The jet’s max takeoff weight was about 46,000 pounds, whereas the empty weight was 26,000 pounds, meaning the MiG-27 could heft plenty of ordnance. Today, the MiG-27 is completely retired. About ...

The MiG-29 is a 4th-generation air defense fighter designed in response to the F-15 and F-16 American fighters. It has ...

The MiG-27 was designed from the MiG-23 as a ground attack aircraft. The MiG-25 was designed as a response to the American XB-70 Valkyrie bomber and remains the world's fastest combat fighter.

In the case of the MiG-29 fighter jet, NATO gave it the reporting name "Fulcrum." A fulcrum, according to Merriam-Webster, is "the support about which a lever turns." A pivot. "Fulcrum" aptly ...

Soviet aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan, one of the founders of the Mikoyan military aircraft design bureau later transformed into Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, was born on August 5, 1905.

LUKHOVITSY (Moscow Region), January 27. /TASS/. Russia’s entire light fighter aviation will soon be armed with Mikoyan MiG-35 (NATO reporting name: Fulcrum-F) aircraft, Russian Aerospace Force ...