SHAH ALAM: RMAF Mig-29N – tail number M43-14 – has been officially disposed off by the service and it will be put up as one of the monuments at the Dataran Pahlawan Negara, Putrajaya. The Fulcrum will join other monuments at the site which is now the official site for celebrating Warriors Day.
Among the other monuments at the square are Sea Wolf missiles, two 40mm Bofors guns, a single Scorpion light tank, a Stormer AFV and two 105mm guns. It is unclear when the Fulcrum will be mounted at the square though.
Warriors Day was previously held at Tugu Negara in Kuala Lumpur, but it was replaced by the Dataran Pahlawan following an edict that the statues at the former was contrary to Islam, the official religion of the Federation.
The hand-over ceremony for the tail number 14 was signed at the Kuantan airbase today.
𝐒𝐄𝐁𝐔𝐀𝐇 𝐏𝐄𝐒𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐓 𝐌𝐈𝐆-𝟐𝟗𝐍 𝐀𝐊𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐊𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐄𝐁𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐈 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐇𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐍, 𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐉𝐀𝐘𝐀
KUANTAN, 17 Okt 24 – Komander Pangkalan Brig Jen Ahmad Edros bin Ahmad Osman TUDM telah menyaksikan serah terima dokumen 1 unit pesawat MiG-29N (M43-14) yang telah mendapat kelulusan pelupusan dan pesawat tersebut akan dijadikan monumen binaan kekal di Kompleks Dataran Pahlawan, Putrajaya.
Majlis yang berlangsung di Shelter No 17 Skn, Pu Kuantan telah menyaksikan tandatangan serah terima dokumen diantara Lt Kol Mohd Syahrul bin Eshahan TUDM, Ketua Cawangan Material dan Lt Kol Muhammad Zuraiman bin Abdul Ghani, Ketua Tim Nukleus.
Mengimbau kembali sejarah, TUDM telah menerima pesawat MiG-29UB Fulcrum dan MiG-29N Fulcrum pada tahun 1995. Pesawat ini merupakan versi khusus untuk Malaysia, yang dikenali dengan nama “MIG-29N”. MiG-29N merupakan sebahagian daripada usaha TUDM untuk memperkasa keupayaan pertahanan udara negara pada masa itu. Sepanjang perkhidmatanya, MiG-29N berjaya menjalankan tugasannya dengan baik sebagai pesawat pejuang yang mampu melaksanakan pelbagai misi.
The first Fulcrum to be a gate guard is M43-06 which is now at the Joint Force Headquarters camp in Kuantan. With the second Fulcrum, it is likely the rest of the fleet will also be sent out as gate guards as well.
— Malaysian Defence
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There use to be a 25 Pounder and a All 3 with its 20mm cannon at Muzium Negara. MINDEF had/has a M102 in chrome as a Gate guard. PUSMAS has a LIMBO [from Rahmatw]; a 20mm mount [from one of the Perkasas]; a Seawolf and Aspide. Have not been to the RMN museum but it has the Squid launcher from the 1st Hang Tuah. No idea what we did with the Bofors 375mm; Emerlecs and Cresiout Loire 100mm mounts; whether they’re in the museum.
If anyone asks; selling the Nuris and Fulcrums abroad is a slim possibility; both are not exactly rare. Shame though we didn’t preserve one of the Perkasa FPB and its SS11s and torps.