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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ( Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Its nicknames include: " Balalaika ", because its planform resembles the stringed musical instrument of the same ...
Ye-4 (1955) The first delta wing prototype of the MiG-21. Proof-of-concept testbed: used an existing production engine in a Ye-5 airframe. Ye-50 (1956) Swept-wing, experimental high-altitude interceptor. Ye-2 airframe modified to fit Dushkin S-155 rocket motor. Design work started in 1954, first flight in 1956.
Angolan Air Force (FAPA-DAA): 23 in service as of 2023. The first MiG-21 deliveries to Angola included 12 MiG-21MFs, delivered from the USSR starting in January 1976. They belonged to a unit entirely staffed by Cubans. [ 1] In 1981-1982, 20 MiG-21PFM fighters were delivered second-hand from the USSR, as well as two MiG-21UM trainers. [ 2]
Have Doughnut flying in 1968 NASIC document describing the program. Have Doughnut was the name of a Defense Intelligence Agency project whose purpose was to evaluate and exploit a MiG-21 "Fishbed-E" that the United States Air Force acquired in 1967 from Israel.
Operation Diamond[ 1] ( Hebrew: מִבְצָע יַהֲלוֹם, Mivtza Yahalom) was an operation undertaken by Mossad. Its goal was the acquisition of a Soviet -built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, the most advanced Soviet fighter plane at that time. The operation began in mid-1963 and ended on August 16, 1966, when an Iraqi Air Force MiG-21, flown ...
The RP-21 Sapfir ( NATO codename: Spin Scan) was a radar system developed by the Soviet Union for use in the updated MiG-21PF fighter, and used in later versions of the MiG-21. The early MiG-21 fighter variants, MiG-21F and MiG-21F-13, were clear-weather daylight-only fighters. Although they were in use with the Soviet Air Force Frontal ...
The longest continuing United States classified military airplane program is the testing and evaluation of Foreign Aircraft Technology. During the Cold War, secret test flying of Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau (MiG) and other Soviet aircraft was an ongoing mission dating back to the acquisition of the first Soviet-built Yakovlev Yak-23 in 1953.
MiG I-7 - heavy interceptor fighter prototype developed from the I-3, 1957. MiG I-75 - swept-wing interceptor developed from the I-7, 1958; lost to the Sukhoi Su-9. Ye-8 - supersonic jet fighter aircraft prototype, 1962; planned replacement of the MiG-21. Ye-150 family - prototype interceptors in the 1950s.