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Mikoyan, formerly
Mikoyan-Gurevich (), is a
Russian military
aircraft design bureau, primarily of
fighter aircraft. It was formerly a
Soviet , and was founded by
Artem Mikoyan and
Mikhail Gurevich as "Mikoyan-Gurevich." Upon Mikoyan's death in 1970, Gurevich's name was dropped from the name of the bureau. The bureau prefix for Mikoyan is "
MiG." The Russian government is planning to merge Mikoyan with
Ilyushin,
Irkut,
Sukhoi,
Tupolev, and
Yakovlev as a new company named
United Aircraft Corporation.
["Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger." The New York Times. February 22, 2006.] The firm also operates several machine building and design bureaus, including the
Kamov helicopter plant.
Production
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MiG-1, 1940
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MiG-3, 1941
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MiG-5, 1942
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MiG-7, 1944
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MiG-9 'Fargo', 1947
* MiG-13 (
aka MiG I-250 (N)), 1945
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MiG-13, 1950
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MiG-15 'Fagot', 1948, a contemporary of the
F-86 Sabre and used widely in the
Korean War*
MiG-17 'Fresco', 1954
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MiG-19 'Farmer', 1955, MiG's first supersonic fighter
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MiG-21 'Fishbed', a contemporary of the
F-4 Phantom II, 1960
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MiG-23 'Flogger-A/B', 1974, a variable-geometry interceptor
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MiG-25 'Foxbat', 1966, a Mach 3 interceptor
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MiG-27 'Flogger-D/J', 1973, a ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23.
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MiG-29 'Fulcrum', 1983, comparable to the US
F/A-18 Hornet and
F-16 Fighting Falcon*
MiG-31 'Foxhound', 1983, replaced the MiG-25.
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MiG-33 'Fulcrum-E', 1989, an advanced version of the MiG-29, also known as the MiG-29M.
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MiG-35 'Fulcrum-F', 2005, new (export?) name for the MiG-29M2, which is MiG-29MRCA
(prefix "MIG" is in Cyrillics, but suffix "MRCA" is in Latin script!) as published in "Aviation and Cosmonautics" magazine. Another genealogy is: MiG-29OVT, which is a MiG-29M/33 with thrust vectoring.
Experimental
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MiG-8, 1945
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MiG-I270, 1946
* MiG-23 - (first used) early name of E-8 (E-8/1 and E-8/2). 1960.
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MiG-AT, 1992
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MiG-110, 1995
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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.)
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MiG LFI projectNever completed
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MiG-105 Spiral,
1965Fictional
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
T-38 Talon 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 CISMiGs 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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Official site of MiG "OKB" successor enterprise*http://www.aviation.ru/MiG/
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Russian Aviation Museum MiG Pages*
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