India integrates Israeli aerobalistic Rampage rocket to the MiG-29 fighter (photo)

Indian fighters will receive a 150 km rocket, which will make it possible to strike. The India's Ministry of Defense has announced the intention to equip the MiG-29 fighter jets of a large radius of action. About it reports Janes. For 12 months, the Indian Defense Ministry plans to complete the integration of Rampage missiles into the MiG-29. Certified bomb shelves have already been developed for this purpose.

"There is an urgent need to integrate the Air-Earth rocket to use the MiG-29 aircraft in full its operational potential," the department said. For this purpose it is necessary to design and develop an ejector (Bobm Rack), an electromechanical interface, as well as to undergo all certifications of the Center of Military Flight Suitability and Certification of CEMILAC/RCMA. The sources of the publication report that the Air Force wants the MiG-29 to get the task of long-range strikes.

Such integration has already been done for the MiG-29K in the Navy Maritime Aviation version. Rampage rocket is an aerobalist missile of Israeli Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems. In essence, it is an air version of an ammunition of Extra caliber 306 mm. The rocket is used on PULS RSZV. The weight of the combat part of the projectile is 150 kg, and the total weight is 570 kg. The combat part can be a fragile-fugitive with a combined guidance system: inertial and satellite navigation.