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F-4 Phantoms & Vietnamese MiG-21s Face Off in Aerial Dogfight

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. It's April 1972, and a team of F-4 Phantoms are on a hunting mission, high above the skies of Vietnam. But they'll need to be careful: the Russian ...
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Why The MiG-21 Was The Most Feared Soviet Fighter Jet During The Vietnam War

The peculiarly-named MiG-21 Fishbed was a menace over the skies of Vietnam and embodied the Soviet knack for simple, effective war machines. Its tiny but lethal design was more than enough to give ...
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Why the MiG-21 Fighter Jet Is Still Revered in Modern Warfare

The MiG-21 is a storied fighter that has seen service not only in the old Soviet Air Force but throughout the world. First developed in 1955 and deployed into Soviet service in 1959, this was a ...
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For Ten Years, This USAF Squadron Kept Enemy Soviet Fighter Jets at Area 51

If you could draw a comparison between the Soviet MiG-21 jet interceptor and a piece of popular Western media, the Star Wars TIE Fighter would probably be appropriate. For decades, the MiG-21 was the ...
Stars and Stripes

Millions of glass beads turn Cold War-era Soviet fighter into art at the Museum of Flight

SEATTLE — A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting their MiG-21 fighter jets. But in Seattle, a surplus variant of the ...