Mig 29 Fulcrum Wall Art — 2 museum-grade prints on the theme. The MiG-29 entered Soviet service in 1983 as a twin-engine counter to Western lightweight fighters, pairing high angle-of-attack agility with the R-73 Archer and N019 Sapfir radar family. The 968th Fighter Aviation Regiment — Sevastopolskiy Red Banner, order of Suvorov — took delivery of its first MiG-29 in November 1983 and became the type's instructor-research hub at Lipetsk, where test and instructor pilots developed combat manoeuvre guidelines that shaped Fulcrum employment across the VVS and PVO. India ordered MiG-29 fighters in the mid-1980s as a counter to F-16 exports across the border, with No. 47 Squadron Black Archers standing up as the IAF's first Fulcrum operator at Adampur in Punjab.