Another clue on Egypt’s purchase of MiG-35s

An annual report from Chernyshev Moscow Machine-Building Enterprise revealed that the manufacturer of the RD-33MK jet engine received an order for 92 of those engines in November 2015. It is speculated that the engines are meant for Egypt’s order of 46 MiG-35s.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35D, Russia - Air Force AN1583193
By Oleg V. Belyakov – AirTeamImages [CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons

The report further added that the engines will be delivered between 2016 to 2018.