Yes we in fact know it by the board number 312, it was the second prototype. The aircraft shown in my post is the same aircraft a few years before, but RSK MiG upgraded its original MiG-29K prototypes (No.311 & 312) to support development of the definite MiG-29K (9.41) as is now operated by the IN.

@Martinez,
not in those pictures, but at these older pics it looks a bit like the wing folding mechanism was further out.

3 ? You mean 3, just like 2 ? Or am I blind ? 🙂

Looks indeed like 3, 2 under the wings and the one on the rear fuselage station. If you take a closer look it appears like the nose cone and tail of the weapon is visible behind the MLG doors.

@JJ,
the problem with the marketing brochures is that they often talk about capabilities which aren’t yet available. It is known that the AN/APG-77 and AN/APG-79 are set to be provided with a com feature, but are they actually capable to do so quite now and is there any more recent source about the SATCOM on block 30 Raptors. I just have a document from 2005 which still speaks about the block 40 etc. and some things have changed since. The upgrade path for the F-22 isn’t the same as it was planned 5 years ago and the “sharpening the Raptor’s claws” article which is more recent doesn’t loose a single word with regards to the SATCOM. I don’t know about the SH, SATCOM was proposed for block II+, but I have no idea whether this block is already available. The EA-18G is said to feature the SATCOM and it is supposedly based on the blk II with at least some of the II+ features, so it might be possible that SATCOM is in fact already deployed on the E/Fs as well, but I’m still seeking for a confirmation.

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some platforms dont use the better coms and rely on L16, i guess the f-22 transmits to the awacs etc and they hub it to others via L16

And how do you link to an AWACS without a datalink compatible? LINK16 equipped aircraft usually don’t communicate between each other, except for a max. of 8 aircraft, but instead sent their data to a “hub” which broadcasts the collected and fused data from various platforms.

It is yes.

Years ago it was stated that the wing folding mechanism of the 9.41 would be moved in by 1 m per wing or in other words reduce the span to about 5.8 m as opposed to the 7.8 m on the 9.31. The was said to be a necessity as the Vikrimatya is smaller than the Kuznetsov and as the aircraft wouldn’t fit on the lifts.

@Arthuro,
when later, with what funds and how many engineers were involved in the respective programmes? That there are no firm orders for equipping Typhoons or Gripens with an AESA radar doesn’t mean that Selex and others are “years behind” Thales as such. The platforms on the receiving side may see an AESA just years later, but that doesn’t mean that others than Thales are way behind in the development curve of the technology.

How On earth can Euro fighter claim that The F-22 has no net wrk enabled OPs and that the F-35 doesnt have the Typhoons missile load out? this is flat out dishonest!! why wernt things like Jamming, IRST, DIRCm, Super sonic launch of A2G weapons, Fuel Load, and A2g weaposn and load on this chart?

Well the F-22 can only communicate to other F-22s via datalink. It is capable of receiving data from other sources as well, but it can’t provide its own. By that metric the F-22 isn’t net enabled from the overall force structures point of view. And for that matter, the Eurofighter article spoke about “fighters”, not strikers. That’s the whole point of the article and reasoning behind it. In the end it’s just marketing as that of other manufacturers. That people actually wonder why they make such claims is beyond me. That’s business would be the correct answer. Downplay the competition and present your own product in the best light, nitpick on selective points where your product excels and ignore those where the competitors score. Doing anything else would be bad marketing. That’s much the same when you see the LM slights about the F-22/35 being the only aircraft survivable in a high threat environment, read their marketing ploy about the F-16IN offered to Indian and this aircraft becomes a survivor which can defeat the most advanced air defence systems…