In the case of the MiG-29 fighter jet, NATO gave it the reporting name "Fulcrum." A fulcrum, according to Merriam-Webster, is "the support about which a lever turns." A pivot. "Fulcrum" aptly ...

The MiG-29 was developed in the early 1970s ... about when the U.S. looked to add a fleet cheap and easy-to-produce fighter jets that could defend against and eliminate other enemy aircraft.

Ukraine has confirmed the death of Captain Oleksandr Myhula, a 27-year-old pilot flying a MiG-29 fighter jet, during a combat ...

"They are afraid to approach us," the pilot said. "After all, there is a living person sitting there, too, who also does not ...

TASS/. A MiG-29 fighter on Friday crashed near the Kushchyovskaya airfield in the Krasnodar Territory in southern Russia, the pilot ejected and has already been evacuated, the Russian Defense ...

MOSCOW, August 14. /TASS/. An MiG-29 fighter jet has prevented a Norwegian aircraft from violating the Russian border over the Barents Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

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based at the 8th Fighter Base in Isfahan, emerged in Sep. 2023. “The Yak-130, equipped with advanced missiles, successfully destroyed the drone after it was identified by the MiG-29 pilots ...

Third generation: 1960-1970 early supersonic and supersonic, air to air missiles, radar. Multi role fighter, attack, bomber aircraft came into their own in this time frame. F-4, MIG-23, MIG-21, F-104, ...

Examples of fourth-generation aircraft include the F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, Harrier II, Saab 37 Viggen, and MiG-29. Sixth-generation fighters do not yet exist. But if 20 th and 21 st century ...