page_title: Mikoyan MiG-29K
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Mikoyan MiG-29K / Operators
caption_attribution_description: English: Mikoyan MiG-29K Operators 2010
context_page_description: The Mikoyan MiG-29K is a Russian all-weather carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft developed by the Mikoyan Design Bureau. The MiG-29K was developed in the late 1980s from the MiG-29M. Mikoyan describes it as a 4+ generation aircraft.
  Production standard MiG-29Ks differ from prototypes in features such as a multi-function radar and several new cockpit displays; the adoption of HOTAS controls; the integration of RVV-AE air-to-air missiles, along with missiles for anti-ship and anti-radar operations; and several ground/strike precision-guided weapons.
  The MiG-29K was not ordered into production and only two prototypes were originally built because the Russian Navy preferred the Su-27K in the early 1990s. Mikoyan did not stop its work on the MiG-29K aircraft despite the lack of financing since 1992. The programme got a boost in the late 1990s to meet an Indian requirement for a ship-borne fighter following the purchase of a former Soviet aircraft carrier, and the MiG-29K was first received by the Indian Naval Air Arm in 2009. The Russian Navy, with their Su-33s nearing the end of their service lives by 2010, has also ordered the MiG-29K as a replacement.
context_section_description:  India
  Indian Navy – 45 MiG-29K/KUB aircraft in its inventory. India ordered the fighters within the framework of two contract signing in 2004 and 2010. The last aircraft was delivered in February 2017.
  Indian Naval Air Arm
  300 Indian Naval Air Squadron – INS Hansa, Goa
  303 Indian Naval Air Squadron – INS Hansa, Goa
   Russia
  Russian Navy – ordered 20 MiG-29KR and 4 MiG-29KUBR in 2012. All the aircraft were delivered by early 2016.
  Russian Naval Aviation
  100th Independent Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment – Yeysk (air base), Krasnodar Krai
caption: MiG-29K operators in 2010
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