In October 1973, Arab Coalition lead by Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel on Jewish holiday known as ...

October 17, 2025: India recently retired the last of its Russian-designed MiG-21 fighters. India is the last major country to abandon MiG-21s. This aircraft entered service in 1959. In 1986 MiG-21 ...

On January 2, 1967, Operation Bolo reshaped the air war over Vietnam as U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantoms ambushed North Vietnamese ...

India has retired its last Mikoyan MiG-21s after more than 60 years of operation. Some 850 examples of MiG-21s in various marques served with the Indian Air Force. Of those, around 600 were ...

North Korea wants its neighbors—and the United States—to fear it. That’s difficult to do when one sees how backward its military is. North Korea is a place of contradictions. Barely able to feed its ...

Mikoyan’s MiG-21 has stepped down from patrolling the skies of Europe after Croatia finally withdrew the type from the air policing mission. As of Dec. 1, Zagreb has temporarily handed over the ...

The MiG-21 currently serves in eighteen air forces worldwide, including two members of NATO (Romania and Croatia). Fishbeds flew in about forty other air forces (counting is difficult because ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India retired its last fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets Friday, ending more than six decades of service with an aircraft once celebrated for its combat prowess but later ...

TUKWILA, Wash. — "I love just how clean it is and all the little details," said South African artist Ralph Zimon as he looked over the MiG-21 Soviet fighter jet at the Museum of Flight. He didn't ...

Udupi: The MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force, which played a significant role in India's victory in Kargil War, ...