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 ...

With its top speed, armament power, stealth, and maneuverability, the F-22 remains one of the world’s best fighters. Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less ...

To compensate for the considerable advantages the F-4 Phantoms had over MiG-21s, the North Vietnamese developed innovative hit-and-run tactics. The Cold War was one of the most interesting times for ...

The peculiarly-named MiG-21 Fishbed was a menace over the skies of Vietnam and embodied the Soviet knack for simple, effective war machines. Its tiny but lethal design was more than enough to give ...

TUKWILA, Wash. — "I love just how clean it is and all the little details," said South African artist Ralph Zimon as he looked over the MiG-21 Soviet fighter jet at the Museum of Flight. He didn't ...

Chandigarh, Sep 26 (PTI) The legendary Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter jets, the backbone of the Indian Air Force's combat fleet for more than six decades, streaked through Indian skies for the last ...

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 ...