Never underestimate Russian ingenuity.
The point is that it needs a good amount of countermeasures, or it will inevitably suck
ecm will save
dont worry, i will bleed all the energy of that missile with how much fuel i can take. without using chaff
Why should it not use the Zhuk-M? It was designed to use it and was one of the main avionics upgrades and all operational variants are using a -M derivative.
Even the first version of the 29M that was publicly seen (1994 Farnborough) displayed under the MiG-33 name, had to to have had the Zhuk-M as it was displayed with a Kh-31 which require an air-to-surface capable radar (Zhuk is strictly a2a).
Zhuk m didn’t exist back then dude
MiG-35s could be in mass service and they wouldn’t see frontline duty. MiG-29 is a dead platform.
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Well… 9.16 was the test aircraft for N010M on MiG-29M 9.15 afaik… Nvm that was N010.
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Damn. So it can get it for technical compatibility? Not too miffed bout it then
Nah, I think this pic I was thinking off was later on Post-29M, Likely something for 29M/M2 9.41S
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Fair enough. I suppose the Kh-31’s just magically locked targets on their own then :p
Kh-31Ps do not need a radar to be utilized.
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Kh-31P series are anti radiation missiles, they rely on passive detection, the ones that require the aircraft’s radar are the Kh-31A series anti ship missiles
what would 9.41 have over 9.15 again?
read here
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No hands :)
Depends on what you need. MiG-29 is pretty cheap to run, and has incredibly short preparation time. It also seems to work better than Flankers in extreme northern conditions, looking how Russia tends to send MiGs on arctic military excercises. It is loosing to Su-35 in many ways, but i think still has enough to offer to not be considered dead.
looking how Russia tends to send MiGs on arctic military excercises.
Or maybe it’s because they’re keeping the main flankers for the actual conflict…
It’s also probably to keep them in some sort of operability since they haven’t touched them since the Ukraine conflict started, they’ll likely be retired or sold off by the 2030s or something I assume.
it was done even before 2022.