, formerly '''Mikoyan-Gurevich''' (), is a .'' February 22 , 2006 . The firm also operates several machine building and design bureaus, including the Kamov helicopter plant.
- MiG-1 , 1940
- MiG-3 , 1941
- MiG-5 , 1942
- MiG-7 , 1944
- MiG-9 'Fargo' , 1947
- MiG-13 (''aka MiG I-250 (N) ''), 1945
- MiG-13 , 1950
- MiG-15 'Fagot' , 1948, a contemporary of the F-86 Sabre and used widely in the Korean War
- MiG-17 'Fresco' , 1954
- MiG-19 'Farmer' , 1955, MiG's first supersonic fighter
- MiG-21 'Fishbed' , a contemporary of the F-4 Phantom II , 1960
- MiG-23 'Flogger-A/B' , 1974, a variable-geometry interceptor
- MiG-25 'Foxbat' , 1966, a Mach 3 interceptor
- MiG-27 'Flogger-D/J' , 1973, a ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23.
- MiG-29 'Fulcrum' , 1983, comparable to the US F/A-18 Hornet .
- MiG-31 'Foxhound' , 1983, replaced the MiG-25.
- MiG-33 'Fulcrum' , 1989, an advanced version of the MiG-29, also known as the MiG-29M.
- 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.
- MiG-8 , 1945
- MiG-I270 , 1946
- MiG-23 - (first used) early name of E-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 (Please note: designations are ''journalisms'' or ''PR-names'' for 1.42/1.44 MFI (multirole frontline fighter) and LFI (lightweight frontline fighter) projects of the bureau, not necessary in this order)
- MiG LFI Project
MiGs were the best-known Soviet fighters during the Cold War , and as a result there are a number of fictional MiGs in Western popular culture.
''See also:'' List Of Military Aircraft Of The Soviet Union And The CIS
MiGs follow the convention of using odd numbers for fighter aircraft. So although the MiG-8 and MiG-110 exist, they are not fighters. The MiG-105 "Spiral" was designed as an orbital intercepter, whose contemporary was the US Air Force's cancelled X-20 Dyna-Soar project.
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