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Made-for-India MiG-29 test flight next week

Rajat Pandit Alert
[ 18 Jan, 2007 2316hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

"The first test flight of MiG-29KUB is likely to take place on January 22, to be followed by the MiG-29K version later," said a senior officer. Armed with eight types of air-to-air missiles, the MiG-29Ks on board INS Vikramaditya will make the Navy capable of striking deep into enemy territory from the high seas.

"The MiG-29Ks will also be capable of mid-air refuelling from IL-78 tankers, as well as other MiG-29Ks, under 'buddy-tanking'. While INS Vikramaditya will join us towards end-2008 after a full refit, the MiG-29 deliveries will begin this year," he said.

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First MiG 29 K for Indian Navy takes off

Manu Pubby
Posted online: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 0000 hrs

Moscow, January 22: The first fighter aircraft designed and developed in Russia after the break-up of the Soviet Union — the Mig 29 K/KUB for the Indian Navy — took off on its inaugural flight at the Zhukovskiy test centre here on Monday.

The first flight version of the ship borne fighters, on order from the Indian Navy for its carrier INS Vikramaditya, took off on a cold winter morning with the tell-tale black smoke but dispelled all doubts after a flawless 20-minute test flight.

India will receive the first serially produced aircraft in June this year as part of the 16 fighter jets deal. While the deal provides that an extra 30 aircraft can be procured later, MiG expressed its willingness to supply as many fighters as India wants on the eve of the test flight.

“The deal is for 16 aircraft but we can give any quantity required by India,” Director of the ‘Mikoyan Design Bureau’ Vladimir Barkovskiy said.

While the multi-role air superiority fighter Mig 29 K is the first major project to come out from the drawing board to serial production in post-Soviet Russia, the MiG Corporation is confident of pitching in its MiG 35 fighter for the Indian Air Force’s Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) requirement of 126 fighters.

“It (the test flight) is important not just for MiG but the Russian aviation as a whole. We had to make the whole aircraft, including avionics, from the scratch,” Barkovskiy said.

While the naval aircraft is named similarly, it is very different from the MiG 29s serving the IAF.

“It is an amazing aircraft to fly with completely new systems and the new digital fly by wire system. I would be happy to fly it anyway with Indian pilots,” MiG test pilot Mikhail Belyaev said after the test flight.

With the delivery of the first aircraft in June, the Indian Navy will begin test flights to determine that all requirements are fulfilled. The first batch of six new MiG 29 K/KUB fighters will actually land in India to be based in Goa only by November. “We will be carrying out tests of all equipment on board the aircraft and will conduct flight tests by Indian pilots after June,” Officer in Charge of the Mig 29 K overseeing team, Captain J Mahapatra said.

Features of the aircraft include a fully digitised ‘glass’ cockpit, improved engine protection against ingestion of foreign particles (like birds), a multi-mode radar and increased range due to increase in internal fuel capacity. The aircraft, the first bought by the navy after the Sea Harriers, will also be capable of playing the role of an air refueller. The contract with MiG will ensure that the navy gets the entire spectrum of services, including a full mission simulator.

While the navy will be getting 12 MiG 29 K single-seater aircraft and 4 Mig 29 KUB double-seater trainer aircraft, officials say that all of them will have full operational capabilities. The trainer version will be 95 per cent similar to the single seater but with a slightly reduced operational range.

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MiG-29K first flight photos

MiG-29K first flight- more photos

more pics here and the translation says that one more prototype is ready

Hi Chacko!
Thanks for the pictures of the new Indian Navy Fighter!
Wil the two seated MiG29K (KUB) be able to land on INS Vikramaditya and future Vikrant, or will it be a land based training aircraft?
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D'après, ce que je sais, la seule différence entre les monoplaces et les biplaces,c'est une reserve de carburant plus faible pour les seconds donc ils pourraient êtres embarqués

Look at the folding wings. The folding wings have no use while flying. It will be flown from carrier too for MiG-29 conversion training. For general land training IN will use IAF Hawks. As far as reports go, IN is looking at T-45 Goshawk for carrier landing training. So MiG-29 is for conversion training.

thanks for your answer, Chacko!
I asked it because the three Skyhawk TA4KU from Brazilian Naval aviation are not able to be used on Sao Paulo carrier, because a lack of power of their engine, so they are land based, and can eventually do only "touch and go"... but I think that MiG 29 have powerfull engines...
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Indian Air Show:







donc ces avions pourraient un jour decoller du pont du Vikramaditya sans catapulte, en utilisant le tremplin....