Mikoyan
Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG
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Industry |
Aerospace and defense |
Founded |
December 1939 (As OKB-155 in 1942) |
Headquarters |
Moscow, Russia |
Key people |
Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, founder |
Products |
Military aircraft
Civil airliners |
Parent |
United Aircraft Corporation |
Website |
Official Website |
Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, or RSK MiG, is a Russian joint stock company. Formerly Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич, МиГ), then simply Mikoyan, it is a military aircraft design bureau, primarily designing fighter aircraft. It was formerly a Soviet 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.
In 2006, the Russian government merged 100% of Mikoyan shares with Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation.[1] Specifically, Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.[2]
List of MiG aircraft
MiG-15
MiG-21
MiG-23
MiG-25
MiG-29
MiG-29OVT
Production
- MiG-1, 1940
- MiG-3, 1941
- MiG-5, 1942
- MiG-7, 1944
- MiG-9 "Fargo", 1947
- MiG-15 "Fagot" and "Midget", 1948
- MiG-17 "Fresco", 1954
- MiG-19 "Farmer", 1955, MiG's first supersonic fighter
- MiG-21 "Fishbed" and "Mongol", 1960, fighter aircraft
- MiG-21 Operators
- MiG-21 Variants - Development and Preproduction
- MiG-21 Variants - Initial Mass Production
- MiG-21 Variants - Interceptors
- MiG-21 Variants - Modernisation
- MiG-21 Variants - Trainers
- MiG-23 "Flogger", 1970 (third use of MiG-23 designation)
- MiG-25 "Foxbat", 1970, interceptor fighter and recce/strike aircraft
- MiG-27 "Flogger D / J", 1975, a ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23.
- MiG-29 "Fulcrum", 1983, comparable to the US F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet
- MiG-29K "Fulcrum-D"
- MiG-29M "Fulcrum-E"
- MiG-29SMT
- List of Mikoyan MiG-29 operators
- MiG-31 "Foxhound", 1983, interceptor fighter aircraft
- MiG-35 "Fulcrum-F", 2007, multi role 4.5th generation jet fighter
Experimental
- DIS, 1941 (escort fighter)
- MiG-6, 1940 (reconnaissance/ground attack aircraft)
- MiG-8, 1945
- MiG I-211, 1942
- MiG I-250 (N), 1945 (aka "MiG-13")
- MiG I-270, 1946
- MiG I-75, 1958
- Ye-8, 1962, experimental fighter aircraft
- 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
- MiG-AT, 1992
- MiG-110, 1995
- MiG MFI objekt 1.44/1.42 "Flatpack", 1986-2000
- MiG LFI project
- MiG-105 Spiral, 1965
- MiG-33 "Fulcrum-E"
- Mikoyan LMFS
UAVs and drones
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 Commission (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 fighters during the Cold War, and as a result there are a number of fictional MiGs in Western popular culture.
- The 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 and Firefox Down) and a 1982 movie.
- The MiG-37 'Ferret-E' is a plastic model kit created by Italeri (also sold by Testors).
- The MiG-242 was featured in the Gerry Anderson production of Joe 90.
- The MiG was also in Stargate Continuum.
See also
Notes
External links
Mikoyan and Gurevich (MiG) aircraft |
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MiG-AT
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MiG-8 · I-211 · I-250 · I-270 · Ye-8 · I-370 · I-380/I-410/I-3/I-5 · I-7U · I-75 · Ye-150 · Ye-152 · MiG Skat · MiG-110 · Project 1.44 · Project LFI · MiG-105 · MiG-33
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