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Mikojan Gurewitsch MiG, today Russian aircraft corporation (RAC) MiG) is a Russian, formerly Soviet military aircraft manufacturer. The company is specialized in the development and production of fighters.

The OKB (experimental design engineering department) under the line of the Armenian Artjom Iwanowitsch Mikojan and the Russian Mikhail Iossifowitsch Gurewitsch came out 1939 by government decree from the Muscovites aircraft factory No. 1 and the design engineering department under the direction of Nikolai Polikarpow.

The series production of the first airplane, which MiG-1 began at 1941 and became still in the same year because of the threat of Moscow by the German troops shifted after Samara. 1942 were separated the design engineering department from the factory and shifted again back to Moscow.

During and since the Second World War Mikojan Gurewitsch produced thousand military aircraft.

Important types of aircraft

MiG-1, 1940, first MiG production aircraft, elevator fighter
MiG-3, 1941, elevator fighter, in the Second World War in the employment during the air defense
MiG-9, 1946, developed from the prototype MiG I-300 was this the first series jet of MiG
MiG-15, 1948, fighter, used in the Korea war, among other things against the F-86 Sabre
MiG-17, 1952, advancement of the MiG-15, employment in the Viet Nam war
MiG-19, 1956, the first supersonic aircraft of MiG in mass production
MiG-21, 1959, usually-built nozzle fighter of the world (over 10.000 copies built)
MiG-23, 1969, variable-geometry aircraft
MiG-25, 1966, Mach 3 fast interceptor
MiG-27, 1973, an airplane for soil attacks, develops from the MiG-23
MiG-29, 1983
MiG-31, 1979, advancement of the MiG-25
MiG-33, 1994, advancement of the MiG-29
MiG-35, 1999, in the meantime adjusted modernization project, two prototypes

Prototypes/Kleinstserien

MiG-5 (DIS-200), 1941/42
MiG-7 (I-221 (2A)/I-222 (A)), 1943/44
MiG-8 Utka "duck "Entenflugzeug of 1945
MiG-9 "IKh" (I-210/MiG-9M-82), 1941, first attempt of MiG to use a radial engine. 5 copies
I-211
I-230
I-270
MiG-13, 1945, also as MiG I-250 (N) admits, only approx. 50 copies was built
I-320
E-8
E-266 record airplane

The type designation MiG is used typically only for Serienmaschinen transferred to the troop service. The designation of the prototypes or test machines (i e etc.) is not uniformly regulated.

For the type designation of fighters/fighter-bombers in the Soviet/Russian aircraft construction typically odd numbers are used, straight numbers are reserved for bombers/transport aircrafts.

The type MiG-28 is an invented airplane, which was used in the film Top Gun. Actually for it disguised F-5 tiger II was used.