On paper, a MiG-35 against an F-35 sounds like a fair fight, and in one narrow sense it is: dragged into a close-in knife ...

Newer fighter jets like the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II, and China’s J-20 are ...

A Soviet MiG-29 flies over Alaska en route to an air show in 1989. Late in the Cold War, the Russian air force deployed the Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter as a counter to the U.S. Air Force’s nimble F ...

The Mikoyan MiG-35, nicknamed the "Fulcrum-F," represents Russia's attempts at modernizing its fighter jet fleet. With a focus on military prowess and no aversion to conflict, the Kremlin attempts to ...

The only sin the Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-19 (NATO Codename: Fargo) ever committed was being built in the wrong place at the wrong time. Too close to the MiG-17 to stand out on its own and too close to ...

Summary and What You Need to Know: The Mikoyan MiG-31 “Foxhound” is a supersonic interceptor that replaced the flawed MiG-25 “Foxbat.” Developed in the 1970s, the MiG-31 was designed to address the ...

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (NATO Codename: Fishbed) is one of the defining single-engine jet fighters of any nation in the 20th century. A platform that's so easily adaptable and beloved by its ...

The legendary Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter jets, the backbone of the Indian Air Force’s combat fleet for more than six decades, streaked through Indian skies for the last time on Friday (September ...

It was Valentine's Day 1955 in the erstwhile Soviet Union. On that winter morning - the high was just under -5 degrees Celsius - there was something in the air at Zhukovsky Airfield, an airbase some ...