DefenceTalkSorry for the delay, but Episode 1 part of the CAB Show is finally here!https://www.defencetalk.com/cab-show-episode-1-part-2-f-15-vs-su-27-f-16-f-18-vs-mig-29-and-f-22-vs-t-50-pak-fa-62139/

DefenceTalkOn January 8 four MiG-29 fighters of the Polish Air Force will land at the Lithuanian Air Force Base at Šiauliai to join the Baltic Air Policing Mission. The Polish contribution will reinforce the mission carried out an Italian air contingent. The new Poland’s contingent will arrive from their permanent base at the 23rd Tactical […]https://www.defencetalk.com/four-polish-mig-29s-deploy-to-lithuania-61822/

DefenceTalkA fighter jet crashed in southern Russia on Sunday, killing the pilot, the head of the air force told Russian news agencies, blaming a technical fault. “An accident took place and the pilot died,” General Viktor Bondarev said, quoted by the Interfax news agency. “We are working out what happened. According to initial data, the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-fighter-jet-crashes-killing-pilot-60269/

DefenceTalkThe Russian Defense Ministry has signed a $470 million contract with the MiG corporation for the delivery of 16 advanced MiG-29 SMT fighters, the ministry said Tuesday. The company had earlier confirmed the deal in an interview with RIA Novosti, but did not specify its value. “The value of the contract, including the ground support […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-air-force-to-receive-16-new-mig-fighters-59314/

DefenceTalkSeveral mothballed Mikoyan Mig-29 Fulcrum fourth-generation fighter jets were returned to combat service in western Ukraine, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. “Specialists of our team have already returned several planes to service,” the ministry quoted an unnamed commander of an Air Force unit near Ivano-Frankivsk as saying. “We are now conducting test flights. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ukraine-puts-mothballed-mig-29-fighter-jets-back-in-service-59228/

DefenceTalkAn Indian MiG-29 naval jet landed on a refitted former Soviet aircraft carrier Friday, marking the first such operation since the ship was delivered by Russia to the south Asian nation earlier this year. “An exciting event took place today – the first landing of an [Indian] MiG-29 piloted by an Indian pilot on the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-indian-mig-29-fighter-jet-lands-on-vikramaditya-50685/

DefenceTalkThe Russian navy has taken delivery of its first four series-produced MiG-29K/KUB carrier based fighter jets, the Defense Ministry said Monday. “The MiG aircraft-manufacturing corporation has handed over two MiG-29K single-seat and two MiG-29KUB twin-seat carrier-based fighter aircraft,” a spokesman said. The Russian Defense Ministry signed a contract with MiG in February 2012 for delivery […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-navy-gets-new-carrier-based-fighters-49745/

DefenceTalkThe Russian Defense Ministry and the MiG aircraft corporation have agreed the purchase of 16 MiG-29SMT fighter jets until 2016, the Kommersant daily reported Tuesday citing a high-ranking military source. The agreement is part of the government’s effort to keep the struggling combat aircraft maker afloat following the announced delay of the contract on the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-military-to-buy-16-mig-29smt-fighter-jets-report-48810/

DefenceTalkRussia and Peru will sign a contract to upgrade Lima’s fleet of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters by the end of May, Konstantin Biryulin, deputy head of Russia’s Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service, said on Monday. Belarus sold around twenty of the fighter jets to Peru in 1997. Peru signed a contract in 2008 for Russia’s UAC […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-peru-to-sign-mig-29-jet-upgrade-deal-47837/

DefenceTalkRussia said Wednesday it was delivering military hardware and light weapons to the governments of Syria and Mali as it expands sales and maintains its footing in some of the world’s deadliest conflicts. The head of Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport, Anatoly Isaikin, said Russian deliveries to the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad included air […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-says-supplying-syria-mali-with-arms-46792/