Ukrainian media: Upgraded fighter MiG-29MU2 risks remaining in a single copy

The leadership of the Lviv Aircraft Repair Plant (LGARZ) complains that the country's defense department did not provide the enterprise with the opportunity to implement orders for 2021. It is noted that at the moment the state-owned enterprise is completing work on orders that were received last year and earlier. One of the ongoing contracts is the modernization of the MiG-29 fighter. We are talking about the MiG-29MU2 variant.

Ukrainian media report that "the modernization is almost complete", but there is also a problem. The publication Defense Express says that the MiG-29MU2 fighter runs the risk of remaining in a single copy in the Ukrainian Air Force.

What is the difference between the upgraded version of the MU2 and other variants of the Soviet-designed fighter?

In Ukraine, they note that at the Lviv plant, the car is being turned into a "truly multi-purpose" one. In particular, the aircraft can be used to destroy not only air targets, but also targets on the ground.

Initial work on this type of modernization began in 2018. Now, according to Ukrainian media, the aircraft is going through the final stages of testing, although it is not entirely clear what kind of "final tests are we talking about" if it is in the factory hangar.

Nikolay Chernoshtan, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Lviv Aircraft Repair Plant:

Previously, the MiG-29 was a front-line fighter, using only air-to-air missiles, and now it can use guided weapons against ground targets.

At the same time, the plant itself is sounding the alarm due to the fact that it is getting closer to bankruptcy due to the lack of new orders.

Comments

[Pessimist22]

Yes, soon America will send them the F35, so let the Soviet be cut into metal.

[Siberian]

Quote: Pessimist22

Yes, soon America will send them the F35, so let the Soviet be cut into metal.

Most likely the calendar will be sent from the F35

[Insurgent]

Ukrainian media: Upgraded fighter MiG-29MU2 risks remaining in a single copy

MU2 - This is true ?

[figwam]

Quote: Insurgent

MU2 - is that so?

Modification 2 ...

[gurzuf]

Moo twice, it's probably Moo moo

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Insurgent

MU2 - is that so?

Mudwa. And that's it.

[synodontis]

the letter b is clearly superfluous

[Orange bigg]

Quote: Insurgent

Ukrainian media: Upgraded fighter MiG-29MU2 risks remaining in a single copy

MU2 - This is true ?

The cow on the left is smarter.

[Insurgent]

Quote: OrangeBigg

The cow on the left is smarter.

Obviously She even opened her mouth in surprise ...

[cat Rusich]

Quote: sibiryk

Most likely the calendar will be sent from the F35

You can order at least a "squadron" right now, at least two ...

The price is 2360 rubles ... (size 1/72).

The price is 1500 rubles (size 1/48).

[Simargl]

Quote: Pessimist22

soon America will send them F35

 It is much easier to order here

https://aliexpress.ru/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20210319031559&SearchText=F35+масштаб+1%3A35

[APASUS]

They have an F-35 on the way, why does Ukraine need a MiG-29 ............

[rocket757]

Ukrainian media: Upgraded fighter MiG-29MU2 risks remaining in a single copy

"tuzik" is dead ... there is no need to trample around a corpse, bury it and forget.
And so, at the expense of the "penguin" .... dreamers dreamers. Although, this is more like nonsense.

[LiSiCyn]

Quote: rocket757

tuzik "dead ... there is no reason to trample around the corpse, bury and forget.

And so, they have everything ... Served beautifully, but in fact .... "Neptune" - 1 pc. MiG-29 (modernized) - 1pc. T-84 (Stronghold) - 1pc. ACS "Bogdana" - 1 pc. Etc.

[rocket757]

Their president and his entourage took everything away to their bins ... and since they did not even pull the capitalists, greedy grabber from the gateway, they screwed up all the great wealth that was left extremely inherited from the USSR. And the people sho ... everything was gone, and the last stage is jumping and pots on their heads !!!
Have pity on them? No, thank you ... most likely we will have to treat everyone there, then.

[Revolver]

Quote: rocket757

No, thank you

Dismissals should start with Zelensky. And then - Avakyan, Saakashvili, Lyashko, in general, all the chief executives.

[rocket757]

Who will fire? The striped ambassador?
There is no other power ...

[Alex widerkehr]

It's good that in Russia everything belongs to the people. Subsoil. forests and factories. I read the article: Russia is ahead of America and China! (https://zavtra.ru/blogs/rossiya_vperedi_ameriki_i_kitaya) I advise you to read. And I am proud that I am a citizen of Russia

[Non liberoid Russian]

you are the same citizen of Russia as I am a knight of the island of Malta

[Alex widerkehr]

With an unfamiliar person, it is customary to say "you". Russian language etiquette. Yes, I have dual citizenship. I personally know entrepreneurs from Russia who have passports of citizens of Cyprus and Latvia. German citizenship is understandable.

[Dilettante grandfather]

And for MU (zeya), more is not required.

[AshPoseidon]

Ukrainian media: Upgraded fighter MiG-29MU2 risks remaining in a single copy

Well what can I say? Up galloped!

[Ros 56]

Interestingly, and they saw themselves from the side?

[Tochilka]

The lady in the fur coat looks impressive. The pan wonderfully repeats the German helmet. The belt is wide and reliable.

[Richard]

Excuse me, Ash Poseidonov (Roman), are you by any chance a former Lipchanin?
He just shoved this picture into all his posts on the "Ukrainian theme"

[AshPoseidon]

Not Lipchanin, although he was met in the vastness of VO. I read this resource for a long time.

