The potential to modernize the Mikoyan MiG-31 all-altitude interceptor has not ... the relevant contractors are improving operational MiG planes to the BM version," the chief executive said.
It is an evolutionary version of the MiG-31 fighters, developed in the 1970s to protect the USSR from a potential strike by American strategic bombers. Russia no longer produces them, so the Sokol ...
The Soviets began working on a replacement for the flawed MiG-25 in the early 1970s. By 1975, a prototype known as the ...