General director of the Salyut Moscow Machine Building Production Plant Yury Eliseev (left) with chief commander of the Russian Air Force Vladimir Mikhailov
Photo: Ilya Pitalev
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MiG 27 Fighter Bomber Will Have New Engines
General director of the Salyut Moscow Machine Building Production Plant Yury Eliseev has announced at the Farnborough Airshow in Great Britain that a new engine will be used in modernized MiG 27 fighter bombers, the main aircraft of the Indian Air Force. The new engine, the AL-31F, will be 200 kg. lighter than the R-29B-300 used previously, and have one metric ton more propulsion (12,300 kg./sec.) than its predecessor. It will also use 15 percent less fuel.
The Indian Air Force has 150 Mi G27 Bahadur models and will modernize 60 of them. General reconstruction will be carried out at the same time, with replacement of onboard equipment that will expand their abilities. The MiG 27 is the main fighter in the Indian Air Force. It was developed in the mid-1970s and mass produced in India between 1986 and 1996.
The ultrasonic aircraft has wings with changeable sweep for strikes against targets on the ground using precision-guided weapons such as pinpoint bombs and guided missiles. The modernization of the MiG 27 and its predecessor the MiG 23BN will bring in at least $1 billion to the Russian military industrial complex in the course of the next 10-12 years.
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