mig-29s would be a good thing for the Russian AF... not every sector requires T-50s... and more importantly putting T-50s in every sector will only further spur development and spending to counter it.
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    Post  Hoof Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:25 am

    GarryB wrote:
    A product improved Mig-29 that is properly maintained and operated by a competent air force would hold quite a few shocks for the unsuspecting enemy.

    All the reports of aircraft numbers released and new purchases and upgrades don't mention Mig-29s, which in my opinion is a shame. Numbers are going to be a problem unless production really steps up so upgrading a few hundred Mig-29s would be a good thing for the Russian AF... not every sector requires T-50s... and more importantly putting T-50s in every sector will only further spur development and spending to counter it.

    I'm not sayings mig-29s are bad... but they have been neglected compared to Su-27 type fighters...I think migs would be easier to maintain and somewhat more flexible compared to Sukhoi's, not to mention they are cheaper...

    Same thing goes one in afghanistan with USAF... they dont use F22s... and i dont think they use F15s... instead they use F16s... because they are better suited for that place and easy to maintain...
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    Post  GarryB Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:48 am

    Unfortunately all Russian aircraft were neglected, but early pre end of cold war Soviet aircraft were designed to operate with little maintainence requirements for the expected period of a war.

    Parts had a fixed life and were replaced without inspection and for safety those lifespans were conservative so the aircraft were fairly simple but expensive to maintain.

    The SMT introduced onboard checking systems and introduced inspections of certain parts so that parts were replaced when they needed replacing rather than when the chart said they needed it.
    Onboard diagnostic hardware and software further improved things and it has been stated that a Mig-29SMT is 40% cheaper to maintain and operate than an earlier model Mig-29.

    The main problem of course is that the Mig-29SMT is a multi role fighter bomber whereas the Mig-29 in Russian service is a point defence interceptor so most of the things added are not considered necessary.

    It is ironic that for a very long period the only Russian aircraft able to use the R-77 was the Mig-29S which actually made it on paper more capable than any in service Flankers through the 1990s.

    The fact that they didn't buy R-77 missiles because they were designed and made in the Ukraine negated that advantage. (Well the R-77 seekers of the time were made in the Ukraine at Artem... now they are made at AGAT.)
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    Post  nightcrawler Sun Jan 09, 2011 8:36 am

    In the recent defence purchases no one is planning to buy MiG-29; rather they prefer SU-27 & maybe 30s (~look at Malaysia/ Venezuela)....
    The best for Russians to do is to export MiG-29 engines which are extremely good for our JF-17 & engines are the only things we aren't good at. Suspect
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    Post  Viktor Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:57 pm

    Well India bought 45 MIG-29K, Burma bought 20 Mig-29M so something is happening althrow not on the Su-30 scale.

    Russian Navy is expected to buy 20+ Mig-29K, and Yemen and Sri Lanka is considering MIG-29M/35 too.

    Besides engines fo J-17 Russia also got modernization of India MIG-29 fleet worth 1 bin and is competing on its MRCA with MIG-35.

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    Post  GarryB Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:52 am

    The only problem with the Mig-29 series is that the Su-27 is very similar but in many ways larger and able to carry more slightly further for a slightly higher cost.

    The Su-27 is the big brother that is often being sold for the same purchase price as the Mig-29.

    Being the underdog to Sukhoi for the last 20 years Mig has worked much harder on making their aircraft multirole and cheaper to operate, but because they only have prototypes while the competition has aircraft being made in Russia, China and India it becomes harder and harder to get your products taken seriously.

