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SYRIA

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Revised: August 2010

In service

Since 1987 up to day
Operational: no data, up to 22

Deliveries

In total: 22 MiGs in 1987 and 1988

Units

Sayqal air base (?)
Hamah air base (?)

Bort numbers

not known
Arabic numerals from 0 to 9: ??????????

Remarks

2000: rumours about Su-27.

2000: overhauls of 13 MiGs-23, spare parts for MiGs-29 and one new MiG-29 (total: 61 mln USD).

2003: unverified informations about modernization of 14 MiGs-29 to SMT and 6 MiGs-UB to UBT standard - MiGs from first (?) batch.
2005: unverified informations about modernization of 20 MiGs-29 to SMT/UBT standard - MiGs from second (?) batch.

2007/2008: new plans for huge deliveries to Syria.
2010: still rumours about new deliveries.

Early 2010 information from RSK MiG annual report 2009: in 2009 Syrian MiG were modernized and that a target for RSK MiG will be in year 2020 a sale to Syria MiGs-29M/M2.


The world's best secret - Syrian MiG-29.

Aircraft drawings © Mariusz Wojciechowski 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, S³upsk (Poland)