The only things that aren't active in MiG Alley's environment are things that are virtually dead.
Most of the MiG crashes have been blamed on pilot error or technical problems.
The sources say the MiG came up to challenge the F-16 and was shot down.
It was blamed on a mid-air collision with a Libyan MiG 23 fighter jet.
Eritrea has received a batch of MiG-29 fighters, possibly from Ukraine, and quantities of small arms.
Russia has also offered to sell Venezuela 50 of its most advanced warplanes, the MIG 29 Fulcrums.
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Anyway James is planning something far grander for his next piece: He just bought a 1962 MiG-17.
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As the intercepting planes approached, the MiG dipped its wings and slowed down, signalling the intention to defect.
The number of shares issued to MIG's owners jumped, severely diluting Associated investors.
Aguer said Monday's bombings were carried out by MiG fighter jets and Antonovs.
The MiG's military pilot and his instructor, Majid Tayari, were sent to prison.
Kaskol's Sokol plant, based in Nizhni Novgorod, has been refurbished and is now selling MiG upgrades to India and Africa.
They have, unsurprisingly, struggled to fill the void left by 'Big Mig' and look unlikely to uncover it this time around.
Pentagon sources say a U.S. F-16 shot down a Yugoslav MiG-29 on Monday night near the border between Bosnia and Serbia.
As well as Russian MiG-35s, American F-16 and F-18s, the Eurofighter and the Swedish Gripen are also tendering for the contract.
When his MiG fighter jet crashed in Kashmir on May 27, the Indian Air Force pilot parachuted into enemy territory and was taken prisoner.
In Hargeisa, where 50, 000 died during the war of re-independence, a Somali MiG jet used to bomb the city sits atop a poignant memorial.
Also last year, China's JF-17s and Russia's MiG-29s competed in a tender from Myanmar, which eventually chose the Russians, but paid less than they wanted.
Both Syria and Jordan said the plane was a Russian-made MiG-21.
At the same time, it will phase out the aging MiG-21 and MiG-27 fighter jets as well as the Mi-8 helicopters and Avro turboprop transport aircraft.
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Now one of our main aerospace companies, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, has been developing a multirole fighter aircraft called the HAL Tejas which has been developed to replace the old Russian MiG fighters.
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Five years ago, a Cuban airforce defector in a MIG-29 fighter aircraft -- flying undetected until outside Key West, Florida -- confirmed that he had trained to attack the Turkey Point nuclear power facility in South Florida.
India can arm two types of aircraft to do this: the MiG-27 Flogger, which was made by the old Soviet Union, and the Jaguar, which was used in a nuclear role by the British and French air forces.
Recently, Syria has attempted to get some of its Mi-24 attack helicopters refurbished by Russia -- a move which prompted an international outcry -- and has ordered Yak-130 advanced training jets and MiG-29 fighter jets that have yet to be delivered.
He was sent to Tomsk in Siberia to interview an out-of-work ballistics missiles expert, was ambushed in a field outside Osijek, Croatia when war broke out in Yugoslavia and undercover in Russia, tried to buy a MiG fighter jet from an arms dealer.
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