The first “21s” with the Polish Air Force were the MiG-21 F-13 with a single cannon and ability to carry air-to-air guided missiles. Then the PF version came into service, with a better engine ...

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.

Arab-Israeli War broke out, 16 Pakistani pilots volunteered to fight for Egypt and Syria. Eight of them were assigned by the ...

There a multiple reasons fighter jet designations skip numbers, including that being the number for a prototype, superstition ...

South African artists Ralph Zimon needed 5 years and tens of millions of colorful glass beads to turn a symbol of oppression ...

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 ...

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 ...