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 ...

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 sun is finally setting on the MiG-21, the Indian Air Force’s first supersonic jet fighter that has served for more than six decades. As the aircraft prepares for its final flight on September 19 ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI, July 30 (Reuters) - India will ground all its Soviet-era Russian fighter jets, the MiG-21, by 2025, following the death of two officers in a crash, the latest in a series of casualties ...

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.