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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 ...
MiG-21 (1956; Izdeliye 65; NATO "Fishbed-A") The first series of fighters, production version of Ye-5. Five units built at Tbilisi, but not continued due to efforts having been redirected towards the more advanced Ye-6/MiG-21F. The aircraft that were built found work as testbeds. Initial mass production – generation one (1957–1961) Ye-6 (1957)
Have Doughnut. 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. Israel acquired the aircraft as the result of its Operation Diamond ...
All MiG-21 aircraft were withdrawn from service in May 2023. Serbia Serbian Air Force MiG-21. Serbian Air Force. Inherited from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 2006. There were 31 MiG-21 aircraft, including: MiG-21bis, MiG-21UM and MiG-21M modified to carry reconnaissance pods. As of July 2016, only 3 MiG-21UM were operational. These have ...
Fighter, MiG's first supersonic fighter, first mass-produced supersonic fighter, prototype called I-360 MiG-21: Fishbed 1959 Production Fighter and interceptor, most-produced supersonic fighter, widely exported to other air forces, originally to be based on Ye-5 but instead developed from MiG-19 variant SM-12, basis of many other variants: MiG-23
North Vietnam Air Force. Years of service. 1961–2002. Rank. Lieutenant-general. Battles/wars. Vietnam War. Nguyễn Văn Cốc (born December 1942) is a former North Vietnamese MiG-21 fighter ace of the Vietnamese People's Air Force 's (also known as the North Vietnamese Air Force) 921st Fighter Regiment.
The Vietnamese Air Force used J-5s alongside the Soviet supplied MiG-17s for interception missions until the 1990s when they were retired, along with the remaining MiG-19s, being replaced with newer MiG-21s and Su-27s. Retired from service in November 2015. [17] Replaced with Su-22. Captured during Vietnam War.
This allowed the EAF to greatly modernise and boost its combat effectiveness. The MiG-21 Fishbed arrived in the early 1960s, bringing with it a Mach 2 capability. The MiG-21 would remain Egypt's primary fighter for the next two decades. The EAF also began flying the Sukhoi Su-7 fighter/bomber in the mid-1960s.