{"id":50,"date":"2011-02-10T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:36:58","slug":"russia-may-deliver-first-upgraded-mig-to-india-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Russia may deliver first upgraded MiG to India in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia could deliver the first modernized MiG-29 fighter jet to India as early as in 2011, the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Wednesday.<br \/>\nIndia signed a $960 million contract with Russia in 2008 to upgrade its five squadrons of 69 MiG-29 fighters, which have been in service with the Indian Air Force (IAF) since mid-1980s.<br \/>\n&#8220;The first upgraded plane, I think, will be delivered in 2011,&#8221; Mikhail Pogosyan said on the sidelines of the Aero India 2011 air show, which opened on Wednesday in Bangalore.<br \/>\n&#8220;The whole upgrade program will be carried out on schedule agreed with the Indian side, and it will take several years to implement it,&#8221; Pogosyan said.<br \/>\nThe upgrades include a new avionics kit, with the N-109 radar being replaced by a Phazatron Zhuk-M radar. The aircraft is also being equipped to enhance beyond-visual-range combat ability and for air-to-air refueling to increase flying time.<br \/>\n10\/02\/11<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/mlitary_news\/20110209\/162522385.html\"> Ria Novosti<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia could deliver the first modernized MiG-29 fighter jet to India as early as in 2011, the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said on Wednesday. India signed a $960 million contract with Russia in 2008 to upgrade its five squadrons of 69 MiG-29 fighters, which have been in service with the Indian Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,54,47],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-defence","tag-mig-29","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}