Mikoyan Wallpapers
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Mikoyan aircraft - photo wallpapers: Mikoyan, formerly Mikoyan-Gurevich (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич, МиГ), is a Russian military aircraft manufacturer, primarily of fighter aircraft. It was formerly a Soviet design bureau, and was founded by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich as "Mikoyan-Gurevich." Upon Mikoyan's death, Gurevich's name was dropped from the name of the bureau. The bureau prefix for Mikoyan is "MiG." [br]List of MiG Aircraft: [br]Production [br]MiG-1, 1940 [br]MiG-3, 1941 [br]MiG-5, 1942 [br]MiG-7, 1944 [br]MiG-9 'Fargo', 1947 [br]MiG-13 (aka MiG I-250 (N)), 1945 [br]MiG-13, 1950 [br]MiG-15 'Fagot', 1948, a contemporary of the F-86 Sabre and used widely in the Korean War [br]MiG-17 'Fresco', 1954 [br]MiG-19 'Farmer', 1955, MiG's first supersonic fighter [br]MiG-21 'Fishbed', a contemporary of the F-4 Phantom II, 1960 [br]MiG-23 'Flogger-A/B', 1974, a variable-geometry interceptor [br]MiG-25 'Foxbat', 1966, a Mach 3 interceptor [br]MiG-27 'Flogger-D/J', 1973, a ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23. [br]MiG-29 'Fulcrum', 1983, comparable to the US F/A-18 Hornet. [br]MiG-31 'Foxhound', 1983, replaced the MiG-25. [br]MiG-33 'Fulcrum', 1989, an advanced version of the MiG-29, also known as the MiG-29M. [br]MiG-35 'Fulcrum', 2005, new (export?) name for the MiG-29M2, which is MiG-29MRCA (prefix "MIG" is in cyrillics, but suffix "MRCA" is in latin script!) as published in "Aviation and Cosmonautics" magazine. Another genealogy is: MiG-29OVT, which is a MiG-29M/33 with thrust vectoring.