Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG

Type	Division
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
Parent	United Aircraft Corporation
Website	Official Website

Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, or RSK MiG, is a Russian joint stock company. Formerly Mikoyan or Mikoyan-i-Gurevich Design Bureau (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич, МиГ), 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.

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]

Contents 1 List of MiG aircraft 1.1 Production 1.2 Experimental 1.3 UAVs and drones 1.4 Naming conventions 2 In popular culture 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] List of MiG aircraft

[edit] 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-23 "Flogger", 1970 (third use of MiG-23 designation)
• MiG-25 "Foxbat", 1970, interceptor fighter 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-31 "Foxhound", 1983, interceptor fighter aircraft
• MiG-33 "Fulcrum-E", 1989, Cancelled.

[edit] Experimental

• 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
• 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
• Mikoyan LMFS

[edit] UAVs and drones

• MiG Skat

[edit] 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 Comission (while in Soviet Union). The original designations for MiG aircrafts 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.

[edit] 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.
• The MiG-31 'Firefox' 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.

[edit] See also

List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Migavia.ru - official site of MiG "OKB" successor enterprise
• MiG page on Aviation.ru
• Russian Aviation Museum, MiG Pages
• Camouflage schemes for all MiG fighters

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