{"id":48298,"date":"2022-08-15T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48298"},"modified":"2025-08-15T00:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:34:16","slug":"the-mig-29-of-the-polish-air-force-a-video-that-shows-us-what-its-pilots-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/15\/the-mig-29-of-the-polish-air-force-a-video-that-shows-us-what-its-pilots-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The MiG-29 of the Polish Air Force: a video that shows us what its pilots experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 15 is celebrated the Day of the Polish Army, the name by which the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland are generically known.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/28\/the-1000-tanks-and-other-modern-weapons-that-poland-has-bought-to-defend-itself-against-russia\/\">The 1,000 tanks and other modern weapons that Poland has bought to defend itself against Russia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/10\/the-decisions-that-polish-raf-pilots-had-to-make-during-an-aerial-combat\/\">The decisions that Polish RAF pilots had to make during an aerial combat<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>This day is a good opportunity to get to know the Polish Air Force<\/strong>, which defends not only the airspace of its Homeland, but also the eastern border of NATO, now threatened with the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine. A month ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/Miros%C5%82awGawro%C5%84ski\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miros\u0142aw Gawro\u0144ski<\/a><strong > published a video that is a true visual poem about the Polish MiG-29<\/strong>. Poland still has 23 of these already veteran fighters of Soviet origin. They are in the final stretch of their active life, and<strong> these images show us the experiences of their pilots:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fulcrum Drivers 4 22BLT\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/paKExOJJiaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Polish MiG-29 are part of the 1st Tactical Aviation Wing<\/strong>, and within this unit they form two squadrons: the 1st Aviation Squadron based in Mi\u0144sk Mazowiecki, in eastern Poland, and the 41st Aviation Squadron based in Malbork, in the north of the country. <strong>Hopefully these fighters never have to go to war.<\/strong> But if they do, I hope they'll be right up there with the Polish 303 Squadron RAF, which was the most successful Allied unit in the Battle of Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 15 is celebrated the Day of the Polish Army, the name by which the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland are generically known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[6446,10370,14051,10469],"class_list":["post-48298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-mikoyan-gurevich-mig-29","tag-poland","tag-polish-air-force","tag-polish-army"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 21:12:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}