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Yakovlev would have seen the early "large MiG-29" design at the presentation of concepts in the initial stages of the PFI contest whilst presenting their own designs. Mikoyan came up with the small MiG-29 layout after seeing the early Su-27 designs in the same meeting; the designs were not kept secret from each other. Its also possible someone moved from MiG to Yak - Oleg Samolovich took several designs with him from Sukhoi to MiG when he left in the 1980s.

[QUOTE="overscan (PaulMM), post: 174933, member: 1"] Yakovlev would have seen the early "large MiG-29" design at the presentation of concepts in the initial stages of the PFI contest whilst presenting their own designs. Mikoyan came up with the small MiG-29 layout after seeing the early Su-27 designs in the same meeting; the designs were not kept secret from each other. Its also possible someone moved from MiG to Yak - Oleg Samolovich took several designs with him from Sukhoi to MiG when he left in the 1980s. [/QUOTE]

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