MIKOYAN

'Mikoyan', formerly 'Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau' (), is a Russian military aircraft design bureau, primarily for fighter aircraft. It was formerly a Soviet design bureau, and was founded by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich as "Mikoyan-Gurevich" and its bureau prefix is "'MiG'." Upon Mikoyan's death in 1970, Gurevich's name was dropped from the name of the bureau, although the bureau prefix remains MiG. Mikoyan was privatized following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian government is planning to merge Mikoyan with Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation.^[1] The firm also operates several machine-building and design bureaus, including the Kamov helicopter plant.

Contents

List of MiG Aircraft

Production

Experimental

Naming Conventions

Fictional

Misc.

References

External links

List of MiG Aircraft

Production

★ MiG-1, 1940

★ MiG-3, 1941

★ MiG-5, 1942

★ MiG-7, 1944

★ MiG-9, 1947

★ MiG-15, 1948, a contemporary of the F-86 Sabre and used widely in the Korean War

★ MiG-17, 1954

★ MiG-19, 1955, MiG's first supersonic fighter

★ MiG-21, a contemporary of the F-4 Phantom II, 1960

★ MiG-23, 1970, a variable-geometry interceptor

★ MiG-25, 1970, a Mach 3 interceptor

★ MiG-27, 1975, a ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23.

★ MiG-29, 1983, comparable to the US F/A-18 Hornet and F-16 Fighting Falcon

★ MiG-31, 1983, replaced the MiG-25.

★ MiG-33, 1989, an advanced version of the MiG-29, also known as the MiG-29M.

★ MiG-35, 2005, a new (export?) variant which combines the modern systems of the MiG-29M2 with the thrust vectoring of the MiG-29OVT; it is being marketed in India as the "MiG-29MRCA".

Experimental

★ MiG-8, 1945

★ MiG I-250 (N), 1945 (aka "MiG-13")

★ MiG I-270, 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

★ MiG LFI project

★ MiG-105 Spiral, 1965

★ Mikoyan-Arakelian MIG ARA-107

Naming Conventions

MiGs follow the convention of using odd numbers for fighter aircraft. 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 U.S. Air Force's cancelled X-20 Dyna-Soar project.
The NATO reporting name convention uses nicknames starting with the letter "F" for fighters ("B" for bombers, "C" for cargo, etc.).

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-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

Misc.

★ The MiG-28 was a code name for the US Navy Fighter Weapons School F-5 Freedom Fighter during mock engagements.

References

1. "Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger." ''The New York Times.'' February 22, 2006.

External links

★ Migavia.ru - official site of MiG "OKB" successor enterprise

★ Aviation.ru - MiG

★ Russian Aviation Museum - MiG Pages

★ MiG Painting

★ Site on Soviet designers and aircrafts