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    The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-19; NATO reporting name: Farmer) is a Soviet second generation, single-seat, twinjet fighter...
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    MiG-29M/M2 and MiG-29K/KUB fighters. According to a Russian defense industry source, the Mikoyan MiG-35 is essentially an upgraded variant of the MiG-29KR...
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    aircraft. The MiG-21 jet fighter was a continuation of Soviet jet fighters, starting with the subsonic MiG-15 and MiG-17, and the supersonic MiG-19. A number...
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    directed the MiGs to ambush American formations. The MIGs made fast attacks against US formations from several directions (usually the MiG-17s performed...
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     335. "MiG-29." Jane's Aircraft Upgrades , Jane's Information Group, subscription article dated 10 July 2009. Gordon 2006, pp. 66, 377. "MIG MAPO MiG-29"...
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    dived to escape and then, uncertain where the MiG was lurking, turned back to Saudi Arabia." Quote: "The MIG 25 was extensively used in the Kargil conflict...
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    "Mig-29K". Deagel.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2010. "Engine, design deficiencies — Third crash puts Russian MiG-29K...
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    known as the MiG-29MRCA, was the MAPO-MiG's primary contender for many international fighter aircraft bids, later evolved into the Mikoyan MiG-35. Six of...
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    eight MiG-23BN strikers and four MIG-23UB trainers, concentrating them into a single squadron based at Mersa Matruh. By 1975 all Egyptian MiG-23s had...
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    aircraft several times over. 18 MIG-31BMs were delivered in 2014. The Russian military was to receive more than 130 upgraded MiG-31BMs, with the first 24 aircraft...
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  • MiG, formerly Mikoyan, a Russian aircraft manufacturer. MiG I-210 (IKh) - MiG-3 re-engined with a M-82A radial engine, 1941; also known as MiG-9 MiG I-211...
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    volando mig 15" (in Spanish). YouTube. "FAA Registry: MiG-15". FAA. Archived from the original on 18 August 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2011. "MiG 15 - Edenvale...
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  • Northrop F-5G Tigershark at Northrop's request to avoid confusion with the MiG-19. Since the unification of the numbering system in 1962, U.S. fighters have...
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  • of MiG-21s Warbird Alley: MiG-21 page – Information about privately owned MiG-21s African flown MiGs, including the MiG-21 Mig Alley USA, Aviation Classics...
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  • Mikoyan PAK DP (redirect from Mig-41)
    Mikoyan to replace the Mikoyan MiG-31 in the Russian Aerospace Forces in mid-2030s. It is often referred to as the Mikoyan MiG-41, because its project code...
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    still operating the obsolete MiG-17, MiG-19, MiG-21 and MiG-23 fighters, yet it operates more modern and fairly capable MiG-29 fighters. Analysts have also...
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    on it while at the MiG's 5 o'clock and although fired from the edge of their flight envelopes, both AIM-7s struck home. The first MiG had also turned back...
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    original on 28 August 2008. Toperczer (MiG-17/MiG-19 Units) p. 65 Hobson p. 17 Anderton p. 71 Toperczer (MiG-17/MiG-19 Units) pp. 30, 31, 88 McCarthy Jr....
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    Kyrgyzstan via Aerostar, were upgraded to MiG-21UMD standard. In 2013, three Croatian MiG-21bis-Ds and four Mig-21UMDs were sent to Odesa in Ukraine for...
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    version of the Soviet MiG-19 'Farmer' fighter aircraft, the world's first mass-produced supersonic aircraft. Although the MiG-19 had a comparatively short...
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  • had already delivered several MiG-19 interceptors, and China would later deliver a number of J-6s derived from the MiG-19, but as a more immediate solution...
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    system for the MiG-19. The rockets were tested in a series of configurations on MiG-15bis and MiG-17 jets, with the final tests complete on a MiG-17PF in January...
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    554. Toperczer, Istvan. MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units, p. 7 Toperczer, MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units, pp. 10–15 Davies p.53 Toperczer, MiG-21 Units, p. 77 Michel,...
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    "MiG Alley" was the name given by United Nations (UN) pilots during the Korean War to the northwestern portion of North Korea, where the Yalu River empties...
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    aircraft, MiG-17s shot down 11 and MiG-19s shot down 12 enemy aircraft[citation needed]) US Navy ace Randy Cunningham believed that he shot down a Mig-17 piloted...
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    The Mikoyan MiG-AT (Russian: МиГ-АТ) is a Russian advanced trainer and light attack aircraft that was intended to replace the Aero L-29 and L-39 of the...
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    with the real MiG-31 Foxhound. MiG-37 Ferret: a fictional Soviet stealth model aircraft, produced by Testors as a counter to the American F-19. The craft...
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    had numerous TOPGUN graduates who were ready to take on the VPAF MiG-17, MiG-19 and MiG-21 pilots that had also been training and were prepared for the...
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    making possible the first mass-produced supersonic interceptors such as the MiG-19, and the first Soviet all-weather area interceptor, the Yak-25. When Sergei...
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    down five or more enemy aircraft, include 19 Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) pilots, (six MiG-17 and 13 MiG-21 pilots),: 228  and five Americans. All...
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