Is there anything more time-honored in military aviation circles than poking fun at post-Soviet Russian jet fighters? It's like as soon as the hammer and sickle flag descended from the Kremlin, never ...
From the far corners of the globe this week the elite of the Marxist world converged on Moscow for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Red China’s Chou En-lai arrived by plane, ...
Vano Mikoyan is best-known for engineering the MiG-29 jet fighter. (File Photo) Moscow: Vano Mikoyan, one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died ...
Based upon a 1977 novel of the same name by Craig Thomas, “Firefox” is a techno-thriller action film produced, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, released in 1982. Most (if not all) the aviation ...
MOSCOW -- Prominent Russian historian and journalist Sergo Mikoyan has died in a Moscow clinic of leukemia, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. Mikoyan, 80, was an ethnic Armenian born in Moscow. His ...
Mikoyan was in Cleveland as part of a larger tour of the United States that also included stops in New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. His aim was to ease Cold War tensions ...
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Today in Aviation History: The First Prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29 Makes Its Maiden Flight
On October 6, 1977, the Mikoyan MiG-29 prototype 9-01 took its first flight from Moscow, becoming one of the most famous fighter jets for its excellent aerodynamics and adaptability to various combat ...
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 ...
At the elbow of Nikita Khrushchev, as he toured East Germany this summer, appeared a new traveling partner, sallow, stoop-shouldered, scowling. Unlike the previous sidekick, Bulganin, who looked like ...
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