In May 1989, Soviet Air Force Captain Alexander Zuyev defected to NATO by stealing a Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jet.

Key point: The former communist Moldova needed money and America wanted to get its hands on Russian technology. So a deal was made. When the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, the newly independent ...

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 Moreover, the MiG-29 would soon become out-of-date anyway.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 ...

Born in the Cold War, the MiG-29 Fulcrum became a symbol of Soviet air power—fast, agile, and feared. Over decades, it evolved from a pure air-superiority fighter into a versatile multirole jet ...

After deploying a few successful aircraft, such as the Mig-19, Mig-21, or Mig-23, the Russian military asked for something more impressive, able to compete against the agile, American weapons, and the ...

In its latest attempt to make the MiG-29 Fulcrum more attractive to potential export customers, RSK MiG may use the more powerful Klimov RD-33(Mod) engines from the naval MiG-29K as standard for the ...

MIG-29 fighter jets of the Polish Air Force take part in a NATO shielding exercise at the Lask Air Base on Oct. 12, 2022 in Lask, Poland. Slovakia approved a plan to send a fleet of 13 MiG-29 fighter ...