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 ...

Stick an ex-Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 onto a modern battlefield with advanced contemporary weaponry, and the results are bound to be like bringing a butter knife to a machete fight. As ...

After more than six decades of service, the Indian Air Force prepares to finally phase out its first supersonic jet in September. Let's look at the story of a fighter plane nicknamed the 'Flying ...

As noted by military aviation expert Stephan Wilkinson, “The Soviets hated [the name], just as they hated Fagot, Faithless, Frogfoot and other Western names for their fighters. The MiG-21 had no ...

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 ...

India is preparing to say goodbye to its legendary MiG-21 fighters, the country’s first supersonic jets but also an increasingly controversial aircraft, with a spate of accidents in recent years.

North Korea wants its neighbors—and the United States—to fear it. That’s difficult to do when one sees how backward its military is. North Korea is a place of contradictions. Barely able to feed its ...

NEW DELHI, July 30 (Reuters) - India will ground all its Soviet-era Russian fighter jets, the MiG-21, by 2025, following the death of two officers in a crash, the latest in a series of casualties ...

India has retired its last fleet of MiG-21 fighter jets, closing a six-decade chapter with an aircraft once hailed for its combat prowess but later derided as a “flying coffin” due to frequent crashes ...

NEW DELHI (Tribune News Service) — A MiG-21 Bison of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Rajasthan on Friday evening, killing the pilot, Wing Commander Harshit Sinha. This is the fifth crash ...

NEW DELHI – India retired its last fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets Friday, ending more than six decades of service with an aircraft once celebrated for its combat prowess but later derided as ...