Key Points - The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 "Fishbed," one of the Cold War's most iconic and widely produced supersonic fighter jets (appx 11,000 units), entered service in 1959. -Designed as a ...
It was Valentine's Day 1955 in the erstwhile Soviet Union. On that winter morning - the high was just under -5 degrees Celsius - there was something in the air at Zhukovsky Airfield, an airbase some ...
Ein vorpommersches Dorf entging beim Absturz einer MiG-21 vor 60 Jahren nur knapp einer Katastrophe. Zeitzeugen schildern den ...
The MiG-21 was a highly produced and iconic Soviet supersonic jet fighter that, despite its relative simplicity, proved exceptionally effective in Cold War conflicts, leveraging speed and agility ...
CHANDIGARH: On 26 September this year, the Indian Air Force (IAF) formally decommissioned its last MiG-21 squadron, Panthers, drawing the curtains on a fighter jet that served as the backbone of India ...
For a quarter of a century, much of the news about the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been about the abysmal flight safety record of its premier fighter – the redoubtable MiG-21. On September 26, after ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Military aircraft can have notoriously short lifespans, especially during periods of technological ferment. The most elite aircraft of World War I could become ...