T he 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 ...

Key point: Moscow’s Fulcrum was a high-tech plane but it’s service life was too short, raising costs.Moreover, the MiG-29 would soon become out-of-date anyway. The MiG-29 Fulcrum was the first ...

Setting the tune of things to come, in the Fulcrum’s first confirmed aerial combat, two Syrian MiG-29 were shot down by Israeli F-15s in 1989. There are reports Israeli fighters shot down ...

Conceived to fill the technological gap between Russian and U.S. fighters, the MiG-29 has been one of the last cutting edge fighters produced by the then Soviet Union. The Fulcrum was sold in ...

The MiG-29 Fulcrum outside the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has a hornet’s nest growing in its nose. Its tires, lifted off the ground by ...

While the MiG-29 is the Fulcrum, the fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57 is known as the Felon. Seldom does the committee pick a name pilots care for, but many Fulcrum pilots were partial to it and even ...

A Soviet MiG-29 flies over Alaska en route to an air show in 1989. Late in the Cold War, the Russian air force deployed the Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter as a counter to the U.S. Air Force’s ...

The farewell of the MiG-29 Fulcrum, from the Slovak Air Force, was the most important moment of the Slovakian International Air Fest 2022 (SIAF) that took place at Malacky airport on.

MiGFlug, a Zurich based company, offers would-be fighter pilots the chance to fly in a MiG-29 Fulcrum to an altitude of up to 22 kilometers, breaking the sound barrier and reaching speeds of Mach ...