For sixty years, one fighter jet didn’t just serve India; it forged the nation’s soul. The MiG-21 was never merely a machine threading through monsoon clouds or carving contrails across desert skies.

North Korea wants its neighbors—and the United States—to fear it. That’s difficult to do when one sees how backward its military is. North Korea is a place of contradictions. Barely able to feed its ...

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, the Cold War's defining fighter aircraft and the workhorse for air forces on four continents, sits today at a complicated juncture, its legendary status now inextricably ...

As noted by military aviation expert Stephan Wilkinson, “The Soviets hated [the name], just as they hated Fagot, Faithless, Frogfoot and other Western names for their fighters. The MiG-21 had no ...

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.