Aircraft
Myanmar MiG-29 Upgrade Revealed: Will Malaysia Follow?
Low-cost mods retain the fighter’s original radar, but offer airframe lifetime extensions.
A MiG-29 of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) takes off at the LIMA airshow in 2013. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)
A MiG-29 of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) takes off at the LIMA airshow in 2013. (Photo: Vladimir Karnozov)

Ten MiG-29 fighters belonging to the Myanmar air force have been upgraded at RAC MiG facilities near Moscow, a source in the Russian delegation at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) 2017 show in Malaysia last week told AIN. Moscow is now offering similar upgrades to Malaysia, which acquired 18 in 1994, and to Bangladesh, which procured 10 MiG-29s at the turn of the century.

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