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

It's November 1971. and American air raids against North Vietnam are suspended. But, the war is still far from being over. Communist North keeps sending large quantities of men and materiel south by ...

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 “Fishbed,” one of the Cold War’s most iconic and widely produced supersonic fighter jets (appx 11 ...

At 12, Bernard Francis Rupinski was named to the Edwardsville Little League All-Star team that won the district championship in August 1955. As a student at West Side Central Catholic High School, ...

The Soviet Union-era fighter jet, the MiG-21, is called the Fishbed because Soviet and Russian planes rarely receive a ...

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Upon his second tour in Vietnam in January 1971 ... the duo was credited with shooting down a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 of the Vietnamese People’s Air Force (VPAF). On May 8, President Richard ...

During the Vietnam War, Maj. Robert Lodge chose death ... On Feb. 21, 1972, the duo was credited with shooting down a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 of the Vietnamese People’s Air Force (VPAF).

Yet American pilots reported a relatively high kill ratio when faced with the MiG-21—though it must be noted that these figures are hotly debated, even decades after the Vietnam War ended.

By 1968, he was stationed with the 433rd TFS at Ubon Royal Thai Air Base, flying 163 combat missions over North Vietnam and Laos ... out by a civilian-owned MiG-21, the MiG-29 owned by tech ...

Starting in the mid-1960s, North Vietnamese MiG-21 fighters began using K-13s to ... by an American AIM-7D Sparrow recovered by North Vietnam and passed on to China. Intended to arm a planned ...

Several other air forces also commissioned it, including India, North Vietnam, and several Arab states like Egypt, Iraq, and Syria. So, let's go through the history of the MiG-21, the aircraft it ...