A Cuban Air Force pilot in a MiG-21 jet streaked across the Florida Straits on Friday afternoon, landing at Key West Naval Air Station in another jet fighter defection unchallenged by U.S. forces.

Cuban officials claim the Chong Chon Gang ... Panamanian forensic workers close a container holding a MiG-21 fighter jet seized from the North Korean-flagged ship Chong Chon Gang during ...

The indictment says that at 3:21 p.m., the Cuban pilots fired on the first Cessna ... Puente "personally authorized" the MiG-29 to destroy the second aircraft. At 3:28 p.m., the pilots shot ...

In March of 1991, Cuban Air Force Maj. Orestes Lorenzo flew a MIG-21 into Boca Chica Naval Air Station, near Key West. Two years later in 1993, Capt. Enio Ravelo Rodriguez copied the feat ...

Some analysts say the low-hours are due to concerns over mainframe repair, but others say it's lack of fuel. Even so, the site GlobalSecurity.org estimates that even at full strength, the DPRK ...

Ravelo’s plan unfolded in 22 minutes, from the time he took off in a MiG-21 fighter jet from San Antonio de los Banos in Cuba to when he landed at the Key West Naval Air Station at Boca Chica ...

Panamanian officials have found two 1950s era MiG-21 fighters onboard a North Korean ... a surface-to-air missile system originating from Cuba, government officials said on Sunday.

6 November 1981 – South African Air Force Major Johan Rankin flying a Mirage F-1CZ engaged a Cuban MiG-21 FM "Fishbed" flown by Major Leonel Ponce, Downing his MiG with a burst of 30 mm cannon.

PANAMA CITY — Two Cuban MiG-21 jet fighters found aboard a seized North Korean cargo ship three months ago were in good repair, had been recently flown and were accompanied by “brand-new ...