The movie had some fun with this fictitious plane, alluding to the real jet by giving some technical details about the MiG-28 when Charlie (Kelly McGillis) says, "Now, then, as most of you know ...

A Real Fighter: In the 1986 film "Top Gun," the fictional MiG-28 adversary aircraft was actually portrayed by a black-painted Northrop F-5, adorned with a red-star insignia to represent a Cold War ...

The MiG-29 was developed in the early 1970s. When the first mission-ready aircraft rolled off the assembly line in 1982, the MiG-29 was still undergoing flight tests. Over 30 nations use the MiG ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Russia is finishing up test flights for its newest fighter jet, the MiG-35, developed over the last 10 years as a replacement to the MiG-29 that has been used since ...