On this day in aviation history, February 14, 1955, the first flight of a key progenitor that led to the MiG-21, the ...

Engineering excellence and modern technology meld in the world’s best fighters found on the decks of aircraft carriers around ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the fastest jets it has ever made.

One of the USSR’s most iconic design bureaus, Mikoyan-Gurevich, created a series of warplanes that, in some cases, are still flying the unfriendly skies today. The MiG-21 fighter (NATO ...

Designed as an entry point for the Soviet fighter school, DOSAAF, the Yak-52 was built to closely resemble future jet aircraft such as the L-29 Delfin, L-39 Albatross, and MiG-15. Outside of military ...

A landmark development in this collaboration came in 1962 when the Soviet Union agreed to transfer technology for the production of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter jet. This agreement not only ...

and I was partner with Progress in Arseniev and exported all the factory Yak 55Ms to the U.S. I also worked with Yakovlev in Moscow and MiG 9 [Mikoyan and Gurevich] engineer Yesayan regarding ...