Posted on 07/26/2015 9:45:29 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
The aviation branch of the Russian Navy will get more than 20 new ship-borne MiG-29K fighters by the end of 2015, the Defense Ministry’s press service said.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The warplanes will serve as a backbone for a new aviation unit within the Northern Feet.
"To boost the Navy’s aviation component, the work is underway to equip the Navy Aviation [branch] with MiG-29K. This work began in 2013 and will be finalized in 2015," the press service said in a statement, adding the Navy will get more than 20 MiGs.
Russia has been stepping up its presence in the Arctic since late 2014 when it revised its military doctrine to declare the region an area of its interest.
The Arctic is believed to have vast untapped reserves of oil and gas. The five Arctic Circle countries, comprising the United States, Russia, Canada, Norway, and Denmark, are particularly interested in exploring them.
F-14 knock-off?
Closer to F-15 it looks like...no swept wings it seems...
I’m probably wrong....again
you’re right.
I thought the Sov, er, Russkis didn’t like the MiG-29?
I served on board an aircraft carrier and saw an F=14 go over board.
The Mig-29K is a new(er) generation multirole aircraft with development paid for by India. Russia’s existing Su-33s are only air defence capable and ordering a newer variant for a small fleet would be prohibitive.
The 29 has really short legs, even after they added a dorsal fuel tank. I wonder why they didn’t use something from the Su-27 family?
To be sure, MiGs and Sukhois can still be menacing to poorly armed and defended neighbors and are good enough for export to those with similar needs. Yet even when the politics and history are congenial, as with Brazil and India, foreign buyers increasingly prefer Western aircraft, which are more potent, safer, more reliable, and are designed for regular use, high sortie rates in power projection and in combat operations.
Don’t forget the old YAK design bureau, they stank without copying anyone
Lol, me too, on the JFK back in 1976! I seem to recall we are about 500 miles off the coast of Scotland… It was a big deal back then, it was a Russian cruiser shadowing us, and saw exactly where the plane went into the water...
The Yakovlev bureau tried copying or adapting Western designs and concepts, but they and the Soviet economy at large lacked the necessary technical base to do so with consistent, long term success.
I am pretty sure the 141 was a purely domestic POS.
Oddly, the Soviet educational system had a strongly meritocratic approach toward identifying and lavishing attention on students with ability in math, science, and engineering. This often led to conceptual innovations that alarmed the West but failed to translate into useful and reliable weapons. The larger defects of the Soviet system simply could not be avoided.
The MiG-25 Foxbat, for example, with an emergency high altitude speed of Mach 3.2, deserves credit as the world's fastest fighter jet ever to enter production. The aircraft though had limited range and maneuverability, and its massive engines had to be scrapped after a run at maximum speed. Supposedly, Iranian F-14s scored about ten MiG-25 kills during the Iran-Iraq war in the early 1980s.
The 141 might be workable with present technology though, but with the F-35 it would be pointless to pursue it.
Quite true. The F-35 has its issues, but in the end, it can and will be made to work. The Yak-141 apparently was not seen as worth the cost and effort.
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