February 17, 2022
19:35
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From today until the end of March, our airspace will also be guarded by Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon fighters. The machines will partner with our MiG-29s in the Bulgarian sky. The Spanish aircraft is a fourth-generation multi-role fighter.
It is made in Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain. He flew for the first time in 1994, but his baptism of fire was in Libya in 2011, BTV reports.
Our MiG-29s will be used primarily in the protection of our skies. They are also fourth-generation multi-role fighters. Established in the former Soviet Union, the first flight of the MiG-29 was in 1977.
The flight ceiling of the MiG-29 is just over 18,000 meters. The maximum height that Eurofighter reaches is below 17,000 meters.
The MiG-29 also has much more serious combat experience – in the wars in the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia and Syria, for example. With one refueling MiG-29 travels up to 2100 kilometers. The range of Eurofighter is 2900 km.
The maximum speed reached by the Spanish fighters is over 2200 km / h, while our fighter jets develop almost 2500 km / h.
Both aircraft can be equipped with air-to-air missiles or weapons to hit ground targets.
