Mikoyan-Gurevitch MIG 21 - Paloque Gerard
Mikoyan-Gurevitch MIG 21 - Paloque Gerard The MiG-21 originated with an official request from the Soviet authorities in 1954 for a light, high-performance (Mach 2 at 20 000 m) frontline fighter to…
Specifikacia Mikoyan-Gurevitch MIG 21 - Paloque Gerard
Mikoyan-Gurevitch MIG 21 - Paloque Gerard
The MiG-21 originated with an official request from the Soviet authorities in 1954 for a light, high-performance (Mach 2 at 20 000 m) frontline fighter to protect military and production installations from potential raids by American bombers. Used by fifty or so air forces on four of the five continents, the MiG-21 took part in most of the major conflicts during the four last decades, from the Six-Day War in 1967 to the Balkans in 1999. Built for almost half a century in twenty or so different versions, in four successive generations, the "Fishbed" (its NATO codename) was not only the jet which was built in the largest numbers in the whole of aviation history, but also the aircraft which was built in greatest numbers since the end of the Second World War, all types and all countries included.
At the present time more than a thousand examples of this fighter, of which a large number were