Stick an ex-Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 onto a modern battlefield with advanced contemporary weaponry, and the results are bound to be like bringing a butter knife to a machete fight. As ...

It was Valentine's Day 1955 in the erstwhile Soviet Union. On that winter morning - the high was just under -5 degrees Celsius - there was something in the air at Zhukovsky Airfield, an airbase some ...

The article features a 1974 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21UM, a Soviet-era jet trainer, as "Today's Top Pick" available for private purchase. It notes the expansion of the "warbird" category to include ...

The iconic Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, the fighter aircraft that served the Indian Air Force (IAF) for more than 60 years, was decommissioned on Friday. The Russian-origin warhorse. which was inducted in ...

India's first supersonic fighter aircraft MiG-21 flew into the sunset on Friday, after serving the nation for more than six decades. A farewell ceremony was held at Chandigarh Air Force Station where ...

Aviation technology has come a long way. When Orville and Wilbur Wright completed their first true flight in December 1903, they could scarcely have imagined what the future of flight had in store.

India has retired its last fleet of MiG-21 fighter jets, closing a six-decade chapter with an aircraft once hailed for its ...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh, while bidding farewell to Russian-origin MiG-21 fighter jet on Friday in Chandigarh, hailed how it is also a proof of the deep ties shared by India and Russia. Rajnath ...

Singh was addressing a gathering on the occasion of the decommissioning ceremony of the Russian-origin MiG-21 at the Chandigarh Air Force Station here. The iconic Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter jets, ...

Between 1971 and April 2012, as many as 482 MiG crashes were reported, killing 171 pilots India retired its last fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets on Friday, ending more than six decades of ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India retired its last fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets Friday, ending more than six decades of service with an aircraft once celebrated for its combat prowess but later ...