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MiG (МиГ) is the designation for military aircraft designed by the Armenian Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan and the Russian Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich or their design bureau.
- MiG-1, 1940
- MiG-3, 1941
- MiG-5
- MiG-7, 1944
- MiG-9, "Fargo", 1947
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-13, 1950
- MiG-13 (aka MiG I-250 (N)),1945
- 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
- MiG-23, "Flogger-A", 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
- MiG-31, "Foxhound",1983, a derivative of the MiG-25.
- Mikoyan-Gurevich I-270, 1946
MiGs follow the convention of using odd numbers for fighter aircrafts. So although MiG-8 and MiG-110 exist, they are not fighters. MiG-28 is a fictitious aircraft used in the movie Top Gun. They were actually disguised F-5 Tiger II aircraft. The MiG-105 "Spiral" was designed as an Orbital Intercepter, whose contemporary was the USAF "DynaSoar". The Spiral Project was cancelled however.
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