MiG-21.de in a new look: The website has been completely revised and has been online in a new layout since today. New features include clearer navigation, larger pictures, a search function and English versions of all pages – from the archive and the album to the bibliography. The author welcomes any reports of errors or broken links.
The Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 fighter aircraft (Russian: МиГ-21, ASCC reporting name Fishbed) is:
- one the most built combat aircraft at all
- 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 the Air Force / Air Defence of the GDR (East Germany) where author's dedication to that aircraft started.
MiG-21.de news:
The author's article The last Mi-24s of NATO fly in Poland (in German) has been published on flugrevue.de.
Not only in Poland is a MiG-21 being restored (see news of July 19), but also in Germany, more precisely at Elbe Flugzeugwerke Dresden. However, this is only a museum aircraft.
… more in the archive.