Here’s What You Need to Remember: These limitations in part reflected Soviet doctrine in which pilots were intended to be closely directed by ground controllers, so their situation awareness was less ...

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 Moreover, the MiG-29 would soon become out-of-date anyway.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

Key Points and Summary - Born in the late 1970s to counter F-15s and F-16s, the MiG-29 paired agile aerodynamics (LERX, twin tails) and twin RD-33s with IRST, a helmet sight, and the R-73 to dominate ...

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 ...