    Personally I think the Russian government should keep ordering Migs just to keep Sukhoi on their toes... there are lots of places the Russians will want to base aircraft where they don't want to start an arms race and basing Mig-29s near Finland or Georgia will stir up less trouble than basing Flankers with enormous flight ranges.
    The Mig-29 will do every bit as good a job as a Flanker with the right weapons and regular upgrades and updates that western aircraft get and Soviet aircraft used to get.
    As was found at Top Gun exercises sometimes a smaller fighter is a more tricky opponent in dogfighting combat simply because of the smaller visual signature.
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    No one from Russia, it seems, can give a convincing answer to this very simple question. Earlier last February during the Aero India 2009 exhibition, Mikhail Pogosyan, who presently wears two hats—Director-General of RAC-MiG and Director-General of Sukhoi Corp—had made two interesting revelations: one, that the MiG-35’s single-seat and tandem-seat variants will be rolled from the Nizhny Novgorod-based Sokol Aircraft Plant by August this year; and two, there would be maximum mission systems commonality, inclusive of the AESA radar, between the MiG-35 and the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) that will be co-developed by India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and Russia’s United Aircraft Corp (UAC). Both these revelations have since been contradicted with the passage of time. The Indian Air Force (IAF) had expected the roll-out of the single-seat and tandem-seat versions of the MiG-35 latest by mid-October and be made available for a week-long phase of flight evaluations within India later this year, followed by a second round of evaluations (involving test-firings of precision-guided munitions) in Russia within the first quarter of next year. And as for systems commonality, especially pertaining to the AESA radar, it became evident last August that it will be the Zhuk-AE from Phazotron JSC that will go on board the MiG-35, while the FGFA will be equipped with a variant of the MIRES Sh-121 AESA-based multi-mode radar, which is now being developed by Tikhomirov NIIP. The Zhuk-AE AESA which has repeatedly been shown on board the MiG-29M2 No154 M-MRCA (built in 1990) since 2007 is now officially described as being a functional technology demonstrator containing 600 transmit/receive modules, while the definitive series-production variant of the Zhuk-AE will have 1,000 T/R modules. And the MiG-29M2 No154, which has deceptively been painted as the MiG-35 and been used in the past for giving joyrides to some India-based broadcast media journalists and a few IAF pilots, is now being described by RAC-MiG as just a ‘proof-of-concept’ demonstrator!

    It has now emerged that RAC-MiG had built two prototypes of the shipborne MiG-29 as part of the contract to supply 12 MiG-29Ks and four MiG-29KUBs to the Indian Navy. These two prototypes—a tandem-seat MiG-29KUB No947 and a single-seat MiG-29K No941—made their maiden flights in January and June 2007, respectively. (By the way, these two prototypes were the first brand-new MiG-29s to be built by RAC-MiG after a gap of 15 years!) Following the conclusion of the flight certification and weapons qualification phases, the single-seat MiG-29K No941 was and is still being subjected to a modification programme aimed at deriving the definitive single-seat MiG-35. This perhaps explains why RAC-MiG has publicly displayed (during MAKS 2007 and MAKS 2009) the MiG-29KUB No947, but has never even revealed the existence of the Indian Navy-specific MiG-29K No941 to date. It is now believed that the Russian Air Force, as part of a Kremlin-initiated bailout package for debt-ridden RAC-MiG, will place an order for 24 MiG-35s by 2012, while the Russian Navy will procure 24 MiG-29K/KUBs in 2012 to replace the existing Su-33 shipborne combat aircraft.

    According to RAC-MiG, the definitive MiG-35 will have larger wings to accommodate 10 underwing weapon stations, plus a belly-mounted station to house the Novator-built 3M-14AE Kalibr-A subsonic 290km-range air-to-ground land attack cruise missile. To make the MiG-35 a truly network-centric platform RAC-MiG has already initiated industrial participation negotiations with Israel’s SIBAT, plus avionics OEMs from Italy (Finmeccanica/Elettronica) and France (SAGEM for the Sigma-95 RLG-INS, which is also on board the Su-30MKI).
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    Post  Austin Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:51 pm

    According to Popovkin Mig-35 will be procured as part of 2011-2020 defence plan , so it does have a future.

    Although the chances that it would win in MMRCA is not that bright , its rated as the least to win by many blogs , although I personally think its a cost effective alternative to increase the numbers in IAF and keep the logistics change to the minimal.

    Hopefully it would win some customers beyond RuAF.
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    Post  GarryB Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:01 am

    The model shown at AeroIndia 2011 showed 1.5 ton bombs and Klub air launched cruise missiles... these are things the Gripen cannot carry.

    Plus it had a 5 pylon wing... which is also very new...

    I think a lot of people underestimate the Mig-35.

    I think Indias fleet of Mig-29s would be more flexible with the new 5 pylon wing added at some stage.

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