Mikoyan-Gurevich
MiG (Russian: МиГ for Mikoyan and Gurevich) is the designation for military aircraft designed by the Armenian Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan and the Jewish Russian Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich or their design bureau (design office prefix MiG). While the name used to stand for Mikoyan-Gurevich, with the death of Artem Mikoyan, the design bureau is now merely known as Mikoyan.
List of MiG Aircraft
Production
- MiG-1, 1940
- MiG-3, 1941
- MiG-5
- MiG-7, 1944
- MiG-9, "Fargo", 1947
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-13, 1950
- MiG-13 (aka MiG I-250 (N)), 1945
- 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
- MiG-23, "Flogger-A", 1974, a variable-geometry interceptor
- MiG-25, "Foxbat", 1966, a Mach 3 interceptor
- MiG-27,"Flogger-D/J", 1973, a ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23,
- MiG-29, "Fulcrum", 1983, comparable to the US F-16 Fighting Falcon.
- MiG-31, "Foxhound" , 1983, a derivative of the MiG-25.
- MiG-33, "Fulcrum", 1989, a glass cockpit version of the MiG-29.
Experimental
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 Tiger II aircraft.
- The MiG-31 "Firefox" was the subject of two novels 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 by the Italian manufacturer Italeri.
See also: List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
MiGs follow the convention of using odd numbers for fighter aircraft. So 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 USAF Dyna-Soar. The Spiral Project was cancelled however.