[Thrifty]

Reminds the anecdote of Soviet times "five years ago we stood on the edge of the abyss, since then we have stepped far forward" !!!

[Reserve buildbat]

MiG-29MUMU ... And its deck version should be called MiG-29MU2K ...
Although I'm somehow not sure what the new paint can make from the old MiG-29 "a truly multipurpose vehicle"

[Dilettante grandfather]

I think it depends on the amount of paint ... There even a completely new plane can turn out if several tanks of paint, layer by layer, are applied to it. There will be not MU-2, but OU-I-OU-2.

[Reserve buildbat]

NUINA I ask you not to offend! It was an excellent institute!

[mojohed2012]

It seems that the Mu-2 is when a Soviet-made wire on an aircraft is also still Soviet-made, only a freshly painted one is wound a bunch of mortar shells into a special grip on radio control.
In flight, the pilot presses the button and the radio-controlled grip releases the bunch. There is no aiming, scattering is chaotic, and accuracy is zero.
Some ukroexperty wrote about the prospects of this MU.
Maybe these were their assumptions or fantasies, but since there is no other information how a fighter without a sight to bombard the earth's surface will attack objects.
In all seriousness they wrote so. For what I got, for what I sell.
Each mortar shell has 1 branch of wire. The wire is stranded, so God forbid it does not come off. There, everything is wound on top of a special tape, which, when the gripper is released, tear the projectiles spreading out in a fan, tk. each projectile is tied in such a way that, in free fall, it deviates from the capture axis when they are in the beam.

[Ros 56]

And Bandera do not need more than one, all the same, either they will sell to the left or they themselves will ditch.

[Emil Azeri]

Here from our Azerbaijan MIG29-MU1 campaign they tried to make MU2.
Aircraft produced on June 30, 1988. Delivered to Azerbaijan from the presence of the Ukrainian Air Force in 2006-2011.

The boxes of aircraft units KSA-3 were repaired, and repaired sets of equipment SN-3307-01 PKAN.461513.032-01, blocks Н019-09F of the modernized RLPK, components, parts, assemblies, special components, blocks, units from the product were supplied 9-13

(As I understand it, due to the high cost of MU2s they cannot afford, but they do for foreign clients.)

[TermNachTer]

How can an aircraft be upgraded without original spare parts? How was the possibility of "work on the ground" achieved - was the German sight "Loft - 2" installed?))))

[knn54]

- the plant itself is sounding the alarm due to the fact that it is getting closer to bankruptcy due to the lack of new orders.
EU recommendations to life. And for a bet, one car is enough.
PS So the collective of the plant "jumped".

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

Upgrading the MiG-29 is a waste of money for Ukraine.

There are not many MiG-29s left in Ukraine, I think even if all of them are modernized, it will still not recoup the costs of the repair enterprise.

It is an expensive pleasure to maintain a plant. And he cannot work forever at a loss.

And I think the modernization of MiGs by Ukraine will not be very good. Ukraine will not make new engines for the MiG-29, they will update the avionics by increasing its performance characteristics, but it will still be difficult for it to compete with Russian fighters.

And realizing this, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is probably in no hurry to spend money on the modernization of fighters.

[donavi49]

"final tests are in question" if it is in the factory hangar.

Well, if the Su-57 is in the factory hangar, then of course it has never flown?

MU2 has been flying for a year and making launches.

Of course, this is an experimental machine, which is adjusted, readings are taken, etc. In general, the option is debatable. That is, as an MFI in general, it will not be superfluous. On the other hand, how many of them can really be done? Even if you strain your strength and 24. This will not make much of the weather. Moreover, there is also a problem with resources and with engines, which can only be done with HTG with repair elements.

[Emil Azeri]

Like for the video.
Modification X29Т
I fired, I forgot ”- immediately after the missile is launched, the plane can leave the firing zone.
Aiming is performed on the contrast image received by a television camera. In this case, both the image of the object itself and the contrast of light-shadow can be used.
The maximum launch range of the Kh-29T is 13 km.
KVO is 2.2 meters (which is one and a half times less than the length of the rocket itself).
At the same time, the Kh-29T missiles can only be used during the day. Bad weather can also severely limit the use of this weapon.

(Designed to destroy fortified targets such as reinforced concrete structures, bridges, concrete runways, ships with a displacement of up to 10 tons.)

[Thorvlobnor IV]

Modernization to the MU2 level may be suspended, because the well-known Israeli company Elbit Systems has already received permission from the Israeli government to carry out a deep improvement of the Ukrainian MiG-29. Electronic systems, including radar and control systems, are subject to replacement: in fact, the aircraft will be transformed into a modern lightweight MFI.

[Real Pilot]

Quote: sibiryk

Quote: Pessimist22

Yes, soon America will send them the F35, so let the Soviet be cut into metal.

Most likely the calendar will be sent from the F35

With a "delivery schedule" calendar and a picture ... 2050! Growth, so to speak.

[Dilettante grandfather]

Quote: Emil Azeri

I fired, I forgot ”- immediately after the missile is launched, the plane can leave the firing zone.

"Shoot and forget" - if anything, this technology has existed from the very beginning of rocketry. Think of the BM-13, for example. There, too, no one was watching the missiles. Shot, and - forget, load the next.

[Yuri Alekseev_3]

We made a box for bacon, that's the whole modernization.