Main page "Colours ot the MiG-29 (Fulcrum)"

Revised: February 2018

KAZAKHSTAN

Қазақстан Республикасы / Qazaqstan Respulïkası (Republic of Kazakhstan)

In service

Қазақстан Республикасы Қарулы Күштерінің Әуе қорғанысы күштері (Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan) since 1995

Deliveries

1995: 40 MiG-29 (early 9-12 and 9-12) and MiG-29UB* (9-51) from Russia
In total 40 MiGs in 1995
Local name are МиГ-29 and МиГ-29УБ

Losses:
1996: 2 MiG-29 returned to Russia (why?)
1996: 1 MiG-29 sold to Yemen
2008: 1 MiG-29UB crashed near Almaty during training flight, one pilot died.

Former Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, independence in 1991. Kazakhstan obtained Su-27 and MiG-29 (40) from Russia as a form of payment for Russian debts, also for using by Russia the Baykonur space centre and for the Tu-95MS from Semipalatinsk air base returning to Russia.

MiGs were delivered to Kazakhstan from Lugovaya air base in Kirgistan (715th Fighter Air Regiment) where they were stored for few years, since the end of the USSR. It was all 9-12 and 9-51 variants. Some of the 9-12 are very old - it's the aircraft from first production series!

Aircraft were overhauled and repainted, probably in 1995 and about 2003.

Since the end of 2009 MiGs are overhauled and repainted (new scheme) in Ukrainian Львівський Державний авіаційно-ремонтний завод "ЛДАРЗ" (Lviv State Air Repair Plant "LDARZ"). Maybe slightly modernized, equipped with satellite navigation system. First overhauled MiG-29 no. 12 and MiG-29UB no. 40.

Units

600th Air Base (Military Unit 65229, former 715th regiment) in Жетыген (Zhetygen near Almaty, former Russian Nikolayevka).

In Zhetygen there's also 149th regiment equipped with Su-24.
Other Kazakh air bases: 602nd Chimkent (Su-17, Su-25), 604th Taldykorgan (MiG-27, Su-27), 610th Sary-Arka airport, Karaganda (MiG-31).

Numbers

MiG-29: 01 02 03 04 09 10 11 12
MiG-29UB: 23 24 25
Overhauled since December 2009
MiG-29: 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
MiG-29UB: 40 41 42 44 45

Camouflage and painting


MiG-29 no. 04, Kazakhstan, 2003. MiG-29 (9.13) from early production series (only about 30 was built!) with different that standard anti-static conductor rods on rudders, dorsal fins and no chaff/flare dispensers. Each aircraft (also trainers) has a different pattern of camouflage. Drawing accuracy: shapes on upper surfaces are hipothetical.


MiG-29 no. 12, Kazakhstan, December 2009. Overhauled and repainted in Lviv.
First public appearance in KADEX-2010 defence exhibition, June 2010, Astana. Each overhauled aircraft has a different pattern of camouflage. Drawing accuracy: shapes on rear parts of the wings and between fins are hipothetical.


MiG-29UB #40, Kazakhstan, December 2009. Overhauled and repainted in Lviv. Drawing accuracy: OK.

Mariusz Wojciechowski MiG-29 in colours Colours of the MiG-29 (МиГ-29).
Worldwide aircraft Mikoyan & Gurevich MiG-29 (Fulcrum) camouflage and painting schemes

MiG-29 MiG-29S MiG-29UB MiG-29M MiG-29M2 MiG-29UBT MiG-29SD MiG-29N MiG-29NUB MiG-29K MiG-29KUB
MiG-29AS MiG-29G MiG-29GT MiG-29BM MiG-29SM MiG-29SE MiG-29SMT MiG-29UPG MiG-29SMP MiG-29OVT MiG-35

All aircraft drawings © Mariusz Wojciechowski 2005-2018, Słupsk (Poland) mariusz@mariwoj.pl
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