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can mistaken between the two Mikoyan fighter bombers, Mig-23, and Mig-27.
Similiar to Mig-23, Mig-27 - a Russian fighter bomber aircraft - is a variable
geometry wing aircraft. The primary mission is to destroy moving
and stationary, fixed and mobile ground targerts including hardened targets.
Mig-27K, a variants of Flogger, is equipped with PrNK-23K integrated navigation
and aiming system which consists of an Orbita - 20 - 23K airborne digital
computer, and optical television indicator with Kaira - 1 laser and television
sighting system. Mig-27 can carry three types of air-to-surface missle:
Kh-23M (AS-7 Kerry), Kh-25ML (AS-12 Kegler), and Kh-29L (AS-14 Kedge).
The Kh-25ML is laser guided ait-to-surface missle. The missle has
a semi-active laser homing head with the range between 2.5 km to 10 km,
the speed up to 400 -450 metres per second. Besides the aircraft
can carry some laser and TV guided bombs like KAB-500L and KAB-500KR.
Like Mig-23, it also rely on R-60 air-to-air missle to defense itself against
enemies, but with more advance version - R-60M. The missle can engage
the manoeuvering target up to 12g. Mig-27K aircraft is equipped with
a modern electronic countermeasures suite including a new passive jamming
system.
Technical information:
Manufacture
Mikoyan Gurevich OKB
Designation
Mig-27
Nato Code
Flogger
Type
Fighter bomber
Crew
One
Length
16.6 m
Height
5 m
Wingspan
14.26 m
Wingarea
34.2 m^2
Empty weight
26,252 lbs
Max weight
44,750 lbs
Engines
One
Power plant
Soyuz/Khachaturov R-29B-300
Thrust (each)
25,335 lbs
range
1500 km
Ceiling
15240m
Mig-27
- Flogger from above
R-60M
short range air-to-air missle