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Fictional aircraft codenamed MiG-28 have appeared in several different unrelated works. These fictional aircraft have been independently created and the aircraft share nothing but a name, although it has also often even been given the NATO reporting name Finback. In reality this codename has now been assigned to the Shenyang J-8, a Chinese interceptor-fighter. The designation "MiG-28" is inconsistent with the practice of aircraft designed by the Mikoyan design bureau (but see the Mig-8 "Utka"), and unusual but not otherwise inconsistent with that of the Soviet military. (Even number fighters include the Su-24, a strike-fighter, and the Tu-28 interceptor.)
The first instance of a "MiG-28" was in the 1978 Quiller novel The Sinkiang Executive written by Adam Hall. Referred to in the work as the MiG-28D (NATO code "Finback"), it was an aircraft that resembled a somewhat modified MiG-25, but with sharper air intakes and swept wings.
In the 1986 movie Top Gun, Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) squared off against MiG-28s with no NATO reporting name and of unspecified nationality. These were nothing more than American Northrop F-5s, which at the time were being used as aggressor aircraft for dissimilar air combat training at the real TOPGUN seminar (now known as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School). The F-5s "acting" as MiG-28s were painted flat black to indicate their villainous status, and retained those paint jobs after production closed.The paint also increased the aircraft's visibility, a plus for movie making. The nation flying these MiG-28s is not specified whatsoever in the movie but assumed to be the Soviet Union or another Communist state; audio commentary on the movie's Special-Edition DVD release states that they were originally intended to be North Korean. In the script, American pilots are warned that the MiG-28 is armed with the Exocet, a French-made anti-ship missile not found in the inventory of Soviet forces. In video games licensed from the movies, the enemy planes are replaced with real Soviet aircraft, the MiG-29 "Fulcrum".
Another MiG-28 is "seen" in the 1988 ABC television series Supercarrier. This MiG-28 was a fictional Soviet stealth fighter. An F-16 fighter in Soviet-style markings was used to "simulate" the Soviet fighter.
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Fictional aircraft codenamed MiG-28 have appeared in several different unrelated works. These fictional aircraft have been independently created and the aircraft share nothing but a name, although it has also often even been given the NATO reporting name Finback. In reality this codename has now been assigned to the Shenyang J-8, a Chinese interceptor-fighter. The designation "MiG-28" is inconsistent with the practice of aircraft designed by the Mikoyan design bureau (but see the Mig-8 "Utka"), and unusual but not otherwise inconsistent with that of the Soviet military. (Even number fighters include the Su-24, a strike-fighter, and the Tu-28 interceptor.)
The first instance of a "MiG-28" was in the 1978 Quiller novel The Sinkiang Executive written by Adam Hall. Referred to in the work as the MiG-28D (NATO code "Finback"), it was an aircraft that resembled a somewhat modified MiG-25, but with sharper air intakes and swept wings.
In the 1986 movie Top Gun, Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) squared off against MiG-28s with no NATO reporting name and of unspecified nationality. These were nothing more than American Northrop F-5s, which at the time were being used as aggressor aircraft for dissimilar air combat training at the real TOPGUN seminar (now known as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School). The F-5s "acting" as MiG-28s were painted flat black to indicate their villainous status, and retained those paint jobs after production closed.The paint also increased the aircraft's visibility, a plus for movie making. The nation flying these MiG-28s is not specified whatsoever in the movie but assumed to be the Soviet Union or another Communist state; audio commentary on the movie's Special-Edition DVD release states that they were originally intended to be North Korean. In the script, American pilots are warned that the MiG-28 is armed with the Exocet, a French-made anti-ship missile not found in the inventory of Soviet forces. In video games licensed from the movies, the enemy planes are replaced with real Soviet aircraft, the MiG-29 "Fulcrum".
Another MiG-28 is "seen" in the 1988 ABC television series Supercarrier. This MiG-28 was a fictional Soviet stealth fighter. An F-16 fighter in Soviet-style markings was used to "simulate" the Soviet fighter.
Fictional military aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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