Mikoyan-Gurevich Wall Art

Mikoyan-Gurevich — 4 museum-grade prints across the catalogue. The MiG-17 Fresco bridged the Korean War jet era and the Vietnam air campaign — Soviet and Chinese pilots flew the type against F-86 Sabres over the Yalu while North Vietnamese Frescos later contested F-4 Phantom and F-105 Thunderchief strikes over Hanoi. The airframe's transonic handling and cannon armament made it a credible threat despite lacking radar-guided missiles; more than ten thousand Frescos and licensed variants rolled off production lines in the USSR, China, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The MiG-19 Farmer entered Soviet service in 1955 as the first USSR fighter cleared for sustained supersonic flight in level cruise — a milestone that followed the MiG-17's transonic success and preceded the MiG-21's delta-wing revolution. Licensed J-6 production in China made the Farmer one of the most widely exported Soviet jet designs of the 1960s, equipping Pakistan, Egypt, and North Vietnam alongside Warsaw Pact allies. The MiG-3 opened the Mikoyan-Gurevich design lineage that would produce the MiG-15, MiG-21, and generations of export fighters that shaped Cold War air power. Its 1941 baptism of fire on the Eastern Front came at the wrong altitude for its design brief, yet the type proved that Soviet industry could field a modern monoplane fighter under invasion conditions.

Updated 14 Jun 2026