Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

MiG 21 Crash 2022: The Indian Air Force's four existing squadrons of the ageing MiG-21s fleet are expected to be grounded by 2025. The supersonic fighter jets were inducted by the IAF in 1963.

The IAF has grounded its entire fleet of around 60 old MiG-21 'Bison' fighters for comprehensive engine and other technical checks after one of the single-engine jets crashed into a village and ...

IAF sources termed it a precautionary measure ... Three civilians were killed as a MiG-21 crashed near Rajasthan’s Suratgarh during a routine training sortie on May 8. Soon after getting ...

The MiG-21, India’s first supersonic fighter whose induction began in 1963, has still not run out of juice, can hold its own in combat A storied ride is slowing to a final stop. An era in ...

This is the only instance when a MiG-21 aircraft brought down an F-16 in air-to-air combat, the sources said. The IAF has been replacing the MiG-21 fighter jets with more capable aircraft like the ...

The Indian Air Force is set to retire its Srinagar-based MiG-21 squadron 'Sword Arms' that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was a part of when he had downed an F-16 combat aircraft of Pakistan ...

an Indian Mig-21 FL claimed a PAF F-104 Starfighter with its internal twin-barrelled guns alone and by the end of hostilities the IAF Mig-21s had claimed 4 Pakistani F-104s, 2 F-6s, one each F-86 ...

NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force has decommissioned one of the four remaining squadrons of the MiG 21 fighters on Friday ... from 30 Jun this year. The IAF has three more MiG squadrons remaining ...

The Soviet Union-era fighter jet, the MiG-21, is called the Fishbed because Soviet and Russian planes rarely receive a ...

An Indian Air Force pilot has been killed in a MiG-21 fighter aircraft crash in Rajasthan state. The Indian Air Force in a statement said, the aircraft crashed during a training sortie in the western ...