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The MiG-21 jet fighter was a continuation of Soviet jet fighters, starting with the subsonic MiG-15 and MiG-17, and the supersonic MiG-19.A number of experimental Mach 2 Soviet designs were based on nose intakes with either swept-back wings, such as the Sukhoi Su-7, or tailed deltas, of which the MiG-21 would be the most successful.
The plant's aviation specialisation was selected to be light front-line fighters and fighter-bombers of the "MiG" type. The MiG-15 aircraft became the plant's "firstborn" jet. From 1953 to 1979, the plant repaired second-generation aircraft: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15; Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17; Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21; all modifications.
Its goal was the acquisition of a Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, the most advanced Soviet fighter plane at that time. The operation began in mid-1963 and ended on August 16, 1966, when an Iraqi Air Force MiG-21, flown by the Iraqi Assyrian defector Munir Redfa, landed at an air base in Israel. Israel and the United States were able to ...
The 1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter downing was an incident that occurred on 7 January 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence, in which a European Community Monitor Mission (ECMM) helicopter carrying five European Community (EC) observers was downed by a Yugoslav Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, in the airspace above the village of Podrute, near Novi Marof, Croatia.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 The Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8 was a supersonic jet fighter developed in the Soviet Union , intended to replace the MiG-21 (originally named MiG-23 ). Only two prototypes were built in 1960–61.
The MiG-21P and MiG-21PF were the first MiG-21s to be equipped with a real radar that would enable them to search, track and intercept targets by night and in foul weather: the RP-21 Sapfir ('Sapphire') radar, which was given the NATO codename of "Spin Scan-A." The RP-21 Sapfir replaced the MiG-21F-13's SRD-5M Kvantum ('Quantum') ranging- and ...
The production of the MiG-21 in India under license by Hindustan Aeronautics in Nasik started with the MiG-21FL in 1966 in four phases starting with the assembly of CKD kits, moving on to subassemblies, parts, and finally advancing to production from scratch. 205 MiG-21FLs, designated Type 77 and nicknamed Trishul ("Trident"), were built in ...
MiG-21MF inlet cone. Inlet cones (sometimes called shock cones or inlet centerbodies [1]) are a component of some supersonic aircraft and missiles. They are primarily used on ramjets, such as the D-21 Tagboard and Lockheed X-7. Some turbojet aircraft including the Su-7, MiG-21, English Electric Lightning, and SR-71 also use an inlet cone.