1940
The first design to achieve production status of an OKB (Experimental Construction Bureau) headed by Artem ...
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Exigencies of the times precluding fundamental redesign of the MiG-1 to eradicate the fighter's less acceptable characteristics, ...
1941
Assigned the Izdeliye (Product) designation T, the design of a DIS {Dalniy istrebitel soprovozhdenya), or long-range escort ...
1942
With the primary objective of improving the aerodynamics of the basic MiG-3 design, the OKB began work ...
After completion by the TsAGI of full-scale wind tunnel testing of the I-210 alias IKh, the ...
1943
A third I-230 airframe was completed early in 1943 with a 1800hp Mikulin AM-39 12-cylinder Vee-type ...
Late in 1942, work was well advanced at the MiG bureau on several aircraft in parallel ...
1944
Although, by early 1944, the VP programme was of little more than academic interest, work continued ...
The first of the "A" high-altitude fighter series to mate turbo-supercharger and cabin pressurisation, the I-222, or ...
The last of the "A" series high-altitude fighter prototypes to enter flight test, the I-224 was ...
It was very un-MiG like. Light high-wing canard monoplane with pusher propeller, built of wood ...
1945
In February 1944, the MiG OKB initiated the design of a mixed-power single-seat fighter with the ...
Assigned the Izdeliye designation F by the OKB and the initial military designation I-300, the first ...
1946
1947
Created by the OKB as the Zh to meet a 1945 requirement for a rocket-propelled target ...
After the war the Soviet Union suffered from lack of gas-turbine experience and designed its ...
1948
1949
To meet a requirement for a twin-engined all-weather fighter formulated in January 1948, the MiG OKB ...
Characterised by what was at the time extreme wing sweepback - 60° at the leading edge ...
1951
1952
At the end of 1951, the MiG OKB had completed an adaptation of the MiG-17 airframe ...
Less than a year after the MiG-15 had been sanctioned for production (1948), this design ...
1953
Despite termination of trials in 1951 with the SU derivative of the MiG-15 featuring paired 23mm ...
The I-350 prototype of the MiG-19 first flew in September 1953. The initial production day ...
1954
1955
The Ye-4 was the true progenitor of the MiG-21, becoming the Ye-4/2 with airflow fences. ### The Ye-5 ...
By early 1954, the MiG OKB was involved in a design programme with the objective of ...
During 1953, the MiG OKB launched the design of a single-engined tactical fighter which was to ...
The MiG-21 air-superiority fighter was developed on the basis of experience of ...
1956
In 1954, the MiG OKB began to investigate the potential of a mixed-power, short-range point defence ...
In its definitive form the ultimate extrapolation of the basic MiG-19 design, the SM-12 evolved, by ...
1957
Prior to abandonment of the I-3 (I-380) without flight test owing to the Klimov bureau's inability ...
Retaining the wing of the I-7U and designed around the 30km acquisition-range Uragan 5 radar and a ...
1958
1959
For high speed development purposes and as a test bed for a 15-tonne engine that was ...
With the availability of the R-15-300 engine in acceptable form for fighter installation, the MiG OKB ...
1961
1962
During 1961, the MiG OKB initiated work on an upgraded fighter based on the basic MiG-21PF ...
Knowing that the US Air Force had named North American Aviation as prime contractor to ...
1965
1967
One of the most important tactical war-planes of the Soviet Union, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (NATO reporting ...
One of two parallel studies to meet a VVS requirement for a new frontal fighter capable ...
1970
The aircraft is the version of MiG-23 fighter, optimized for strike missions by replacing the ...
Designed as a long-range, extended-endurance PVO interceptor to replace the Tu-128 and MiG-25. ...
1975
1977
Designed to a 1972 requirement intended to replace the MiG-21, MiG-23, Su-15 ...
With a potential Russian requirement for 700 training aircraft, the order is being fiercely contested ...
1996
1999
The new Russian 5th generation fighter. The first prototype is expected to fly in 1999. ...
