15 June 2004 15:02
Russia to launch export of multirole MiG-29M/M2 Fulcrum fighters
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Moscow, 15 June: The MiG aircraft-building corporation is planing to start exporting its multirole MiG- 29M/M2
Fulcrum fighters in 2006. "We will export the MiG-29M/M2 fighters starting from 2006," MiG Designer General
Valeriy Toryanin told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday [15 June].
He added that the multirole single/twin-seated MiG-29M/M2 fighters are further derivatives of the seaborne
MiG-29K/KUB ones, with which they are 90 per cent unified. The land-based MiG-29M/M2 aircraft differ from the seaborne
versions with the design of the landing gear, the absence of arrestor and the added brake-chute. At the customers'
request, its wings may be folding as in the seaborne version or fixed. All the units, parts and elements of the airframe
and the engine are rust-protected. The fighters have a multiple-redundant four-channel digital fly-by-wire control
system. They are equipped with the new Zhuk-ME airborne radar, providing for a cartographic flight mode. The suite of
piloting, navigating and communicating equipment meets all the requirements of ICAO and NATO. The aircraft boasts the
ergonomic HOTAS configuration. All the fighters of the family have air-refuelling equipment installed, compatible with
both Russian and foreign equipment of tanker-planes. Besides, the fuel capacity of internal and external tanks has
grown. The weapons include a wide range of air-to-air missiles, such as the R-73E, RVV-AE, R-27ER/ET, as well as the
Kh-25M/25MP, Kh-29T, Kh-31P/31A and Kh-35U air-to-surface missiles, free rockets, aerial bombs, including guided ones,
and an internal 30-mm cannon. If required by the customer, the aircraft can be adjusted to carry foreign armaments.
[Interfax-AVN military news agency web site] |
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