On a spring night in 1989, Soviet fighter pilot Aleksandr Zuyev staged one of the Cold War’s boldest defections—stealing a frontline MiG-29 “Fulcrum” and flying it to Turkey. -Disillusioned with the ...

Americans are accustomed to calling military aircraft by a name other than the F-22 or F35, so those jets are commonly ...

What You Need to Know: At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. secretly acquired 21 MiG-29 warplanes from Moldova to prevent their potential sale to Iran, fearing that... Five Facts About the Mikoyan MiG ...

The Mikoyan MiG-29 twin-engine fighter was designed for the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War. Azerbaijan may be retiring some of its older Soviet-era aircraft, but these jets are not headed to the ...