Rob.Posinski@p0.f4.n391.z8.uafcveg.uark.edu (Rob Posinski) (08/21/90)
From: Rob.Posinski@p0.f4.n391.z8.uafcveg.uark.edu (Rob Posinski) Can someone get me a Thrust-to-Weight Ratio on the Mig-29? Can it keep up with the F-16 Falcon in an accelerating climb of 45degrees plus? Has anybody gotten wind of a new improved version of the Mig-29 being in the works? -- Rob Posinski - via FidoNet node 8:391/12 UUCP: uafcveg!tprs!4.0!Rob.Posinski INTERNET: Rob.Posinski@p0.f4.n391.z8.uafcveg.uark.edu
deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman) (09/02/90)
From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman) In article <1990Aug21.025319.2171@cbnews.att.com> Rob.Posinski@p0.f4.n391.z8.uafcveg.uark.edu (Rob Posinski) writes: > >Can someone get me a Thrust-to-Weight Ratio on the Mig-29? Can it keep up with the F-16 Falcon in an accelerating climb of 45degrees plus? >-- The MiG-29's two engines are each capable of providing 18,300 pounds of static thrust with afterburning. The maximum takeoff weight of the MiG is approximately 36,000 pounds, so a thrust-to-weight ratio could be infer- red to be just over 1.0. As for its climb rate -- it has a maximum climb rate of 50,000 feet in one minute; The F-16A and F/A-18A each have a rate of 40,000 feet/min. The Dassault-Bregnot Mirage 2000C and the MiG-21 'Fishbed-L' have a rate of about 56,000 feet/min. The MiG-30 is an export version of the MiG-29 (just a -29 with the avionics from a MiG-23), and is believed to have been delivered to Syria. Give it a higher number and the Third World thinks it's getting a deal! [Source: "The World's Great Interceptor Aircraft, 1989", from Gallery Books of W.H. Smith Publishers, Inc., New York, NY.] |/|/|/|/| | | | | | (o o) "I'm outta here, man!" C _) / | ,___/ ________/ | / /______ -shane d deichman "...The Ayatollah of Rock-and-Rollah!"