(sorry if there’s a thread for this already)
I was making a little search on Iraqi Exocet integration on MiG’s and this question came to my mind.
How about making a compilation on examples in which Russian made combat aircraft are modified to carry non-Russian equipment (EW, targeting and navigation pods, missiles, guided and dumb bombs, rockets etc)?
By: googeler - 15th November 2009 at 12:06
– MiG-21 upgrades – especially Elbit Lancer (Python III/IV, Lizard, Rafael LDP, Mk82, Magic II)
– Czech MiG-23ML with Magic II
– Slovak MiG-29 with Magic II
MiG-21 Lancer does not have Python IV integrated, only III; in addition to what you mentioned they also have Opher IR guided bomb and Elta EL/L-8222 EW pod
Afaik the Czech and Slovak Magic II were attached to the respective aircraft just for show, no real integration occured.
The Indians integrated a number of Western weapons on their MiG-23BN/27M such as 25lb practice bombs dispenser, BAP-100 anti runway bombs, 1000lb bombs
By: roberto_yeager - 26th October 2009 at 09:47
Yes, I was sure that probably it was a Orao (more logical isn´t it?) but like I had read it, I only translate that text to here… but, like you said, Serbia DON´T havae IR Mavericks… you are OK.
1Saludo
By: Levsha - 25th October 2009 at 18:34
AFAIK Egyptian MiG-21MF:
1979 – fitted with AIM-9P (AIM-9J1?)
1981 – Combined Soviet/Western IFF, ALE-40 decoys, RWR. However, planned upgrade with APQ-159 radar cancelled.
1984 – AIM-9P3. Some fitted with ALQ-234 jammer pod
1989 – AIM-9L
2008 – Possibly fitted with HMS
Didn’t Egyptian MiG-21s get Martin Baker ejection seats as well?
Yes, I knew the Orao with AGM-65.
But if you can read the International Air Power Review Volumen 8, page 84, it´s said: “…. MiG-21 made sweeps over the Croat capital of Zabreb and, on 7 October, a very precise attack was launched on the Presidential Palace with infra-red guided AGM-65 Maverick misiles, belived to hav been fired from a MiG-29. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, was oly a few feet away from the impact area but surived….”
No, it was an Orao, I can still remember the news coverage of the event since then. Incidently, what’s an ‘infra-red guided AGM-65’, you mean a Maverick with thermal imaging seeker? The Yugoslavs certainly didn’t have those in 1991!
By: Peter G - 25th October 2009 at 09:31
AFAIK Egyptian MiG-21MF:
1979 – fitted with AIM-9P (AIM-9J1?)
1981 – Combined Soviet/Western IFF, ALE-40 decoys, RWR. However, planned upgrade with APQ-159 radar cancelled.
1984 – AIM-9P3. Some fitted with ALQ-234 jammer pod
1989 – AIM-9L
2008 – Possibly fitted with HMS
By: Distiller - 25th October 2009 at 08:50
Egyptian MiG-21 carrying AIM-9. Early 1980’s, as far as I’m aware.
By: Peter G - 24th October 2009 at 12:57
Weren’t there claims India integrated the R-73 on the Mirage 2000?
What about Russia using the Damocles on the Su-34, etc:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/01/16/220747/russian-fighters-to-use-thales-damocles-targeting-pods.html
By: roberto_yeager - 24th October 2009 at 12:32
Yes, I knew the Orao with AGM-65.
But if you can read the International Air Power Review Volumen 8, page 84, it´s said: “…. MiG-21 made sweeps over the Croat capital of Zabreb and, on 7 October, a very precise attack was launched on the Presidential Palace with infra-red guided AGM-65 Maverick misiles, belived to hav been fired from a MiG-29. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, was oly a few feet away from the impact area but surived….”
1Saludo
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd October 2009 at 21:09
I have read some time in a IAPR, that the yugoslavian MiG-29 could and fire AGM-65 Maverick,but I never see a photo…
1Saludo
Nope, that was the J-22 Orao, not MiG-29.
By: roberto_yeager - 23rd October 2009 at 18:01
I have read some time in a IAPR, that the yugoslavian MiG-29 could and fire AGM-65 Maverick,but I never see a photo…
1Saludo
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd October 2009 at 14:57
There were not that many, AFAIK.
– Iranian Su-24MK Fencers carrying Mk82 bombs, as well as some domestic designs originated from AGM-65 Maverick
– Iraqi MiG-23ML with Exocet
– MiG-21 upgrades – especially Elbit Lancer (Python III/IV, Lizard, Rafael LDP, Mk82, Magic II)
– Su-30MKI – Litening II pod
– Su-30MKM – Damocles pod
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– Czech MiG-23ML with Magic II
– Slovak MiG-29 with Magic II
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October 23, 2009 at 12:48 pm