The mig-29 aircraft alongside the sukhoi
su-27 was designed to serve the
Soviet Union so that it can have advantage over us fighter jets like the McDonnell Douglas
F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics f-16 Fighting Falcon. So now let's see how they compare with each other
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So this aircraft was developed by McCoy and design bureau and it was made for air superiority. And this was done back in the
1970s so the Mikoyan mig-29 is a twin-engine jet fighter designed to serve Russia
Previously the Soviet Union and one of the main advantages of the mig-29 is its ability to fire missiles that can hit ear-to-ear?
Targets outside of the line of sight the mig-29 is considered to be superior to other fourth-generation
American and European made fighter jets of their time the mig-29s have been in production since
1981 up until the present day and a number of mig-29 that have been built are over
1,600 and the cost to make them. Well, it's about 22 million approximately
Alright, so now let's see what the su-27 has to offer
So the sukhoi su-27 also called the flanker is a russian air superiority fighter plane
And this was introduced into the air force of the Soviet Union beginning in the year 1985
now the su-27 was a direct competitor with the United States as 4th generation fighters like the
f-14 tomcat and the f-15 Eagle the Russian Air Force
modified most of its existing flankers with a variety of advanced avionics
Improving its air to here capacity and also giving it an effective ground attack capability
the su-27s have been in production since
1982 and they're still in production to this day a little over 800 of them
Been built and they're a little bit more expensive than to make 29
These will run you about thirty point six million dollars now
Let's take a look at the differences between the specs and the designs of these aircraft for the mig-29. It has a range of
1430 kilometers and when I say range it's the distance that it can fly before it needs to refuel again
it has a maximum speed up mach 2.25 which is
2,400 kilometers per power which translates to one thousand four hundred and ninety miles the mig-29 has a total wingspan of
eleven point three six meters which works out to be
thirty-seven feet and three inches
It's empty weight is about eleven thousand kilograms or twenty four thousand two hundred and fifty pounds
it has a height of four point seven three meters or fifteen feet and six inches and the mig-29s length is
seventeen point three two meters or fifty six feet and ten inches
the service ceiling of the mig-29 is eighteen thousand meters or fifty nine thousand one hundred feet and
That is pretty much its maximum altitude when we look at the armament of the mig-29
It can carry one gun, and that's a 30 millimeter gryazev-shipunov
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Autocannon with 150 rounds in it. It has seven heart points where it can carry a combination of rockets
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the s five rockets s AIDS and the S twenty fours as well as it can carry two air to air missiles and for our
60 a AMS and for our
73 AMS it can also carry a total of six bombs weighing six hundred and sixty-five kilograms
Now the range of the su-27 or the distance that it can fly before it needs to refuel is three thousand five hundred and thirty
Kilometers the maximum speed of the su-27 is Mach
2.35 which is
2,500 kilometers per hour or
1550 miles per hour
It has a total wingspan of fourteen point seven meters which works out to be forty eight feet and three inches
Now the weight of the aircraft when it's not loaded with weapons or anything is sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty kilograms
Which works out to be 30?
Pounds the height of the aircraft is
5.92 meters which is 19 feet and 6 inches and has a length of 20 1.9 meters
which is 72 feet the service ceiling of the su-27 is
19,000 meters which is sixty two thousand five hundred and twenty three feet
So it can't fly any higher than that when it comes to the variants of these aircrafts the mig-29 has over 20
variants and the su-27 has
30-plus variants the countries that operate mig-29s are Russia, Ukraine
Yugoslavia Serbia India Germany Peru Poland Iraq Syria Sudan United States, Algeria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh North Korea and others now which countries operate the su-27
Well, I got a list of them right here. Those countries are Angola China Indonesia
Kazakhstan Mongolia, Russia, Ukraine Uzbekistan
Vietnam and the United States
so in conclusion
most experts say that the su-27 flanker is better overall than the mig-29 in many different aspects and
Some of the aspects that they looked at include the higher engine power the longer range
Endurance so it can fly a longer distance without having to refuel as well as its ability to carry a wide range of air-to-air
Missiles the radar in the su-27 also has a higher detection range and is able to fire
Er Virgin of the AR 27 at a further distance than the mig-29. So let's all I have for you in this episode
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