MIG-27 - Bahadur
Origin: Russia.
NATO Codename: Flogger.
Indian Name: Bahadur (Brave).
Type: Variable sweep attack fighter.
Current versions in IAF service: ML; Single-seat, variable geometry, fighter ground attack.
Number Procured: 165 Produced by HAL Ozhar (License for 188 MiG-27s with an option for 50 more)
........................1st Ac (TS-501) delivered Sept 1984
........................100th Ac (TS-600) delivered on 2 May 1992
........................165th Ac (TS-665) delivered March 1997
Units Equipped:
........................No.2 Squadron "Winged Arrows"
........................No.9 Squadron "Wolfpacks" (Converting to Mirage 2000TH)
........................No.10 Squadron "Winged Daggers"
........................No.18 Squadron "Flying Bullets"
........................No. 22 Squadron "Swifts"
........................No. 29 Squadron "Scorpions"
........................No. 222 Squadrons "Tigersharks"
........................TACDE Squadron
Design Features: Has a shoulder wing variable geometry configuration. 2 hydraulic wing sweep motors driven separately by main and control booster systems. If one system fails, wing sweep system remains effective at 50% normal angular velocity. The wings can move back to 72ยบ to perform fast low level attacks. The rear fuselage is fully detachable between the wing and the tail plane for engine servicing.
Accommodation: Pilot only on KM-1M ejection seat in an air-conditioned and pressurised cockpit. Has a bulletproof windscreen.
Avionics: One transponder and a 16-item vocal warning system. Also has an automatic flight control system, an angle of attack indicator, a radio altimeter, a navigation and attack system, a rangefinder and a bullet shaped antennae above each pylon associated with missile guidance. The stub-shaped nose has an in-built laser guidance system for accurate bombing.
Engine: One R-29B-300 turbojet rated at 25,353 lbs. of maximum thrust.
Maximum Speed: Mach 1.7
Service Ceiling: 14,000 meters; 45,000 feet
Combat Radius: With two Kh-29L/T ASMs and 7% fuel reserves - 225km; 140 miles. With two Kh-29L/T ASMs, two R-60MK AAMs and three 790L fuel tanks - 540km; 335 miles.
G limit: +7.0
Armament: One six barelled 30mm GSh-30 gun in the fuselage belly pack with 260 rounds. A bomb rack is fitted on each side of the rear fuselage. Five other pylons can carry air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, 57mm and 240mm rocket pods, napalm and even a tactical nuclear payload.
Maximum External Stores Load: 4000 kg; 8818 lbs.
Self Defence: Infra-Red jammer and radar warning receiver.
Comments: The MiG-27ML forms 7 operational squadrons and is also part of TACDE (Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment). An upgrade program, reportedly similar to the MiG-21 upgrade, is underway and will keep the MiG-27 viable well into the first quarter of the 21st century.
The upgrade is being undertaken by HAL Ozhar Division, the Defence Avionics Research Establishment [DARE] and CEMILAC/DGAQA. The first aircraft to be upgraded is TS-640 which was recieved by Nasik in May 2002. The aircraft was upgraded and first flown by HAL on 25th March 2004 and has been given to the ASTE in April 2004.
The upgrade will oversee the integration of the following technologies and components into the aircraft:-
» VRS Mission Computer
» Laser Designator Pod and New Weapons
» Multi Function Display Unit in the cockpit [MFD665]
» Radar Warning Reciever with Display Unit in Cockpit
» Head Up Display [HUD] with Up Front Control Panel [UFCP]
» Air to Air Refuelling Probe
» Upgraded Radio / Electronic Warfare System
» Laser Ranging and Marked Target Seeker [LRMTS]
» VOR/ILS System
» Solid State Flight Data Recorder [SSFDR]
» Chaff/Flare counter measure Dispensing system [CMDS]
Indian Name: Bahadur (Brave).
Type: Variable sweep attack fighter.
Current versions in IAF service: ML; Single-seat, variable geometry, fighter ground attack.
Number Procured: 165 Produced by HAL Ozhar (License for 188 MiG-27s with an option for 50 more)
........................1st Ac (TS-501) delivered Sept 1984
........................100th Ac (TS-600) delivered on 2 May 1992
........................165th Ac (TS-665) delivered March 1997
Units Equipped:
........................No.2 Squadron "Winged Arrows"
........................No.9 Squadron "Wolfpacks" (Converting to Mirage 2000TH)
........................No.10 Squadron "Winged Daggers"
........................No.18 Squadron "Flying Bullets"
........................No. 22 Squadron "Swifts"
........................No. 29 Squadron "Scorpions"
........................No. 222 Squadrons "Tigersharks"
........................TACDE Squadron
Design Features: Has a shoulder wing variable geometry configuration. 2 hydraulic wing sweep motors driven separately by main and control booster systems. If one system fails, wing sweep system remains effective at 50% normal angular velocity. The wings can move back to 72ยบ to perform fast low level attacks. The rear fuselage is fully detachable between the wing and the tail plane for engine servicing.
Accommodation: Pilot only on KM-1M ejection seat in an air-conditioned and pressurised cockpit. Has a bulletproof windscreen.
Avionics: One transponder and a 16-item vocal warning system. Also has an automatic flight control system, an angle of attack indicator, a radio altimeter, a navigation and attack system, a rangefinder and a bullet shaped antennae above each pylon associated with missile guidance. The stub-shaped nose has an in-built laser guidance system for accurate bombing.
Engine: One R-29B-300 turbojet rated at 25,353 lbs. of maximum thrust.
Maximum Speed: Mach 1.7
Service Ceiling: 14,000 meters; 45,000 feet
Combat Radius: With two Kh-29L/T ASMs and 7% fuel reserves - 225km; 140 miles. With two Kh-29L/T ASMs, two R-60MK AAMs and three 790L fuel tanks - 540km; 335 miles.
G limit: +7.0
Armament: One six barelled 30mm GSh-30 gun in the fuselage belly pack with 260 rounds. A bomb rack is fitted on each side of the rear fuselage. Five other pylons can carry air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, 57mm and 240mm rocket pods, napalm and even a tactical nuclear payload.
Maximum External Stores Load: 4000 kg; 8818 lbs.
Self Defence: Infra-Red jammer and radar warning receiver.
Comments: The MiG-27ML forms 7 operational squadrons and is also part of TACDE (Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment). An upgrade program, reportedly similar to the MiG-21 upgrade, is underway and will keep the MiG-27 viable well into the first quarter of the 21st century.
The upgrade is being undertaken by HAL Ozhar Division, the Defence Avionics Research Establishment [DARE] and CEMILAC/DGAQA. The first aircraft to be upgraded is TS-640 which was recieved by Nasik in May 2002. The aircraft was upgraded and first flown by HAL on 25th March 2004 and has been given to the ASTE in April 2004.
The upgrade will oversee the integration of the following technologies and components into the aircraft:-
» VRS Mission Computer
» Laser Designator Pod and New Weapons
» Multi Function Display Unit in the cockpit [MFD665]
» Radar Warning Reciever with Display Unit in Cockpit
» Head Up Display [HUD] with Up Front Control Panel [UFCP]
» Air to Air Refuelling Probe
» Upgraded Radio / Electronic Warfare System
» Laser Ranging and Marked Target Seeker [LRMTS]
» VOR/ILS System
» Solid State Flight Data Recorder [SSFDR]
» Chaff/Flare counter measure Dispensing system [CMDS]
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