Explore the history of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 "Fishbed," from its Cold War service in the Polish Air Force to its role representing the secret U.S. Air Force Project Constant Peg at the Evergreen ...

Fighter jets are built to do far more than simply fly fast, but speed ...

Russia will be replacing its supersonic interceptor aircraft Mikoyan MiG-31 with a new interceptor, according to reports Thursday. The MiG-31 has been out of production since 1994, prompting the ...

Click to open image viewer. The MiG-21 was the Soviet Union's first truly modern, second-generation jet fighter. Testing began in 1956, and the first version entered service in 1960 as the MiG-21F-13.

Soviet aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan, one of the founders of the Mikoyan military aircraft design bureau later transformed into Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, was born on August 5, 1905. More ...

Vano Mikoyan is best-known for engineering the MiG-29 jet fighter. (File Photo) Moscow: Vano Mikoyan, one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died ...

U.S. reconnaissance satellites detected the new fighter in November 1977, and NATO gave it the designation “Fulcrum.” Ivan Mikoyan, nephew of Artem Mikoyan and co-designer of the MiG-29, has passed ...