Unleashing a storm from the decks of aircraft carriers, the MiG-29K Fulcrum roars into the sky, a symbol of naval air power that’s not confined to Russian waters. With arresting hooks and reinforced landing gear, this fighter jet defies the challenges of sea-based operations, mastering the art of catapult launches and deck landings. Soaring over the Indian Ocean, it’s the backbone of India’s naval air arm, a testament to its adaptability and international reach.
Born in the crucible of the Cold War, the MiG-29K has undergone a transformation that defies its age. No longer just a relic, it’s been retrofitted with modern avionics, including the Zhuk-ME radar, and an arsenal that ranges from air-to-air missiles to anti-ship weaponry. Serving in multiple fleets across the globe, this versatile jet showcases how innovation can breathe new life into older frameworks.
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What a fantastic channel, free from politics and just facts !
There are very few navies that have catapults on their aircraft carriers, and the Russians, Chinese, and Indians don't have them.
Poland still flying Migs ?
And the carrier has to be towed wherever it is needed. Complete GARBAGE!
My dad was a naval aviator. After seeing harriers for ages we got Russian jets for the first time, no one was happier than the fighter Bois. Some Indian pilots have more hours on the mig than Russian ones.
My dad was a naval aviator. After seeing harriers for ages we got Russian jets for the first time, no one was happier than the fighter Bois. Some Indian pilots have more hours on the mig than Russian ones.
So Russia built a naval MiG-29. Where is the super problem?
The pilot has split second in – flight decisions as do I have another shot of vodka or can I make it to an unfriendly country to defect.
Um, what is the point of this video? What are the “super problems” alluded to in the title? Why are you comparing the carrier-based version to the F-16? The MiG-29 certainly has a plethora of problems, none of which you refer to in your video. I have watched dozens of Dark Skies productions and this may be the worst one, jumping from subject to subject and back, repeating yourself, providing a very incomplete and one-sided look at this aircraft. A disappointing effort.
Why….the MiG 29 was designed to counter the F-16. The F-18 outclasses it in every respect especially the naval variant.
I am more than half way through, and this guy just keeps on reading some Russian arms expo sales brochure aloud over some stock footage. Yes, it is a marvel of a fighter aircraft… it shoots missiles and has a radar that pierces the sky… unlike any other naval fighter. But do those things actually make it marvelous, or even good, or even competitive, or even passable? I guess the sales brochure did not reveal that.
What is the point of this video? I understand it makes easy quick cash, and this is the type of loweffort stuff YouTube is built on, but still. These channels are now popping up everywhere where people read Wikipedia articles over stock footage. The real, good military technology content by investigative producers gets buried under this crap — unfortunately.
Comparing the MiG-29K and the F-16 is sort of a non sequitur.
It would have been better to compare the MiG-29K with the F/A-18
There was nothing "unprecedented" in the MiG-29K, features other naval aircraft had for years. And why compare it against the F-16, when it should really be sized up against the F-18 …
Would a more appropriate comparison not be the F/A-18 with the Mig-29K?After all, the F/A-18 evolved from he original YF-17 design from the lightweight fighter competition.
it doesn't matter how good the carrier based planes are if you ain't got a carrier to carry them
Never thought I'd hear "Combat readiness" and "Admiral Kusnetsov" in the same sentence.
I'd love to go up in a Mig-29, but there's no dam way I'd ever go up in one of those crazy Yak VSTOL aircraft.
The yak could never take off with much weight, so had limited fuel.
It used most of that fuel on take off and landing.
Many a yak ran out of go-go juice 10-20 feet off of the deck.
Due to how and where the front landing gear was mounted it would break off and either impale the pilot or impale the pilot and mechanically set off the ejection rocket without removing the cockpit canopy first, ouch.
Peoples, a cheap and easy to maintain and a good hunter fighter …and hunt down all the enemy on its visor ? ….like a very beautiful wife who stands when is needed next to husband and listen all bullshit spit by him.
TITLE – YOU GRAMMAR MANGLING COCKWOMBLES!
"The Super Jet With a Super Problems" — so what is/are the "Super Problem(s)"? Not even mentioned. No spare parts any more due to war in Ukraine? Or no aircraft carrier to fly off with the Kuznetzov in drydock, probably forever?
But did it have an arrestor hook?
5:45 NO, NOT from Russia, it was given by Russia to Ukraine!
And then "scrapped" by Ukraine sold to China!
By Ukaine!