On a spring night in 1989, Soviet fighter pilot Aleksandr Zuyev staged one of the Cold War’s boldest defections—stealing a ...

Summary: The MiG-29K “Fulcrum D” is a Russian naval interceptor, designed to operate from aircraft carriers and introduced by the Russian Navy in 2010. -With limited carrier availability, the MiG-29K ...

Americans are accustomed to calling military aircraft by a name other than the F-22 or F35, so those jets are commonly referred to as the Raptor or Lightning II. Not every world power follows this ...

What You Need to Know: At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. secretly acquired 21 MiG-29 warplanes from Moldova to prevent their potential sale to Iran, fearing that... Five Facts About the Mikoyan MiG ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...