Mikoyan MiG-29M

what is it?

The Mikoyan MiG-29M (Russian: Микоян МиГ-29M; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum-E) is a Russian multirole fighter that first flew in 2005. The unified platform that is the MiG-29 is now comprised by the MiG-29M and a naval carrier variant, the MiG-29K. A direct predecessor of the MiG-29M, sometimes known informally as the "MiG-33", was developed by the Mikoyan design bureau in the mid-1980s.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · 12 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 2,100 km/htop speed
• range 2,000 kmwithout refuelling
• size 26.5 tmax take-off weight
• built 6made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 40 years ago, in 1986.
• 🏎️Top speed is 16.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 💥Faster than sound: up to Mach 1.7 (sea-level speed of sound ≈ 1,235 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 12 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 2,000 km: 11× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.8× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1986-04-26

introduced

2017

status

still flying

number built

6

role

multirole fighter

origin

🇷🇺 Russia

makers

Sokol

engines

2× Klimov RD-33MK

crew

1

length

17.4 m

wingspan

12 m

height

4.4 m

max take-off weight

26.5 t

top speed

2,100 km/h

range

2,000 km

ceiling

16,000 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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