{"id":585,"date":"2011-01-15T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/?p=585"},"modified":"2011-03-01T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T07:00:24","slug":"russia-tests-upgraded-mig-29-fighter-for-iaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/2011\/01\/15\/russia-tests-upgraded-mig-29-fighter-for-iaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia tests upgraded MiG-29 fighter for IAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>The RSK MiG-29UPG had its maiden flight at the Gromov LII airfield near Moscow on 4 February. The MiG-29UPG has been developed by RSK MiG at the request of the Indian Air Force (IAF).<br \/>\nA Russian-Indian contract, worth $964 million, was signed on 7 March 2008 to upgrade 63 IAF MiG-29s.<\/p>\n<p>Six MiG-29s, including four single and two twin-seaters, will be upgraded at the RSK MiG facilities in Russia while the remaining 57 are to be fitted at the IAF&#8217;s eleventh aircraft repair plant in India.<br \/>\nRussia&#8217;s RAC MiG Corporation has carried out the first test flight of an upgraded MiG-29 fighter for the Indian Air Force&#8217;s $964 million upgrade programme for the fourth generation combat jets.<\/p>\n<p>The maiden test flight of the MiG-29UPG took place at Zhukovski airfield of M M Gromov Flight Research Institute<br \/>\nThe first six aircraft are being upgraded in Russia while the remaining 63 will be refitted by HAL in India.<br \/>\nThese upgrades include a new avionics kit, with its older radar being replaced by a Fazatron Zhuk-M radar.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft is also being equipped to enhance BVR (beyond-visual-range) combat ability and for mid-air refuelling to increase flying time.<br \/>\nUnder the project Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) acquired a license in 2007 for the assembly of 120 RD-33 series 3 turbojet engines for the upgraded jets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSK MiG-29UPG had its maiden flight at the Gromov LII airfield near Moscow on 4 February. The MiG-29UPG has been developed by RSK MiG at the request of the Indian Air Force (IAF). A Russian-Indian contract, worth $964 million, was signed on 7 March 2008 to upgrade 63 IAF MiG-29s. Six MiG-29s, including four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mig-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toad-design.com\/migalley\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}