Anybody fancy a Mig?

Well at least someone has been in there watering the plant! 😀

http://www.aame.in/2011/08/mig-29.html

Must be Russia as Lenin is overseeing the work in photo 14…

What is the aircraft in the second and third photos? Single fin, twin seat, engines above the wing…

MiG-AT – failed contender for the Russian trainer contract – lost to the Yak-130.

We visited the RAC MIG Lukhovitsy factory (LMZ) a few years back – and it looked the same.

Lots of half-completed airframes but not much activity – certainly not bustling.

Lots of ‘white tail’ MiG-29’s out on the ramp – and, intriguingly, some MiG-29’s being worked on in a hangar with English stencilling.

Our hosts clammed up when we asked……..

Ken

Remarkable photos. There are certainly some Indian ones in there, the rest look like a stalled production line? What is the aircraft in the second and third photos? Single fin, twin seat, engines above the wing…

I think the answer maybe some where in this –

In December 2006, India placed a contract with MiG to upgrade 63 of its older MiG-29 aircraft (which entered service between 1986 and 1996) to advance MiG-29 SMT standard.

The upgrade includes new Klimov RD-33 engines, avionics and radars. The initial batch of six MiG-29s is being upgraded in Russia as part of a $964m contract. These upgraded aircraft are expected to enter service by the end of 2011. The remaining MiG-29s will be overhauled in India using Russian components.

Russian Aircraft Corporation (RSK-MiG) selected Thales in April 2010 to upgrade the MiG-29 fighter deployed by the Indian Air Force as part of a $900m retrofit project. Thales will upgrade the MiG-29 fighter with IFF1 combined interrogator transponder (CIT) and cryptographic national secure mode (NSM).

Thales will deliver the initial building block of a complete secure identification capability to India in 2011. The first five MiG-29s will be upgraded and flight-tested in Russia and the other aircraft will be upgraded in India with Russian technical assistance.

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/mig29/

Ben

Are they Indian MIG-29 in Russia ?

I seem to remember it being posted before, I can’t remember what was said
though.

But no tools or signs of human life? Although the floor is very shiny.

re;

looks like a production line and repairing clapped out ones