A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum was given a shark mouth, a type of nose art often applied to aircraft flying in the SEAD role.
Some interesting images first shared online on Jan. 23, 2024, by the WarBirdCrew Telegram Channel, show a Ukrainian MiG-29 with a high-visibility shark mouth nose art.
Interestingly, the same aircraft appears to carry live AGM-88 HARM (High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile), a type of missile used to attack the radar of a SAM (Surface to Air Missile) in a typical SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense) mission. The missile, previously employed by three NATO aircraft types only, the Tornado ECR, the F-16CM Block 50 and the F/A-18-EA-18G, was delivered by the U.S. to the Ukrainian Air Force back in the summer 2022, and integrated on the MiG-29 to enhance its SEAD capabilities, and later on the Su-27 too.
Seen here armed with a US-supplied AGM-88 HARM.
Source- https://t.co/h5oAjog1H0 pic.twitter.com/7fqsbgYFYq
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) January 27, 2024
While its origins date back to WWI, the shark mouth has become a symbol of the SEAD role since the Vietnam War. Many combat aircraft hunting enemy radars with anti-radiation missiles have sported a shark mouth since a tradition that started with the F-105G tasked with the “Wild Weasel” role in SEA (South East Asia). Several units of the U.S. Air Force flying the F-4Gs and F-16Cs in the SEAD role as well as the U.S. Navy EA-6Bs and the Italian Air Force Tornado ECRs (just to name but few) have sported or still sport nowadays either a high-viz or a low-visibility sharkmouth.
As for Ukraine’s MiG-29s, the Ukrainian Air Force has already adorned its Fulcrum jets with a shark mouth in the past: at least one MiG-29 Fulcrum-C (25 White) of the 92nd Istrebitel’nyy Aviatsionnyy Polk (IAP; Fighter Aviation Regiment), at Vasylkiv Air Base near Kyiv, sported the peculiar nose art according to the book MiG-29 & MiG-35 by Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov. Arguably, other Ukrainian MiG-29s had the shark mouth too.
- SEO Powered Content & PR Distribution. Get Amplified Today.
- PlatoData.Network Vertical Generative Ai. Empower Yourself. Access Here.
- PlatoAiStream. Web3 Intelligence. Knowledge Amplified. Access Here.
- PlatoESG. Carbon, CleanTech, Energy, Environment, Solar, Waste Management. Access Here.
- PlatoHealth. Biotech and Clinical Trials Intelligence. Access Here.
- Source: https://theaviationist.com/2024/01/29/ukrainian-mig-29-shark-mouth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ukrainian-mig-29-shark-mouth
- :has
- :is
- 125
- 1996
- 2022
- 2024
- 23
- 25
- 27
- 2nd
- 50
- a
- According
- AIR
- Air Force
- aircraft
- already
- and
- appears
- applied
- arguably
- armed
- Art
- AS
- asia
- At
- attack
- Australia
- avatar
- aviation
- back
- base
- based
- become
- Block
- blogs
- book
- Books
- but
- by
- carry
- Channel
- combat
- computer
- Computer Engineering
- contributed
- covering
- credit
- Crime
- Date
- David
- Defense
- delivered
- different
- East
- editor
- either
- employed
- end
- Engineering
- enhance
- Ether (ETH)
- Europe
- famous
- few
- First
- five
- flying
- For
- Force
- Forces
- Former
- founder
- from
- given
- gordon
- graduate
- had
- harm
- Have
- he
- here
- High
- HTTPS
- Hunting
- image
- images
- in
- Including
- industry
- integrated
- Intelligence
- interesting
- Italian
- Italy
- ITS
- Jan
- Jets
- journalist
- just
- later
- least
- live
- magazines
- major
- many
- Military
- missiles
- Mission
- monthly
- more
- most
- mouth
- name
- Near
- New
- nose
- now
- of
- often
- on
- ONE
- ones
- online
- only
- or
- origins
- Other
- Others
- past
- peculiar
- photo
- pilot
- Planes
- plato
- Plato Data Intelligence
- PlatoData
- previously
- private
- radar
- Read
- Reported
- restored
- Role
- rome
- s
- Sam
- same
- SEA
- several
- shared
- Shark
- show
- since
- South
- south east asia
- speed
- Sport
- sporting
- started
- Still
- summer
- suppression
- Surface
- symbol
- Syria
- Telegram
- that
- The
- three
- to
- too
- tornado
- tradition
- type
- types
- typical
- u.s.
- U.S. Air Force
- U.S. Navy
- Ukraines
- Ukrainian
- units
- used
- Vietnam
- war
- was
- WELL
- white
- with
- world’s
- worldwide
- written
- zephyrnet