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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29.

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 is a Russian jet fighter aircraft designed in 1972 as a replacement for the MiG-21 and MiG-23 in the fighter role.

Characteristics

Role: multi-role fighter
Powerplant: rated at ? kgf military thrust and ? kgf maximum thrust
Size:
- Length: 20 m (56 ft 10 in)
- Height: 4.73 m (15 ft 6.25 in)
- Wingspan: m
- Wing area: m²
Weight:
- Empty: kg
- Normal Takeoff: kg
- Maximum: kg
Speed:
Ceiling: about 18 km
Range:
- Air Combat (10 minute loiter): km
- Air Combat (3 hour CAP): km
- Ground attack (hi-lo-hi): km
- Ground attack (lo-lo-lo): km
- Ferry: more than km
Wing Loading: kg/m² at normal takeoff weight
Thrust/weight ratio: 22,200 pounds
Armament:
- One 30mm GSh-30L cannon with 150 rounds

Six AAMs including a mix of SARH and AA- 8 Aphid (R60) AA-10 Alamo (R27T) AA-11 Archer (R73) FAB 500-M62, FAB-1000, TN-100, ECM Pods, S-24 AS-12, AS-14

Cost: about 1998USD 27 m

First flight: 1977

In service date: 1983

Users: Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Moldova, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Yugoslavia

See also:

Comparison of 2000s fighter aircraft

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