When it first showed up, in 1977, the MiG-29, like its very distant ancestor, the MiG-15, was a startling revelation ... and a single B two-seater—were disassembled in Moldova and the parts ...

MiG-15 pilot Porfiriy Ovsyannikov was on the other end of the B-29’s guns. “When they fired at us, they smoked, and you think, Is the bomber burning, or is it machine gun smoke?” he recalled ...