Total Failure: The Mikoyan MiG-1.44 was a Russian experimental fifth-generation jet fighter developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as a response to the U.S. F-22 Raptor. Intended to showcase advanced ...

MiG 1.44: Russia Tried to Build Its Own F-22 – It Failed – By the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was much more reactionary than its idealistic founders likely could have foreseen. Not only did ...

Key Points and Summary - The Mikoyan MiG 1.44 was a Soviet-era technology demonstrator for a fifth-generation fighter, designed in the 1980s to counter the American program that produced the F-22 ...

Russia's enormous International Aviation and Space Show, otherwise known as MAKS, takes place every other year and is one of the top aerospace spectacles and military gear expos in the world. The show ...

Is there anything more time-honored in military aviation circles than poking fun at post-Soviet Russian jet fighters? It's like as soon as the hammer and sickle flag descended from the Kremlin, never ...

Meet the MiG 1.44 Fighter That Failed for Russia: In the 1982 techno-thriller "Firefox," the main character, played by Clint Eastwood, is secretly inserted into the USSR with a false identity in an ...