TV channel “Zvezda” posted a footage of SU-33 & MiG-29KUB landings & takeoffs from the aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov”

The Su-33 aeroplane has been developed on the platform of the Su-27; it is manufactured in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

The Su-33 is a single-seat ship-based STOBAR fighter, with upward folding wings and horizontal tail surfaces (for hangar storage); it is equipped with probe-and-drogue flight refuelling capability. The Su-33 is designed for defence of naval ships from aerial threats.

Both the MiG-29K (single seat) and MiG-29KUB (double seat) aircraft  are the “4++” generation multi-role fighters intended for air-defense missions of naval forces, air superiority gaining, sea & ground targets destruction with the high precision guided weapons day and night and in any weather conditions.

The MiG-29K/KUB carrier-based fighters are the basic aircraft of a new unified family including also the MiG-29M/M2 and MiG-35/MiG-35D aircraft.

The MiG-29K/KUB aircraft are based on the aircraft-carriers with tonnage from 28,000 tons, equipped with take-off ramp and landing arrestor, as well as at the airfields.

Main technical and technological innovations, applied on the MiG-29K/KUB fighters are the following:

– improved airframe with about 15% composite materials application;

– folding wing with upgraded high-lift devices improving take-off/landing performance;

– fly-by-wire control system with quadruple redundancy;

– significantly reduced signature in radar range;

– increased weapons load, stored at eight external hard points;

– increased internal fuel capacity and in-flight refueling possibility;

– possibility of other aircraft refueling being equipped with “PAZ-1MK” refueling unit.