MiG-21 - Aircraft of Superlatives (original) (raw)

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Home >> English MiG-21 - Aircraft of Superlatives The Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 fighter aircraft (Russian: МиГ-21, NATO codename Fishbed) is: one the most built combat aircraft after World War II the most built supersonic aircraft the longest built combat aircraft with 57 years of production the most widely used combat aircraft and served or serves with about 50 air forces on four continents an aircraft built in 20 different versions of four generations. Even today hundreds of MiG-21s and J-7 / F-7s (Chinese variants) belong to the inventory of world air forces. Beside this the MiG-21 for more than 20 years was the backbone of theAir Force / Air Defence of the GDR (East Germany) where author's dedication to that aircraft started. Notice: English section of this website will not be subject to future update. For updated information please refer to theGerman pages of this website or the publications by theauthor.