The MiG-1.42/1.44 MFI (Mnogofounksionalni Frontovoi Istrebitel or Multirole Front-Line Fighter) NATO codename Flatpack is an advanced development from the Mikoyan-Gurevich aircraft design bureau initially designed to be a 5th-generation fighter to compete with the US F-22 Raptor and also Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut. Mikoyan boasted that the aircraft was able to outperform its US counterpart with advanced stealth, speed approaching 2500 km/h, and superb manoeuvrability spectrum, but none of this can be substantiated.
Unfortunately this aircraft met an untimely demise thanks to the poor allocation of funding from the Russian Defense Ministry and lack of publicity till late in the 1997, and by then the aircraft was pretty much as good as scrapped. It managed one short test flight in 2000 and was severely hampered by the rarity of the proposed AL-41F engine, developed specifically for the fighter. With the delivery of the engine delayed indefinitely and the mounting expense prices involved with the project, the MiG-MAPO design bureau and the Russian Air Force killed the project in 2001, paving method for the new 5th-generation Russian air superiority fighter to be solely developed by Sukhoi.
