What is Mikoyan?
[[Image:Новое лого МиГ.png|right|200px]] '''Mikoyan''' is a [[Russia]]n company that designs [[fighter aircraft|fighter]] airplanes. The company was first formed in December [[1939]] as a design office called Mikoyan-Gurevich or MiG, this was because its designers were Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Mikoyan will join other Russian airplane companies in a new company called United Aircraft Corporation. == History == In 1939 Russia was part of the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] and was [[communism|communist]]. In the Soviet communist system there were two types of airplane companies, companies that designed aircraft known as design offices or OKB, and companies that made airplanes called zavods. Artom Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich had been designers in another design office helping a designer called Nikolai Polikarpov. One airplane design that Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich worked on at Polikarpov was called the I-200. When Nikolai Polikarpov lost the trust of the Soviet leader [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich were given the I-200 design to finish. This airplane was given a new name and was called the [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1]]. As it was being made, ways to make the MiG-1 into a better airplane were found and airplanes with these changes became known as the MiG-3 and later the MiG-7. However even with changes the MiG [[fighter aircraft|fighter]] airplanes were not as good as the fighter airplanes designed by the design offices of Lavochkin or Yakovlev. After [[World War II]] Mikoyan-Gurevich designed [[jet aircraft]]. In the Soviet system the airplane designs of the design offices would compete to see which was the best. When the best design had been found the design would be built by the airplane manufacturing company. Even though Mikoyan-Gurevich airplanes in [[World War II]] had not been as good as airplanes by Lavochkin or Yakovlev. Mikoyan-Gurevich [[jet aircraft]] won more of the competitions to be sent to the zavods and in the time of the [[Cold