What share of formally available MiG-29 fleet Polish military brought out for such demonstration, and what specific details catch the eye at that.
Press service of Polish Air Force's 22nd Tactical Aviation Air Base published photos showing nine MiG-29 fighters on runway.
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Authors of accompanying text to publication noted specifically work of aviation technicians who still maintain these aircraft in service. From which one can specifically make initial conclusion that Polish Air Force at this moment supposedly is capable of simultaneously lifting into air nine of 14 formally still-available MiG-29s in service.
Such demonstration from Polish military occurs in context of bidding around further fate of these MiG-29 fleet, which should be withdrawn from Polish Air Force composition in 2027.
Because, for example, Bulgaria finally admitted they need Polish MiG-29s for spare parts, and there everything further depends on decision of Ukraine's military-political leadership. Meaning — whether our side will further develop story with exchanging MiG-29s from Poland for UAV technologies from Ukraine.
But if carefully examine these photos, we will see one specific nuance. Specifically — Polish MiG-29s in images stand with covers on air intakes, and under landing gear Authors of accompanying text to publication noted specifically work of aviation technicians who still maintain these aircraft in service. From which one can specifically make initial conclusion that Polish Air Force at this moment supposedly is capable of simultaneously lifting into air nine of 14 formally still-available MiG-29s in service.
Such demonstration from Polish military occurs in context of bidding around further fate of these MiG-29 fleet, which should be withdrawn from Polish Air Force composition in 2027.
Because, for example, Bulgaria finally admitted they need Polish MiG-29s for spare parts, and there everything further depends on decision of Ukraine's military-political leadership. Meaning — whether our side will further develop story with exchanging MiG-29s from Poland for UAV technologies from Ukraine.
But if carefully examine these photos, we will see one specific nuance. Specifically — Polish MiG-29s in images stand with covers on air intakes, and under landing gear struts stand chocks for blocking movement.
In other words — Poles for beautiful picture simply rolled out aircraft onto runway for static demonstration. Meaning in this case this hardly involves demonstration in vein of elephant walk, whose idea is to show impressive picture of sequential takeoff of maximum possible aircraft quantity.
Quite likely Polish military in this case considered static picture is quite sufficient to show goods at their best.
But on other hand, then mentioned photos in this publication can hardly be considered reliable confirmation of actual MiG-29 fleet condition, regarding which Poland conducts negotiations with Ukraine and Bulgaria simultaneously.
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