{"id":14457612,"date":"2026-08-20T20:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/mikoyan-mig-1-44-cancelled-stealth-fighter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:27:46","slug":"mikoyan-mig-1-44-cancelled-stealth-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/mikoyan-mig-1-44-cancelled-stealth-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian F-22 Rival That Flew After It Was Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>In 1997, the Russian government formally cancelled the fighter that was supposed to answer the American F-22. Three years later, in front of an invited crowd at Zhukovsky, that cancelled fighter took off anyway.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Mikoyan 1.44 is one of aviation's strangest footnotes: a fifth-generation technology demonstrator that flew a grand total of twice, years after the programme it belonged to had already been declared dead. It is a story of Soviet ambition, post-Soviet poverty, and an aircraft that arrived just in time to be obsolete.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Datos r\u00e1pidos<\/p>\r\n<ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\">\r\n<li><strong>Tipo:<\/strong> Mikoyan 1.44 &mdash; technology demonstrator for the 1.42 fighter<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Programa:<\/strong> MFI (Multifunctional Frontline Fighter), rooted in the 1983 I-90 requirement<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Disposici\u00f3n:<\/strong> Canard-delta, twin afterburning turbofans (~130 kN class)<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Primer vuelo:<\/strong> 29 February 2000, test pilot Vladimir Gorbunov (18 minutes)<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Second flight:<\/strong> 27 April 2000 (22 minutes) &mdash; then nothing<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Cancelado:<\/strong> Programme discontinued 1997; superseded by PAK FA \/ Su-57<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Sole prototype:<\/strong> Gromov Flight Research Institute, Zhukovsky<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A child of the 1980s<\/h2>\r\n<p>The lineage begins in 1983, when the Soviet Union approved the I-90 requirement &mdash; the &ldquo;fighter of the 1990s&rdquo; &mdash; as its counter to the American Advanced Tactical Fighter that would become the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/aeronave\/raptor-f-22\/\">F-22 Raptor<\/a>. Mikoyan's answer was the Multifunctional Frontline Fighter, or MFI. Two designations attached to it: 1.42 for the intended production aircraft, and 1.44 for the demonstrator that would prove the concept in the air.<\/p>\r\n<p>The design was aggressive. A large canard-delta planform promised supermaneuverability; the airframe was meant to cruise beyond Mach 2 and to fold in the era's new ideas about radar signature. On paper, it was a genuine fifth-generation contender, conceived to replace the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/aeronave\/su-27-flanker\/\">Su-27<\/a> in frontline service.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Despite completing two test flights in 2000, the program was canceled because of funding shortages and changing defense priorities, with its legacy ultimately carrying over to the Su-57 program.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Noticias de aviaci\u00f3n cl\u00e1sica<\/strong> &mdash; &ldquo;Grounded Dreams&rdquo; series<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1366550274  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:GgyR.ce14\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/mig-1-44-canard-delta.jpg\" alt=\"MiG 1.44 canard-delta layout\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The 1.44 wore a big canard-delta planform and twin afterburning turbofans, chasing supermaneuverability and Mach 2-plus speed. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Killed by economics, not engineering<\/h2>\r\n<p>Then history intervened. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gutted the defence budget, and the MFI became a casualty of the chaos. Development slipped year after year for lack of money. In 1997, the government formally pulled the plug &mdash; and yet the single completed demonstrator still sat at Zhukovsky, essentially finished. Mikoyan revealed it to the public in January 1999, an aircraft with no programme left to serve.<\/p>\r\n<p>On 29 February 2000, test pilot Vladimir Gorbunov finally took the 1.44 into the air &mdash; roughly nine years late. The flight lasted 18 minutes and stayed gentle: a maximum altitude of about 1,000 metres and a speed of some 600 km\/h. A second sortie followed on 27 April, lasting 22 minutes. After that, the aircraft never flew again.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Russia tried to build their own F-22 Raptor fighter. It flew twice.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>The National Interest<\/strong> &mdash; Defence analysis, headline framing<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1781490477  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:GgyR.ce14\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/mig-1-44-mfi.jpg\" alt=\"MiG 1.44 MFI demonstrator\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The lone 1.44 demonstrator. The production 1.42 fighter it stood in for was never built. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The legacy that outlived the jet<\/h2>\r\n<p>The 1.44's engineering did not vanish with the programme. Russia's fifth-generation effort restarted under the PAK FA banner, a leaner and more affordable design that Sukhoi &mdash; not Mikoyan &mdash; would carry to service as the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/aeronave\/su-57-felon\/\">Su-57<\/a>. The 1.44 became the road not taken: the ambitious, canard-heavy answer that the country simply could not afford in the 1990s.<\/p>\r\n<p>Today the sole prototype rests at the Gromov Flight Research Institute. It is a strangely poignant machine &mdash; not a failure of design so much as a victim of timing, a Cold War fighter that outlived the Cold War by just long enough to prove it could fly, and no longer.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: Wikipedia (Mikoyan Project 1.44); Vintage Aviation News; The National Interest; military-factory.com.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Publicaciones relacionadas<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-avro-arrow-the-mach-2-superfighter-canada-built-then-destroyed\/\">The Avro Arrow: The Mach 2 Superfighter Canada Built, Then Destroyed<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997, the Russian government formally cancelled the fighter that was supposed to answer the American F-22. 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