Deliveries of MiG-29 will begin in Egypt in 2016
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Until the end of 2016, the corporation "MiG" deliver to North Africa the first two MiG-29M / M2 according to the contract signed in the spring of 2015. This Saturday, February 6, deputy director general of the corporation Alexey Beskibalov, reports
RIA Novosti .
MiG spokesman did not specify the country of the contracting authority, but the signing of Egyptian media
reported in late May 2015.
In total, the customer will receive more than 50 fighters, the delivery should be completed by 2020.Signed contract to become the biggest "MiG" in the post-Soviet period.
"Rosoboronexport has signed the largest contract in the history of military-technical cooperation, on which we have to put more than 50 MiG-29M / M2 (...) It will load the power of our combined businesses and Lukhovitsy, and Nizhny Novgorod until 2020," - Beskibalov said.
Earlier it was reported that Cairo should receive 46 fighters. As the "Lente.ru" a source in the industry, it is most likely to supply 46 single machines MiG-29M and six or eight sparok MiG-29M2, intended for training pilots.
MiG-29M / M2, also known as "marketing" index MiG-35 / 35D ( "the product 9-61 / 7" in the original nomenclature of Mikoyan Design Bureau), is the latest to date version of the MiG-29 fighter-known platforms. The main differences of the new machines are in the advanced avionics, increased range and improved engines with thrust vector control. This version of the fighter was developed in the 2000s with the use of solutions that have arisen in the course of creating a modernized version based fighter MiG-29K / KUB ( "the product 9-41 / 7 ')
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