An artist's rendering of the MiG-UTS shows it to be similar in appearance to the L-39 it is intended to replace. This is based largely on earlier design work done in the 1990s on the MiG-AT that is ...
Stick an ex-Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 onto a modern battlefield with advanced contemporary weaponry, and the results are bound to be like bringing a butter knife to a machete fight. As ...
Key Points and Summary - Born in the late 1970s to counter F-15s and F-16s, the MiG-29 paired agile aerodynamics (LERX, twin tails) and twin RD-33s with IRST, a helmet sight, and the R-73 to dominate ...
Key Points and Summary - After the Soviet collapse, advanced weapons were stranded across new states. In 1997 the United States quietly bought 21 Moldovan MiG-29s—fourteen MiG-29Cs, six MiG-29As, and ...
The MiG-29 was developed in the 1970s to counter the then-new United States fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. It entered service with the ...