Mikoyan Mig-29 Fulcrum: Multi-Role Fighter

by Yefim Gordon

Release Date: November, 1999

Edition: Hardcover

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Very well put together!

This is a great reference book! A must have for anyone seriously interested in this machine. Excellent artwork and background information- well worth the price!

Mikoyan Mig-29 Fulcrum: Multi-Role Fighter

Yefim Gordon's book on the MiG-29 is full of interesting photos, facts, and color profiles helpful to modelers. My main complaint about the book is that it is 226 pages long (excluding index) and the first 79 pages are dedicated to deveolpment and 'nuts and bolts' of the airplane. This is fine for modelers or avaition mechanics and aviation engineers, but rather dry reading for the historian. The book improves dramatically with the chapters covering the Russian Navy, Air Force, and foreign users of the MiG-29. As another reviewer has already stated, I found the chapter comparing Western aircraft to the MiG to be heavily biased in favor of the Russian aircraft. Perhaps Yefim Gordon is trying to get a job as a used fighter salesman for Mikoyan? It's worth thinking about as Desert Storm proved the weaknesses of the MiG-29 to the world. True, the Coalition was not facing Russian trained pilots, but the Iraqi Air Force failed to down any type of Allied fighter in the campaign during air-to-air combat. Still, I would recommend the book to anyone interested in Russia's modern fighters or the MiG-29 in particular. I enjoyed it.