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The Five Eyes Air Force Interoperability Council (AFIC) assigns [1] codenames for fighters and other military aircraft originating in, or operated by, the air forces of the former Warsaw Pact, including Russia, and the People's Republic of China.
6 MiG-29 Military unit The Swifts ( Russian : Стрижи , romanized : Strizhi ) is an aerobatic demonstrator team of the Russian Air Force , formed on 6 May 1991.
This is a list of heritage NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Additional codes cover gaps in the ISO coverage, deal ...
Bulgarian MiG-29 with pair of R-27R (AA-10 Alamo) air-to-air missiles. Bulgaria had 13 MiG-29s in service as of 2022. [1] Bulgaria bought 15 MiG-29, before including 2 MiG-29UB. Also 4 MiG-29 in reserve. One aircraft disassembled in Bulgarian military factory. One MiG-29A crashed in 1994 and one MiG-29UB in 2004.
The MiG-29ME was the export version of the MiG-29M (Product 9.15) "Super Fulcrum", a comprehensively upgraded, fully multirole version of the MiG-29. Although the MiG-33 designation was soon dropped, the MiG-29M may have merited a new designation in that it is in many ways a thoroughly redesigned version of the MiG-29.
[1] [2] [3] On the other side, the Eritreans had bought eight MiG-29A and two MiG-29UB, [3] and employed Ukrainian experts to train their MiG-29 pilots. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] In February 1999, the Ethiopian high command launched Operation Sunset , using a strong force of 13 divisions to break through the Eritrean frontline and retaking much of the ...
[6] [16] The MiG-29K differed considerably from the MiG-29 production model, featuring a new multi-function radar, dubbed Zhuk; a cockpit with monochrome display and use of the HOTAS (hands-on-throttle-and-stick) principle; the RVV-AE air-to-air active homing missiles; antiship and antiradar missiles; as well as air-to-ground precision-guided ...
The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian: Микоян МиГ-29; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union.Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the larger Sukhoi Su-27, was developed to counter U.S. fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 ...