After deploying a few successful aircraft, such as the Mig-19, Mig-21, or Mig-23, the Russian military asked for something more impressive, able to compete against the agile, American weapons, and the ...

Americans are accustomed to calling military aircraft by a name other than the F-22 or F35, so those jets are commonly ...

The MiG-29 Fulcrum, a Cold War-era fighter, was once a formidable rival to the F-16 in terms of dogfighting capabilities. Developed in the late 1970s, it was known for its small, agile frame, Mach 2 ...

Key point: The former communist Moldova needed money and America wanted to get its hands on Russian technology. So a deal was made. When the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, the newly independent ...

A Polish Fulcrum has crashed near Minsk Mazowiecki yesterday. On Mar. 4, 2019, another Polish Air Force MiG-29 jet was lost in a crash near the town of Stoczek. According to the reports, the aircraft ...

In its latest attempt to make the MiG-29 Fulcrum more attractive to potential export customers, RSK MiG may use the more powerful Klimov RD-33(Mod) engines from the naval MiG-29K as standard for the ...

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One test pilot concluded that the Fulcrum’s “abilities equals and sometimes even exceeds those of the F-15 and F-16 jets. The aircraft is highly maneuverable, and its engines provide higher weight to ...

A Polish Fulcrum crashed last night. Pilot found dead. On Jul. 6, a Polish MiG-29 (reportedly: airframe bort no. 4103) has crashed in the village of Sakówko (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship). The cause ...

GDANSK, Poland—Russia is planning the resumption of trials of the active electronic scanning array (AESA) radar made by Phazotron-NIIR on MiG-29 family fighters. The FGA35 Zhuk-AE radar would be ...

Slovakia approved a plan to send a fleet of 13 MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, a day after Poland became the first NATO country to say it would send warplanes to Ukraine. “Promises must be kept & when ...