Daily Archives: December 11, 2006

Flatpack

I wonder if someone in NATO was having a little joke. Russia is developing a new fighter aircraft, known as the Mikoyan 1.44 Project. Its alternate name is the MiG-MFI, short for the Mikoyan-Gurevich (the designers) Mnogofounksionalni Frontovoi Istrebitel (Multifunctional Frontline Fighter). NATO assigns a codename to Soviet and now Russian aircraft, so the MiG-29 [...]