Mikoyan

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Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG

Type	Joint stock company
Founded	December 1939 (As OKB-155 in 1942)
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Key people	Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, founder
Industry	Aerospace and defense
Products	Military aircraft Civil airliners
Website	Official Website

For other uses, see Mikoyan (disambiguation).

Mikoyan, formerly Mikoyan-Gurevich (Russian: Микоян-Гуревич, МиГ), 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." Some sources also point out that MIG stands for Military Industrial Group, but this is most probably an English backronym since the Russian word for "Military" does not start with "M". 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.

1 List of MiG Aircraft
2 References
3 External links

[edit] List of MiG Aircraft

MiG-15

MiG-21

MiG-25

MiG-29

MiG-35

[edit] Production

MiG-1, 1940
MiG-3, 1941
MiG-5, 1942
MiG-7, 1944
MiG-9 'Fargo', 1947
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', 1970, a variable-geometry interceptor
MiG-25 'Foxbat', 1970, a Mach 3 interceptor
MiG-27 'Flogger-D/J', 1975, 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, 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".

[edit] 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 (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
105 Spiral, 1965

[edit] 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.).

[edit] 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 F-5 Freedom Fighter 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).