Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich, or MiG (Russian: Микоян, Микоян-Гуревич or МиГ) is a Russian military aircraft manufacturer. 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. "MiG" is the bureau prefix.
List of MiG Aircraft
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
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-13, 1950
- MiG-13 (aka MiG I-250 (N)), 1945
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MiG-15, "Fagot", 1948, a contemporary of the F-86 Sabre and used widely in the Korean War
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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
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MiG-23, "Flogger-A", 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-16 Fighting Falcon.
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MiG-31, "Foxhound", 1983, a derivative of the MiG-25.
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MiG-33, "Fulcrum", 1989, a glass cockpit version of the MiG-29.
Experimental
Never completed
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 USAF Dyna-Soar. The Spiral Project was cancelled however.
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Last updated: 08-12-2005 21:41:23
