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

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 “Fishbed,” one of the Cold War’s most iconic and widely produced supersonic fighter jets (appx 11 ...

That’s not counting over 2,400 knock-off variants of the MiG-21 (called the Chengdu J-7) made by China and sold to at least a dozen other countries—and still flown by many of them. The ...

However, other air forces that have the MiG-21 include Syria (51), North Korea (26), Angola (23), Yemen (19), and Romania (16). China also operates the MiG-21-derived J-7, while 11 other countries ...

China's last J-7 fighter jets may leave active service this year, according to Chinese state media. J-7s, copies of the Soviet MiG-21, were introduced in the 1960s and have been called "grandpa jets." ...

Starting in the mid-1960s, North Vietnamese MiG-21 fighters began using K-13s to shoot down dozens of U.S. warplanes. Despite China-U.S.S.R. relations collapsing in June 1960, in 1961 the Soviets ...

NEW DELHI, July 30 (Reuters) - India will ground all its Soviet-era Russian fighter jets, the MiG-21, by 2025, following the death of two officers in a crash, the latest in a series of casualties ...