Interesting comment on Russian avionics?

[Bill Walker]

Don't have a date for this photo, but my source claims it shows a new MiG-29 on delivery to the Indian Navy. That is an off the shelf commercial Garmin GPS box inside the red circle.

 

[Avimimus]

I suppose they only support GLONASS by default?

If NATO lowers the resolution of the GPS signals (which they can do at will) it can lead to some precision targeting issues...

 

[Thiel]

Considering just how widespread DGPS is I'm not sure that's much of an issue anymore

 

[kcran567]

I thought I read somewhere that Navy F-14 pilots in the 1980's were using automotive radar (cop) detectors in their F-14s as a radar warning device. Maybe the Russians are using the GPS as a navigational aid or backup system. Either that or their aircraft avionics development is seriously underfunded.

 

[flateric]

Don't have a date for this photo, but my source claims it shows a new MiG-29 on delivery to the Indian Navy. That is an off the shelf commercial Garmin GPS box inside the red circle.

COTS. a cheap, easy, effective . typical Russian way of doing things, in short

 

[Avimimus]

It's a pity though - there is only analogue display left in these versions (it is on the right hand side of the cockpit - not visible in these photos). I always loved the redundance of the earlier models - and also the sense of continuity that it provides. Great if your faraday cage fails too!

 

[TaiidanTomcat]

It really could just be personal preference and the guy in the backseat flys around a lot in different aircraft and uses his own GPS. I have seen pilots take off other perfectly adequate GPSs to put "theirs" on and hand me the other pilots GPS with "give this to so and so-- its his"

So no big deal from where I am sitting.