After more than six decades of service, the Indian Air Force prepares to finally phase out its first supersonic jet in September. Let's look at the story of a fighter plane nicknamed the 'Flying ...

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.

It was Valentine's Day 1955 in the erstwhile Soviet Union. On that winter morning - the high was just under -5 degrees Celsius - there was something in the air at Zhukovsky Airfield, an airbase some ...

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 ...