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MiG

Industry: Aerospace and defense
Founded: December 1939 (As OKB-155 in 1942)
Headquarters: Moscow, Russia
Key people: Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, company founders
Products: Military aircraft Civil airliners
Parent: United Aircraft Corporation
Website: Official Website

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Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, or RSK MiG, is a Russian joint stock company. Formerly Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau (Russian: Микоян ΠΈ Π“ΡƒΡ€Π΅Π²ΠΈΡ‡, ΠœΠΈΠ“), then simply Mikoyan, 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.

In 2006, the Russian government merged 100% of Mikoyan shares with Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation. Specifically, Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.

List of MiG aircraft

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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

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MiG-21 Variants - Development and Preproduction
MiG-21 Variants - Initial Mass Production
MiG-21 Variants - Interceptors
MiG-21 Variants - Modernisation
MiG-21 Variants - Trainers
MiG-23 "Flogger", 1970 (third use of MiG-23 designation)
MiG-25 "Foxbat", 1970, interceptor fighter and recce/strike 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-29K "Fulcrum-D"
MiG-29M "Fulcrum-E"

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MiG-31 "Foxhound", 1982, interceptor fighter aircraft
MiG-35 "Fulcrum-F", 2007, multi-role 4.5th generation jet fighter
Mikoyan LMFS

Experimental

DIS, 1941 (escort fighter)
MiG-6, 1940 (reconnaissance/ground attack aircraft)
MiG-8 Utka, 1945
MiG I-211, 1942
MiG I-250 (N), 1945 (aka "MiG-13")
MiG I-270, 1946
MiG I-75, 1958

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Ye-8, 1962, experimental fighter aircraft
Ye-150, 1958
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
MiG-33 "Fulcrum-E"
Mikoyan LMFS

Picture - MiG-35

UAVs and drones

MiG Skat

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 Commission (while in Soviet Union). The original designations for MiG aircraft 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.

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