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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.
MiG-21: Fishbed 1959 Production Fighter and interceptor, most-produced supersonic fighter, widely exported to other air forces, originally to be based on Ye-5 but instead developed from MiG-19 variant SM-12, basis of many other variants: MiG-23: Flogger 1967 Production
Only the initial version of the J-7 was a copy of a MiG-21 variant, namely the MiG-21F-13. Though an agreement had been reached between China and the USSR for licence production of the MiG-21 in China, political relations soured between the two countries, causing Soviet assistance to stop. The Chinese reverse-engineered parts of the handful of ...
List of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 operators; V. List of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 variants This page was last edited on 14 April 2014, at 08:19 (UTC). Text ...
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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.
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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 ...