On this day in aviation history, February 14, 1955, the first flight of a key progenitor that led to the MiG-21, the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2 took place. The Russian-designed Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ...

In 2018, the Russian TASS news agency reported that the Ministry of Defense wanted to develop a "long-range interception aircraft" to replace its aging Mig-31 fighter jets. While the details on ...

MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. A Russian MiG-31 fighter of the Northern Fleet’s air defense quick reaction alert forces was scrambled for the second straight day to intercept a Norwegian Air Force P-3C ...

MOSCOW, September 3. /TASS/. A Russian MiG-31 fighter was scrambled to intercept a Norwegian military plane over the Barents Sea, Russia’s National Defense Control Center reported on Thursday.