In fact, North Korea still relies on old Soviet-era MiG-21 warplanes the country acquired from the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

On this day in aviation history, February 14, 1955, the first flight of a key progenitor that led to the MiG-21, the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2 took place. The Russian-designed Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ...

The contrast between these projects and Iran’s lack of participation in any joint fighter jet development or production is ...

The Soviet Union's MiG-25 was a big, scary, high-speed fighter. That is, until Western governments got their hands on it, thanks to Soviet Flight Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Belenko. This post is ...

In fact, stemming back to the Soviet era, realistic stats concerning specs and capabilities of defense platforms were often exaggerated. When the USSR debuted the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 “Foxbat ...

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.

The Soviet MiG-25, which was first introduced in 1970, was built as a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft. Due to the aircraft's large wings, the US assumed it was a highly ...

On September 24, 1958, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force faced disaster as its J-5 “Fresco” jets, copied Soviet MiG-17s, fought with Taiwanese F-86F Sabres in Wenzhou Bay.