The MiG-21 LanceR was the longest serving fighter jet in Romanian Air Force. After 61 years of career, the iconic MiG-21 LanceR, the longest-lived fighter aircraft in the history of the Romanian ...

But for now, this is the story of the MiG-21 LanceR (often stylized as LanceR), the Romanian Air Force's Eastern Bloc hammer. Though routinely overshadowed by more prominent Air Forces in Western ...

The Soviet Union-era fighter jet, the MiG-21, has a peculiar name used by other pilots: Fishbed. Why is it called that and is ...

Given their “considerably high accident rate”, all the Romanian MiG-21 LanceR aircraft have been grounded. The Romanian Air Force has suspended all the flight activities of the remaining MiG ...

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

As more used F-16s are bought, they will eventually replace Romania's entire MiG-21 Lancer fleet in full. So at first glance, what clearly appears to be a readiness drill and show of force ...

BUCHAREST, May 25 (Reuters) - NATO member Romania will continue flying its remaining fleet of military MiG 21 LanceR jets for one more year until May 15, 2023, as it speeds up a planned purchase ...

A two-seat LanceR B leads a pair of LanceR Cs during a training mission from Campia Turzii. (Photo: U.S. Air Force) Tests involved a 20% scale model of the nine-passenger commuter and utility aircraft ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian air force MiG-21 Lancer fighter jet crashed during an airshow in eastern Romania on Saturday, killing its pilot, the defense ministry said. Eyewitnesses at the ...

Squadron leader Andrei Criste, the pilot of an MIG 21 LanceR airplane that crashed in Mures County, underwent surgery on Wednesday at the Carol Davila Military Hospital in Bucharest, with the surgery ...