The MiG-29 Fulcrum, a Cold War-era fighter, was once a formidable rival to the F-16 in terms of dogfighting capabilities. Developed in the late 1970s, it was known for its small, agile frame, Mach ...

Eritrean War continued in February 1999. Both sides used the pause to acquire much more capable fighters. Ethiopia purchased Su-27s from Russia while Eritrea bought MiG-29s from Ukraine. Those two ...

In the post-Cold War era, the Fulcrum fell out of favor as more air arms, including Russia’s, ... A Soviet MiG-29 flies over Alaska en route to an air show in 1989. U.S. Air Force.

A Polish MiG-29. Wikimedia Commons. ... Kyiv’s air force went to war in February 2022 with potentially 50 or so ex-Soviet MiG-29s, representing nearly half of its active fighter fleet.

Powered by twin Klimov RD-33 turbofan engines, the MiG-29 (which NATO calls the Fulcrum) is capable of flying at speeds in excess of Mach 2 for distances of as much as 888 miles, and at altitudes ...

Poland’s president said Thursday that his country plans to give Ukraine around a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would make it the first NATO member to fulfill the Ukrainian government's ...

But the United States is rightly wary of a proposal to send the Ukrainians MiG-29 fighter jets — a move that would bring small benefits on the battlefield and entail large risks of a wider war.

Mikoyan MIG-29 fighter jets of the Polish Air Force take part in a NATO shielding exercise at the Lask Air Base on October 12, 2022 in Lask, Poland.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said there was not any "substantive rationale" to NATO ally Poland's offer to give the U.S. its fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets for use in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Poland is ready to deploy all its MIG-29 jets to Ramstein Air Base in Germany and put them at the disposal of the United States, and urges other NATO members that own planes of that type to do the ...

I’m curious, where did the MiG-15s, -17s and -21s that the North Vietnamese used to inflict 83 air-combat losses on the U.S. come from? (“The Ukraine MiG-29 Fiasco Gets Worse,” Review ...

Designed byRussian Aircraft Corporation MiG, the Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jet is one of the world's great fourth-generation fighter planes. Powered by twin Klimov RD-33 turbofan engines, the MiG-29 ...