Soviet aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan, one of the founders of the Mikoyan military aircraft design bureau later transformed into Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, was born on August 5, 1905.

The Soviet MiG-15bis and the American F-86 Sabre pushed aviation technology to its limits during the Korean War. When they met in dogfights over the Yalu River, in an area nicknamed MiG Alley ...

In fact, stemming back to the Soviet era, realistic stats concerning specs and capabilities of defense platforms were often exaggerated. When the USSR debuted the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 “Foxbat ...