MiG-35: Super Fulcrum Answer To F-35?
The MiG-35 has a necessary set of avionics enabling the use of all means of currently available air weapons against aerial, ground and surface targets. It also had a single or a double seat option which was previously assigned to specialized training and combat aircraft.
Today, the corporation has been working on the preparations for the production launch of the new generation 4 ++ fighters.
“We have done a lot to increase the life of the aircraft and to reduce the cost of its operation, which is essential for the light fighter. An additional competitive advantage of MiG-35 is the possibility to use the exploitation of MiG-29 infrastructure. We hope that the MiG-35 will go into Russian Aerospace Forces in the period of 2018-2020,” the General Director of Corporation MiG, Sergei Korotkov said.
A deep development of the MiG-29 family, the advanced jet can simultaneously lock on to 10 targets and can engage up to six of them. In contrast with its predecessors, the MiG-35 has made significant evolutionary steps:
• It carries more weapons;
• Flight costs 2.5 times less;
• Pilots use helmet imaging systems;
• The plane carries more fuel and can participate in air refueling as both “recipient” and “donor”;
• The MiG-35 is equipped with a very sophisticated electronic warfare system and an anti-missile system;
• It has a range of 5th generation aircraft characteristics etc.
The aircraft can reach speeds of Mach 2.23 and fly as high as 19,000 meters. In addition, the aircraft can carry a full range of existing and prospective aircraft weapons. The jet is armed with a 30mm gun, air-to-air, air-to-surface, anti-ship, anti-radar missiles, rockets, bombs and aerial mines. The MiG-35 aircraft was first presented internationally during the Aero India 2007 air show.
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