India is preparing to say goodbye to its legendary MiG-21 fighters, the country’s first supersonic jets but also an increasingly controversial aircraft, with a spate of accidents in recent years.
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 ...
August 13, 2025: Next month India will retire the last of its Russian-designed MiG-21 fighters. India is the last major country to abandon MiG-21s. This aircraft entered service in 1959. In 1986 ...
NEW DELHI: India has finally retired its last fleet of MiG-21 fighter jets, infamous for decades as “flying coffins” due to their poor safety record. The farewell marks the end of a 63-year-long era, ...
The MiG-21 episode demonstrates that procurement is always strategic. Choices about what aircraft to acquire, who builds them, who supplies the spares, who trains the pilots and technicians are ...
India has retired its last fleet of MiG-21 fighter jets, closing a six-decade chapter with an aircraft once hailed for its combat prowess but later derided as a “flying coffin” due to frequent crashes ...
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