About the book: 2005 / The debut of the MiG-29 aircraft in the Western media took place in 1986. Since then, the MiG-29 along with the Su-27 It is considered in the West to be a calling card, first of the USSR, and now of the Russian aviation industry. To the surprise of NATO experts, the new Soviet fighter was not only not inferior to Western ones, but even significantly superior to them in some ways..