Some 70% of Russia's MiG-29 fighters unable to fly - experts

06/02/2009 14:39 MOSCOW, February 6 (RIA Novosti) - At least 200 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters, or 70% of the total in service with the Russian Air Force, are too old to take to the skies, a Russian business daily said on Friday citing military experts.

Following a MiG-29 crash in East Siberia last December, the Defense Ministry admitted for the first time that Russia's MiG-29 fleet was mostly outdated and not capable of performing combat duties.

The crash was the second in East Siberia involving a MiG-29 fighter in less than two months. In mid-October, a MiG-29 fighter crashed 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Domna airfield during a regular training flight. The pilot ejected safely.

Lt. Gen. Sergei Bainetov said on Wednesday that all aircraft of this type were thoroughly inspected after the crash and the probe revealed "traces of corrosion on the tail unit of some of the planes."

Only 30% of the MiG-29s were allowed to resume flights after a month-long suspension.

The Kommersant daily said in an article on Friday that experts believe the aircraft, which was developed in the 1970s and supplied to the Air Force between 1983 and 1993, has become obsolete and needs to be removed from active service.

In the past, the Russian Air Force rejected radical modernization of MiG-29s, choosing the upgrade of Su-27 Flanker and MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors.

The production of new MiG-29s at an assembly plant near Moscow was stopped a long time ago, and in the 1990s Russia built the aircraft mainly for exports from assembly kits inherited from the Soviet Union, Kommersant said.

Even though Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has promised the Defense Ministry that it will deliver in the near future 34 MiG-29SMTs, rejected by Algeria, to the Russian Air Force, these aircraft will not be able to replace 281 MiG-29 fighters currently in service.

Russia's first fifth-generation fighter will make its maiden flight by the end of this year, but it will take at least five years to finally put it in service with the Air Force. Meanwhile, Russia may not be able to operate about a third of its fighter fleet, the paper said.

Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who is in charge of arms procurement, said on January 20 that Russia's fifth-generation fighter must be commissioned with the Air Force by 2015.

Припремање јавности за нове набавке и нове трошкове. Већ виђено.
Ништа не фали 29-ткама.

Ne bih rekao da je tako. Novi avion je 6 godina daleko, najmanje, tako da ovo sigurno nije priprema javnosti za nove troskove, osim ako planiraju da kupe neki avion koji nije ruske proizvodnje.

"Da se ja pitam, ja bi proterao autobus ovuda. Nije to tako loše kao što izgleda"

Pa da su  prihvatili program modernizacije 29-ki, i ne bi toliko imali problema, mada mislim da nije tako katastrofalno kao što mediji navode.

ne verujem da je stanje bash toliko kritichno ,ali da je loshe jeste . zemlja je josh uvek u velikoj meri u rukama oligarha - jevreja ili sa vezama sa jevrejskom mafijom . putin ih jeste malo suzbio na pochetku svog mandata ,ali to je nedovoljno i sada se oni polako vracaju na vlast .

 korupcija je prilichno izrazena svuda ,pa tako i u oruzanim snagama - slichno kao i kod nas ogroman deo budzeta ide kancelarijskim pacovima ,a borbene jedinice dobijaju ostatke. naravno , njihov budzet je mnogo veci nego nash ,pa se to ne primeti toliko ,mada je jasno da veci deo vojske josh koristi tehniku ostalu iz SSSR. a kao shto je poznato ,mig-29 nisu bash poznati po pouzdanosti ... 

Ala lupas ko maksim po diviziji, kakvi sad jevreji u rusiji i jos jevrejska mafija, ccc kako samo izmisljas ko braca Grim

kad neko nema argumenata on pochne sa vredjanjem  ... potrazi spisak ruskih oligarha ,proveri ko je sve od njih "etnichki jevrej" ,ko je dobio novac iz jevrejskih izvora za pochetak karijere u jeljcinova "smutna vremena" ,zashto i putin i medvedev malo-malo istichu "posebnost" jevreja u rusiji ...

Ma ti si obican paranoik koji svaku temu spamuje sa glupostima o jevrejima, ako nemas sta pametno da kazes o problemu MiG-29, idi na politicki deo foruma pa tamo prosipaj budalastine, ovde to nema svrhe...

Ni ja ne verujem da je bas toliko kritcno!!!a ovo sa jevrejima je tacno....ali jos malo pa gotovo!!!

PS: i ne vracaju se na vlast u rusiji...ostalo ih je jos jako malo!!!
Hvala bogu na tome!!!