However, the Hornets would get a chance to prove worthy of their dual designation - fighter and attack, as a pair of Iraqi MiG-21s suddenly appears ahead of them at supersonic speed. Russia ...

The Russian-designed Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (NATO reporting name: “Fishbed”) interceptor was an aircraft that challenged ...

Just six days later, the first AIM-54 kill followed: Major Mohammad-Rez Attaie shot down an Iraqi MiG-21 while he was patrolling an area over which Iraqi reconnaissance aircraft had been ...