Mikoyan

Mikoyan, formerly Mikoyan-Gurevich (), is a Russian military aircraft design bureau, 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 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.

List of MiG Aircraft

Production

MiG-1, 1940
MiG-3, 1941
MiG-5, 1942
MiG-7, 1944
MiG-9 'Fargo', 1947
MiG-13 (aka MiG I-250 (N)), 1945
MiG-13, 1950
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, 1960
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 and F-16 Fighting Falcon
MiG-31 'Foxhound', 1983, replaced the MiG-25.
MiG-33 'Fulcrum-E', 1989, an advanced version of the MiG-29, also known as the MiG-29M.
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

MiG-8, 1945
MiG-I270, 1946
MiG-23 - (first used) early name of E-8 (E-8/1 and E-8/2). 1960.
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

MiG-105 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 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).

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.

References

External links

Official site of MiG "OKB" successor enterprise
http://www.aviation.ru/MiG/
Russian Aviation Museum MiG Pages
Painting

Aircraft manufacturers of the Soviet Union and Russia