History of the MiG

[dexter]

Mikoyan-Gurevich and their stable of Cold War icons.

 

[nahtanbob]

mig-21 is probably most iconic of the MiG series

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

It's pretty cool neither of them was ethnic Russian. Mikoyan was ethnic Armenian. Gurevich was ethnic Jew.