Is there anything more time-honored in military aviation circles than poking fun at post-Soviet Russian jet fighters? It's like as soon as the hammer and sickle flag descended from the Kremlin, never ...
Forty-eight years ago today, on October 6, 1975, the Mikoyan MiG-29 took to the skies for the first time. The MiG-29A prototype 9-01, known as "01 Blue," was piloted by Soviet test aviator Alexander ...
Few combat aircraft have been produced in numbers comparable to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. Conceived during the height of the Cold War, the MiG-21 was designed to be fast, simple, and affordable, ...