Overtaking the sound: the legendary OKB Mikoyan and Gurevich - 80 years
2019-12-08T12:13:10.823Z
MiG Russian Aircraft Corporation celebrates its 80th anniversary. The company grew from a special design department at the Moscow aircraft plant number 1 named. Aviahima. Artyom Mikoyan was appointed the head, and Mikhail Gurevich was his deputy. From the combination of the first letters of their names, the name of the aircraft of this design bureau was born. Over the course of eight decades, MiG has been producing fighters unsurpassed in speed and maneuverability, which are in service with more than 30 countries of the world. To date, the pinnacles of the design idea of the enterprise are the MiG-31BM, adapted for the use of the dagger hypersonic missile, and the MiG-35, which is close in its capabilities to fifth-generation aircraft.
Source: russiart