But was the MiG-21 really a better aircraft ... India first took deliveries of MiG-21s (of the F-13 variant) to augment their aging force of British-built fighters in January 1963.

Eight of them were assigned by the Syrian Air Force to fly MiG-21 F-13. By April 1974, Israel and Syria still hadn't reached a ceasefire, but instead kept fighting a low-intensity conflict.

The Polish Aviation Museum in Cracow, Poland, features several interesting exhibits and nearly all versions of the MiG-21 Fishbed, including the infamous F.13 version. The latter was not a pilots ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union operated thousands of MiG-21 fighter jets. Since MiG-21s were fast, cheap, and capable of both fighter and ground attack missions, it was inevitable that ...

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 involving the single-engine jet ...

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 ...