Or is it? MIL is the design bureau. Named after the designer Mikhail Mil. However (traditionally), the last two letters of the designers last name preceed the model. Nikolay Kamov - Ka, Artem Mikoyan & Mikhail Gurevich - MiG, Pavel Sukhoi - Su, Oleg Antonov - An, Sergey Ilyushin - Il, etc...