Indian experience for the Armed Forces: A upgraded MiG-29 is able to carry ballistic missiles

This weapon significantly increases the combat potential of the aircraft, as this weapon is able to impress targets at a range of 250 km at supersonic speed. This was reported on January 27 by Army Recognition. The material states that the introduction of these missiles transforms the MiG-29K aircraft fleet into a universal platform to perform complex strategic tasks. And to integrate Rampage, Indian engineers needed minimal changes in the design of the aircraft.

In particular, the pendant pylons were modified and the onboard wiring was updated, which made it possible to use new type missiles without significant achievements. The Rampage rocket, developed by ISRAEL AEROSPACE Industries (IAI) and IMI Systems, is a high-precision weapon of the Land Land, designed to strike strategic blows.

The rocket is equipped with a Range Extension and Smart Tail (Rest), which is essentially analogous to the American JDAM, so weapons combine efficiency and operational flexibility. Rampage with a probability of a circular error (CEP) can only effectively affect critically important infrastructure objects, including air base, command centers, ammunition compositions and logistics units. Thus, the Indian weapons presented the original solution, which actually gave the chance to stay outdated.

Interestingly, Indian experts in principle decided to modernize the MiG-29K, since previously experts were severely criticized by the car. The Indian Audit Agency of the CompTroller and Auditor General (CAG) in 2016 prepared an analysis of defects and defects purchased in Russia for operation on the aircraft carrier "Vikradaya" Ship Fighter MiG-29K. According to the report, planes have serious technical problems, including engine defects, glider and remote steering control system.

The document also emphasized the low level of quality control and service on the part of the Russian defense industry over the last 25 years, despite the full financing of the MiG-29K development of the Indian side. Despite the identified shortcomings, the Indian Navy did not want to give up these fighters, considering them the best option for operating on aircraft carriers, which in fact indicates either the incompetence of military leadership or double standards of CAG analysts.

Last March, it became known that Ukrainian MiG-29 was given an important modernization, which allowed the Armed Forces to make high-precision strikes on the enemy. It was about the integration of high -precision aircraft AASM 250 Hammer. Later, the first personnel of the use of these weapons appeared. However, the Indian solution gives the aircraft more efficiency as Rampage missiles are more threatening weapons.