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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-1 Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-1

1940

The first design to achieve production status of an OKB (Experimental Construction Bureau) headed by Artem I Mikoyan and Mikhail Y Gurevich ...

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Exigencies of the times precluding fundamental redesign of the MiG-1 to eradicate the fighter's less acceptable characteristics, a series of what were, ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-3

1940

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-3

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-210 Mikoyan/Gurevich I-210

1941

Late in 1941, as series production of the MiG-3 phased out following the decision to discontinue manufacture of its AM-35A engine (priority ...

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Assigned the Izdeliye (Product) designation T, the design of a DIS {Dalniy istrebitel soprovozhdenya), or long-range escort fighter, began in 1940, competing proposals ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich DIS (MiG-5)

1941

Mikoyan/Gurevich DIS (MiG-5)

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-230 (MiG-3U) Mikoyan/Gurevich I-230 (MiG-3U)

1942

With the primary objective of improving the aerodynamics of the basic MiG-3 design, the OKB began work late in 1941 on an ...

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After completion by the TsAGI of full-scale wind tunnel testing of the I-210 alias IKh, the OKB redesigned the junction between the ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich I-211

1942

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-211

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-231 Mikoyan/Gurevich I-231

1943

A third I-230 airframe was completed early in 1943 with a 1800hp Mikulin AM-39 12-cylinder Vee-type engine and the Izdeliye designation 2D. ...

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Late in 1942, work was well advanced at the MiG bureau on several aircraft in parallel and referred to as Series "A" ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich I-220

1943

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-220

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-225 Mikoyan/Gurevich I-225

1944

Although, by early 1944, the VP programme was of little more than academic interest, work continued on two further "A" series prototypes, ...

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The first of the "A" high-altitude fighter series to mate turbo-supercharger and cabin pressurisation, the I-222, or 3A, was powered by a ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich I-222

1944

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-222

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-224 Mikoyan/Gurevich I-224

1944

The last of the "A" series high-altitude fighter prototypes to enter flight test, the I-224 was flown for the first time on ...

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It was very un-MiG like. Light high-wing canard monoplane with pusher propeller, built of wood with fabric cover, built to ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-8 "Utka"

1945

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-8 "Utka"

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-13 (I-250) Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-13 (I-250)

1945

In February 1944, the MiG OKB initiated the design of a mixed-power single-seat fighter with the Izdeliye designation N. Conceived to use ...

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Assigned the Izdeliye designation F by the OKB and the initial military designation I-300, the first Soviet turbojet- powered fighter of indigenous ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-9

1946

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-9

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-270 Mikoyan/Gurevich I-270

1947

Created by the OKB as the Zh to meet a 1945 requirement for a rocket-propelled target defence fighter, the I-270 was based ...

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After the war the Soviet Union suffered from lack of gas-turbine experience and designed its first generation of jet aircraft ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-15

1948

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-15

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-320 Mikoyan/Gurevich I-320

1949

To meet a requirement for a twin-engined all-weather fighter formulated in January 1948, the MiG OKB proffered the Izdeliye R, a side-by-side ...

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Characterised by what was at the time extreme wing sweepback - 60° at the leading edge - and the first MiG fighter ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich I-350

1951

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-350

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-360 Mikoyan/Gurevich I-360

1952

At the end of 1951, the MiG OKB had completed an adaptation of the MiG-17 airframe for a pair of 2600kg Mikulin ...

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Less than a year after the MiG-15 had been sanctioned for production (1948), this design bureau initiated work on a ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-17

1953

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-17

Mikoyan/Gurevich SN Mikoyan/Gurevich SN

1953

Despite termination of trials in 1951 with the SU derivative of the MiG-15 featuring paired 23mm cannon on articulated mountings, the basic ...

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The I-350 prototype of the MiG-19 first flew in September 1953. The initial production day fighter began to enter service ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-19

1954

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-19

Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-4 / Ye-5 Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-4 / Ye-5

1955

The Ye-4 was the true progenitor of the MiG-21, becoming the Ye-4/2 with airflow fences. ### The Ye-5 was essentially similar to the ...

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By early 1954, the MiG OKB was involved in a design programme with the objective of developing a comparatively lightweight interceptor fighter ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-2

1955

Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-2

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-370 Mikoyan/Gurevich I-370

1955

During 1953, the MiG OKB launched the design of a single-engined tactical fighter which was to utilise a wing fundamentally similar to ...

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The MiG-21 air-superiority fighter was developed on the basis of experience of air combat in the Korean ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-21

1956

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-21

Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-50 Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-50

1956

In 1954, the MiG OKB began to investigate the potential of a mixed-power, short-range point defence interceptor as a variation of the ...

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In its definitive form the ultimate extrapolation of the basic MiG-19 design, the SM-12 evolved, by a process of incremental modification, as ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich SM-12

1957

Mikoyan/Gurevich SM-12

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-7U Mikoyan/Gurevich I-7U

1957

Prior to abandonment of the I-3 (I-380) without flight test owing to the Klimov bureau's inability to develop the intended VK-3 engine ...

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Retaining the wing of the I-7U and designed around the 30km acquisition-range Uragan 5 radar and a pair of heavy, long-range K-8 ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich I-75

1958

Mikoyan/Gurevich I-75

Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-152A Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-152A

1959

For high speed development purposes and as a test bed for a 15-tonne engine that was being developed by the Tumansky bureau ...

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With the availability of the R-15-300 engine in acceptable form for fighter installation, the MiG OKB built two further prototypes of the ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-152(P)

1961

Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-152(P)

Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-8 Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-8

1962

During 1961, the MiG OKB initiated work on an upgraded fighter based on the basic MiG-21PF airframe and referred to contemporaneously as ...

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Knowing that the US Air Force had named North American Aviation as prime contractor to develop the B-70 strategic ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-25

1965

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-25

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-23 Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-23

1967

One of the most important tactical war-planes of the Soviet Union, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (NATO reporting name 'Flogger') was first flown ...

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One of two parallel studies to meet a VVS requirement for a new frontal fighter capable of operating from small, austerely-equipped forward ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-23PD

1967

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-23PD

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-27 Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-27

1970

The aircraft is the version of MiG-23 fighter, optimized for strike missions by replacing the nose section with radar with ...

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Designed as a long-range, extended-endurance PVO interceptor to replace the Tu-128 and MiG-25. Development began in 1967 and the ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-31

1975

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-31

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-29 Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-29

1977

Designed to a 1972 requirement intended to replace the MiG-21, MiG-23, Su-15 and Su-17 with the ...

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With a potential Russian requirement for 700 training aircraft, the order is being fiercely contested by MiG-MAPO, offering the MiG-AT ...

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Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-AT

1996

Mikoyan/Gurevich MiG-AT

MAPO MiG 1.42 MAPO MiG 1.42

1999

The new Russian 5th generation fighter. The first prototype is expected to fly in 1999. ...

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