Is there anything more time-honored in military aviation circles than poking fun at post-Soviet Russian jet fighters? It's like as soon as the hammer and sickle flag descended from the Kremlin, never ...

In the early days of World War II, the Soviet Union needed a high-speed interceptor to take on enemy bombers at extreme altitudes. Enter the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3—a fighter designed to climb higher ...

Total Failure: The Mikoyan MiG-1.44 was a Russian experimental fifth-generation jet fighter developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as a response to the U.S. F-22 Raptor. Intended to showcase advanced ...

Since their inception in the late 1930s, MiG aircraft have become as synonymous with the Russian defense industry as the Kalashnikov assault rifle or classic tank designs like the T-55. MiGs have ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vano Mikoyan, one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died at the age of 89, aircraft maker MiG said on Friday. Mikoyan is ...

Ivan Mikoyan, nephew of Artem Mikoyan and co-designer of the MiG-29, has passed away on Nov. 25, 2016 at the age of 89. As explained by RT.com, Mikoyan spent most of his career as a leading engineer ...

A Soviet MiG-29 flies over Alaska en route to an air show in 1989. Late in the Cold War, the Russian air force deployed the Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter as a counter to the U.S. Air Force’s nimble F ...

It’s not uncommon for modern military jets to have careers spanning three or even four decades. The Mach 3-capable MiG-31 we showed you some time ago is a classic case in point. But even these jets, ...

Key Points: Russia's proposed MiG-41 (PAK-DP), touted as a sixth-generation stealth interceptor successor to the MiG-31 with claimed Mach 4+ speeds, is likely an unachievable fantasy, argues this ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The MiG-21 was the Soviet Union's ...