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A Hungarian MiG-21 on full burner. The MiG-21 is the subject of a number of upgrade programmes and proposals. This is little wonder since many of the estimated 11,500 built (plus thousands more produced in China as the J-7) remain in front line service.
Technology Explained – Fighter Upgrades Pt II
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Fighter Upgrades Part 2
The decline in defence budgets which has occurred since the collapse of the USSR, as well as the saturation of the fighter marketplace with second hand aircraft, have created a boom in the fighter upgrade business.
Systems integrators worldwide have taken advantage of the shift in the marketplace, and virtually no type in substantial use has escaped their attention. Part 2 examines the many upgrade programmes underway or being proposed in Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Asian and Asia-Pacific Upgrades
Asian air forces are largely equipped with Western equipment, if we disregard India, a long time Soviet customer, China, who reverse engineered a range of Soviet equipment, and North Korea and Vietnam. Both the North Koreans and Vietnamese are in questionable economic circumstances, while China’s continuing contempt for Western sensitivities about human rights has largely restricted access to their market.
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