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Mikoyan
Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, or '''RSK MiG''', is a Russian joint stock company. Formerly '''Mikoyan''' or '''Mikoyan-i-Gurevich Design Bureau''' (), it is a military aircraft design bureau, primarily designing fighter aircraft. It was formerly a Soviet Union|Soviet OKB|design bureau, and was founded by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich as "Mikoyan and Gurevich", with the bureau prefix "'''MiG'''." Upon Mikoyan's death in 1970, Gurevich's name was dropped from the name of the bureau, although the bureau prefix remained "MiG". The firm also operates several machine-building and design bureaus, including the Kamov helicopter plant.
MiG aircraft were also used by the Chinese, North Korean, and North Vietnamese in aerial confrontations with American and allied forces. The Soviet Union sold many of these planes within its sphere of influence.
The Russian government merged 100% of Mikoyan shares with Ilyushin, Irkut (aircraft manufacturer)|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.] Specifically, Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.[http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post:8c2173f8-2f61-473b-bca3-e668f48ddf44&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest]
List of MiG aircraft
[[File:MiG-35 airliners net.jpg|thumb|MiG-35]]
Production
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1|MiG-1, 1940
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3|MiG-3, 1941
- Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS|MiG-5, 1942
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3#Variants|MiG-7, 1944
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9|MiG-9 "Fargo", 1947
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15|MiG-15 "Fagot" and "Midget", 1948
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17|MiG-17 "Fresco", 1954
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19|MiG-19 "Farmer", 1955, MiG's first supersonic fighter
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|MiG-21 "Fishbed" and "Mongol", 1960, fighter aircraft
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Variants - Development and Preproduction|MiG-21 Variants - Development and Preproduction
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Variants - Initial Mass Production|MiG-21 Variants - Initial Mass Production
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Variants - Interceptors|MiG-21 Variants - Interceptors
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Variants - Modernisation|MiG-21 Variants - Modernisation
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Variants - Trainers|MiG-21 Variants - Trainers
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23|MiG-23 "Flogger", 1970 (third use of MiG-23 designation)
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25|MiG-25 "Foxbat", 1970, interceptor fighter and recce/strike aircraft
- Mikoyan MiG-27|MiG-27 "Flogger D / J", 1975, a ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23.
- Mikoyan MiG-29|MiG-29 "Fulcrum", 1983, comparable to the US F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet
- Mikoyan MiG-29K|MiG-29K "Fulcrum-D"
- Mikoyan MiG-29M|MiG-29M "Fulcrum-E"
- Mikoyan MiG-29SMT|MiG-29SMT
- Mikoyan MiG-31|MiG-31 "Foxhound", 1983, interceptor fighter aircraft
- Mikoyan MiG-33|MiG-33 "Fulcrum-E", 1989, Cancelled.
- Mikoyan MiG-35|MiG-35 "Fulcrum-F", 2007, multi role combat aircraft
Experimental
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-6|MiG-6, 1940 (reconnaissance/ground attack aircraft)
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-8|MiG-8, 1945
- Mikoyan-Gurevich I-211|MiG I-211, 1942
- Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 (N)|MiG I-250 (N), 1945 (aka "MiG-13")
- Mikoyan-Gurevich I-270|MiG I-270, 1946
- Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8|Ye-8, 1962, experimental fighter aircraft
- Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152|Ye-152 "Flipper", 1959, fighter, NATO code name "Flipper"
- MiG-23 - (first use of designation) production designation of Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2A, 1956
- MiG-23 - (second use of designation) early name of Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8 (E-8/1 and E-8/2), 1960
- Mikoyan MiG-AT|MiG-AT, 1992
- Mikoyan MiG-110|MiG-110, 1995
- Mikoyan Project 1.44|MiG MFI objekt 1.44/1.42 "Flatpack", 1986-2000
- Mikoyan Project LFI|MiG LFI project
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105|MiG-105 Spiral, 1965
- Mikoyan LMFS
UAVs and drones
- MiG Skat
Naming conventions
MiGs follow the convention of using odd numbers for fighter aircraft. However, this naming convention is maintained not directly by MiG, but by ordering institutions, such as Ministry of Defence or Council of Ministers' Military-Industrial Comission (while in Soviet Union). The original designations for MiG aircraft are 2- or 3-digit numbers, separated by a dot. 1.44 or 1.42 is an example of original naming. Although the MiG-8 and MiG-110 exist, they are not fighters. The MiG-105 "Spiral" was designed as an orbital interceptor, contemporaneous with the U.S. Air Force's cancelled X-20 Dyna-Soar.
The NATO reporting name convention uses nicknames starting with the letter "F" for fighters, one-syllable for piston engines, two for jets.
In popular culture
MiGs were the best-known Soviet Union|Soviet fighters during the Cold War, and as a result there are a number of fictional MiGs in Western popular culture.
- The film Top Gun (film)|"Top Gun" features re-badged Northrop F-5 fighters as fictional MiG-28s.
- A Fictional military aircraft with the designation Mikoyan MiG-31 was the subject of two novels (''Firefox (novel)|Firefox'' and ''Firefox Down'') and a 1982 ''Firefox (movie)|movie''.
- The Fictional military aircraft#MiG-37|MiG-37 'Ferret-E' is a plastic model kit created by Italeri (also sold by Testors).
- The Fictional military aircraft#MiG-242|MiG-242 was featured in the Gerry Anderson production of ''Joe 90''.
- The MiG was also in Stargate Continuum.
See also
List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
Notes
External links
- Migavia.ru - official site of MiG "OKB" successor enterprise
- MiG page on Aviation.ru
- Russian Aviation Museum, MiG Pages
- Camouflage schemes for all MiG fighters
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Related Images- MiG-15
- MiG-21
- MiG-23
- MiG-25
- MiG-29
- MiG-29OVT
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