In November 1964, two of the most modern fighters in the Middle East confronted in combat for the first time. Israeli Mirage ...

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

The IAF will probably face China’s second fifth-generation jet, J-35A, in a war with Pakistan as Beijing has fast-tracked ...

“We’re going to make stuff out of beads that is going to take people’s breath away,” says Ralph Ziman in the trailer for “The MiG-21 Project,” a military jet that he and a transcontinental team coated ...

Compared to the capable MiG-21, which was built in Tblisi ... The Fulcrum’s ability to lock a missile even though its nose was pointed far away from its target “watered many eyes,” says ...

At that moment, Habib noticed a MiG-21 to his right. As he pulled up to convert behind the MiG-21 his auto-pitch control malfunctioned and the aircraft nose started oscillating. After disengaging the ...

Early Phantoms came without a nose-mounted gun ... Though outclassed in short order by the MiG-21, the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact member states nonetheless built around 10,000 MiG-19s ...

The FC-1, known as the JF-17 in Pakistan, showcases features from both the F-16 and MiG-21, including an F-16-style nose and tail with a MiG-21 wing design. The latest variant of the JF-17 boasts ...

Starting in the mid-1960s, North Vietnamese MiG-21 fighters began using K-13s to shoot ... due to its distinctive second canard fin near the nose. China canceled production of conceptually similar ...

A nose-mounted radar facilitates enemy detection ... Its ground attack loadout is similar to that of the MiG-21, though it can carry more weapons. But its air-to-air loadout is where it shines.

What makes the MiG-21 such a terrifying jet fighter is its striking appearance. It has a prominent delta wing shape as well as a unique fuselage that features a pointed nose and an inlet cone.

Aircraft that have successfully performed this maneuver are the F-22, Su-30, Su-35, Su-37, Su-47, Su-57 and MiG ... aircraft's nose back down at a negative angle to regain lift. The maneuver (or a ...