Mikoyan

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For other uses, see Mikoyan (disambiguation).

Mikoyan, formerly Mikoyan-Gurevich (Russian: Микоян-Гуревич, МиГ), is a Russian military aircraft manufacturer, primarily of fighter aircraft. It was formerly a Soviet design bureau, and was founded by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich as "Mikoyan-Gurevich." Upon Mikoyan's death, Gurevich's name was dropped from the name of the bureau. The bureau prefix for Mikoyan is "MiG."

Contents 1 List of MiG Aircraft 1.1 Production 1.2 Experimental 1.3 Never completed 1.4 Fictional 2 External links

List of MiG Aircraft

Production

• MiG-1, 1940
• MiG-3, 1941
• MiG-5, 1942
• MiG-7, 1944
• MiG-9 'Fargo', 1947
• MiG-13, 1950
• MiG-13 (aka MiG I-250 (N)), 1945
• MiG-15 'Fagot', 1948, a contemporary of the F-86 Sabre and used widely in the Korean War
• MiG-17 'Fresco', 1954
• MiG-19 'Farmer', 1955, MiG's first supersonic fighter
• MiG-21 'Fishbed', a contemporary of the F-4 Phantom II
• MiG-23 'Flogger-A/B', 1974, a variable-geometry interceptor
• MiG-25 'Foxbat', 1966, a Mach 3 interceptor
• MiG-27 'Flogger-D/J', 1973, a ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23.
• MiG-29 'Fulcrum', 1983, comparable to the US F/A-18 Hornet.
• MiG-31 'Foxhound', 1983, replaced the MiG-25.
• MiG-33 'Fulcrum', 1989, an advanced version of the MiG-29, also known as the MiG-29M.
• MiG-35 'Fulcrum', 2005, new name for the MiG-29OVT, which is a MiG-29M/33 with thrust vectoring.

Experimental

• MiG-8, 1945
• MiG-I270, 1946
• MiG-AT, 1992
• MiG-110, 1995
• MiG MFI objekt 1.44/1.42 , "Flatpack", 1986-2000 (Please note: MiG-35/MiG-37 designations are journalisms or PR-names for 1.42/1.44 MFI (multirole frontline fighter) and LFI (lightweight frontline fighter) projects of the bureau, not necessary in this order)
• MiG LFI project

Never completed

• Spiral, 1965

Fictional

MiGs were the best-known Soviet fighters during the Cold War, and as a result there are a number of fictional MiGs in Western popular culture.

• The MiG-28 is a fictitious aircraft used in the 1986 movie Top Gun. They were portrayed by disguised F-5 Tiger II aircraft.
• The MiG-31 "Firefox" was the subject of two novels (Firefox and Firefox Down) and a 1982 movie. To add to the confusion, the real MiG-31 "Foxhound" has an aerial search radar named "Foxfire."
• The MiG-37 "Ferret-E" is a plastic model kit created by Italeri (also sold by Testors).

See also: List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

MiGs follow the convention of using odd numbers for fighter aircraft. So although the MiG-8 and MiG-110 exist, they are not fighters. The MiG-105 "Spiral" was designed as an orbital intercepter, whose contemporary was the US Air Force's cancelled X-20 Dyna-Soar project.

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External links

• Official site of MiG "OKB" successor enterprise
• http://www.aviation.ru/MiG/
• Russian Aviation Museum MiG Pages
• Paintingde:Mikojan-Gurewitsch

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