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 ...

A Soviet MiG-29 flies over Alaska en route to an air show in 1989. Late in the Cold War, the Russian air force deployed the Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter as a counter to the U.S. Air Force’s nimble F ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vano Mikoyan, one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died at the age of 89, aircraft maker MiG said on Friday. Mikoyan is ...

Russia’s RAC MiG will mark the 35th anniversary of the then Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter’s first flight in early October, but with the company actively pursuing… Russia’s RAC MiG will mark the 35th ...

Russia’s RSK-MiG is working on a new lightweight fifth-generation stealth fighter to replace the Mikoyan MiG-29 and MiG-35 Fulcrum series fighters. Called the Liogkiy Mnogofunktsionalniy Frontovoi ...

The Mikoyan MiG-29 twin-engine fighter was designed for the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War. Azerbaijan may be retiring some of its older Soviet-era aircraft, but these jets are not headed to the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: NATO feared this jet in the last days of the Cold War but it never seemed to reach its potential. Flown by everyone from the current President of Bulgaria to the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vano Mikoyan, one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died at the age of 89, aircraft maker MiG said on Friday. Mikoyan is ...