Confirmed contract with Egypt on the MiG-29M / M2
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February 6th, 3:16

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As was reported on February 5, 2016 by RIA Novosti news agency, JSC "Rosoboronexport" in April 2015 concluded "with one of the countries of North Africa" ​​[Egypt - bmpd] contract for the supply of "more than 50" MiG-29M / M2 of new construction, the first two of the aircraft are to be shipped by the end of 2016.

This was stated by Deputy Director General of JSC "Russian Aircraft Corporation" MiG "Alexei Beskibalov when he arrived in Nizhny Novgorod to participate in the celebrations dedicated to the 84th anniversary of the formation of the Nizhny Novgorod aircraft building plant" Sokol "(entered in the RAC" MiG ").

The prototype of the MiG-29M2 (MiG-35, 9-67 type, tail number "747"). Zhukovsky, 08/27/2015 (s) Vladislav Perminov / russianplanes.net (link)

The report from RIA Novosti:

"Russian Aircraft Corporation" MiG "plans this year to deliver the first two MiG-29M / M2 for the customer from North Africa, said the deputy director general of the corporation Alexey Beskibalov.

He arrived in Nizhny Novgorod to participate in Friday's celebrations to mark the 84th anniversary of the formation of the aircraft building plant "Sokol".

"Rosoboronexport has signed the largest contract in the history of military-technical cooperation, for more than 50 MiG-29M / M2 ... It loads the power of our combined businesses and Lukhovitsy, and Nizhny Novgorod until 2020," - he said, adding The contract was signed in April 2015, and the customer - one of the countries of North Africa.

According to him, "this contract is already acting on received advance" and "organized funding and the Nizhny Novgorod plant". "We will the first two aircraft ship later this year", - he added Beskibalov ".

Co sides bmpd note that for the first time in the public domain on the harmonization of the contract for the supply of 46 MiG-29M / M2 Egypt (perhaps the number "46" corresponds to the number of ordered single-seat fighters, excluding "sparok") announced in May 2015. Alexei Nikolsky in article "Egypt loads of Russians work. Agreed contract to supply 46 MiG-29 fighter jets to Egypt. It opens up new prospects in front of one of the most famous Russian companies in the world" in the newspaper "Vedomosti".

Tags: Egypt, MiG-29, MiG-35, Russia, aircraft, military-technical cooperation

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Some experts coment:

--M version has a refined airtframe, upper secondary intake is removed and more fuel tank installed there and also in the airframe so there is no need for the ugly hump uf upgraded SMT's.
Still Mig-29M is a generic term, probably they are K' carrier versions airframes with some adjustments for land only use. My guess is that they will also have folding wings and be dual sitters airframes with a fuel tank in the second seat.
Something like that

--The MiG 29M/M2 also known as 9-67 is the prototype of the MiG 35.
As such, there could be little difference between the 2 save names,
or said otherwise, these could be 35s! Even the article mentions it!

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And so on

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