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Mig-35 photos from Air India 2007

By Pavel | March 21, 2007 on 5:33 pm | In Exhibitions, MiG-35, Mikoyan |

Enjoy great Mig-35 photos made by Sergey Kuznetsov during his Air India 2007 airshow visit.
It was first official international Mig-35 presentation, so it worth to see.

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Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

Comment by MrSatyre — March 21, 2007 #
So… this is basically the military version of the ‘29-OVT right?

Comment by Kasperl — March 21, 2007 #
Awesome shots, awesome crew, awesome plane!!!

I love the various close-up shots, especially the FLIR.

Comment by Steve — March 21, 2007 #
Kasperl, actually no. Question is not correct, Mig-35 is not ’simply Mig-29OVT but without OVT’.

Mig-29OVT is just Mig-29M-based frame for the OVT engine demonstration, no radars, no nothing.

Mig-35 is the two-seater fighter for the Indian medium fighter tender with great new avionics including AFAR Zhuk. And no OVT engine, btw.

Comment by Pavel — March 22, 2007 #
Does anybody know will mig-35 enter service with russian air force. I mean will Russian air force buy mig-35 or they will wait on 5th generation PAK-FA.

Comment by nedim — March 23, 2007 #
According to this: “…Mikhailov is absolutely convinced that MiG-35 will be very wanted both by Russian Air Forces and…” (source: Russian Air Force fleet will be renovated by 2020) it is very possible.

Comment by Pavel — March 23, 2007 #
Very nice photos and very, very nice fighter. All the best to Aviapedia and MIG.

Comment by Sergio PALAMA' — March 27, 2007 #
Pavel, thank you for your interest in this subject. But in South America maybe have confusion respect to the Mig 35 htis airplain exist or no to the production.
¡ gracias ! ,Peru

Comment by franky0805 — March 28, 2007 #
very nice but its not that good if MIg want to stand to the current Fighters its should come with a fighter at leats like F22 JSF, or S47, not an advance version of MIG 29 …..!!!!!!

Comment by jafar — March 30, 2007 #
Pavel, from what I read in “Airforces Monthly” the MiG-35 was actually designed for the IAF requirements (ie to make it more attractive to the IAF.) But it does not mean the RusAf will not want the type, albeit in a much more advanced form, with the TVC (OVT) in place.

Comment by hawk — March 30, 2007 #
i love this aircraft. i wonder though, if the Russian air force is to buy this aircraft, how it preforms compared to the su-35 (or the latest versions of the su-30 like MKI) that the russians supposedly already produced? remember that the Russikis are planing to replace their old mig-29s and su-27 with the “PAK FA” (Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsyi => Future Air Complex for Tactical Air Forces) fighter within less than a decade from now..

respect and regards form argentina, sebastián.

Comment by sebastián — March 31, 2007 #
hawk - yes, exactly. This plane is for IAF medium fighter tender. And as I said - Mikhailov is very positive to see this plane in RusAF. But still - no exact orders for now.

Comment by Pavel — April 2, 2007 #
this is very..very great plane.awesome

Comment by Rayhan — August 7, 2007 #
2 great countries and 1 great machine
its seems its truely built to an ACE maker!!!!!!

Comment by Rahul R Sharma — September 2, 2007 #
great fighter!!!but still same with old design..
i expect more with this plane,hope can compare to raptor,jsf and europe.

Comment by shah — September 8, 2007 #
Making the best use of a airframe that has been proven. I like that, hats off Mikoyan.

Comment by Sukio — September 25, 2007 #
Mig-35 would be a good match for f-16, f-15s and f-18s jets, as cute as it may look however, there are more to it than meets the eye, the Mig would be no match to the YF-22 Raptor.

Comment by sonny — October 27, 2007 #
its a great aircraft! but can anyone tell me whether the IAF will buy this plane?

Comment by aveek — November 5, 2007 #
The MiG-35 looks like a beautiful fighter, and can easily whoop on the F-15 and F-18s. However, it’s just not enough.

Comment by Iceman — November 17, 2007 #
Mig-35 looks like a sexy lingerie. it seems sleek,sexy

Comment by himanshu — November 22, 2007 #
Hey man, wonderful..I’ve always been an admirer of MiGs….They rock man…They seriousy are the best……..

Comment by Mayur — December 23, 2007 #
Would like to inform Hawk and Sebastian that the SU 30 MKI with TVC was introduced into the Indian Air Force a couple of years ago. #20, Lightining squadron being the recepients and are also the first operational fighter squadron in the whole wide world to use TVC controlled fighters. Mind you, it takes much less than these MKI’s to whop the asses of USAF F15c and F16 block50 as demonstrated in various exercises conducted between these two air forces.
Jacob.

Comment by Jacob — March 14, 2008 #
This airframe looks the same as the MIG 29. A very good fighter which has beaten the F15 Eagle in exercises. However, lets not forget that to date, no F15has ever been lost in combat. Even though the F15 is now an old aircraft it is still good. Is it correct that new electronics in the MIG 35 makes existing stealth obsolete. The USA is currently working on cloaking which not so long agom was strictly sci-fi.

Comment by Len Partner — March 20, 2008 #
What is its approximate cost…???

Comment by Jonathan — April 14, 2008 #
VERY GOOD PLANE.

Comment by ABR — May 9, 2008 #
i think india should buy this jet over eurofighter or F16 or rafale. this is one superb russian engineering genius! Mig-29 is a proven short range combat fighter and can beat any other jet of modern time. the reason F16 or F15 have never been destroyed in combat is because USA or Israel have fought war with F16 only against forces which either did not have airforce or a very old one. and Turkey did not enter into a big war involving air superiority conflict. most important thing is Indian Mig-29 in kargil war almost locked on an escaping pakistani F16, which managed to escape only because the Mig29 was ordered to retreat. India should definitely buy the Mig-35(it’s whole new story than Mig-21)

Comment by rommel — June 7, 2008 #
yaa it truly dreams flying machine

Comment by suhada — July 18, 2008 #
Sick ass plane. does it come in black

Comment by Javier — September 4, 2008 #