{"id":16820,"date":"2025-07-24T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16820"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:08:34","slug":"mig-21-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mig-21-fighter-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Mig-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mig-21 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Air Force is set to retire Russian-made MiG-21 Bison fighter jets by September, marking an end of an era for one of its longest-serving aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mig-21<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>supersonic jet fighter aircraft<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (OKB) of the erstwhile<\/span><b> Soviet Union.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First <\/span><b>inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF) in 1963,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the MiG-21 is <\/span><b>India&#8217;s first-ever supersonic jet.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s <\/span><b>Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) built 657 MiG-21s under a license<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that was granted by Russia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>second most produced jet aircraft in the world.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>NATO reporting name is \u2018Fishbed\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Other <\/span><b>nicknames include \u2018Balalaika\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because its planform resembles the stringed musical instrument of the same name; <\/span><b>\u2018O\u0142\u00f3wek\u2019 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Polish for \u2018pencil\u2019), due to the shape of its fuselage; and <\/span><b>\u2018\u00c9n B\u1ea1c\u2019, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meaning \u2018silver swallow\u2019 in Vietnamese.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MiG-21 ha<\/span><b>s seen more conflicts than any other fighter <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in history.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The MiG-21 <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">participated in<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">nearly every war or conflict India has faced since 1963<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars, the 1999 Kargil War,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Balakot airstrikes in 2019, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and most recently, <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Operation Sindoor.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/photogallery\/india\/indian-air-force-to-retire-mig-21-fighter-jets-a-look-at-iafs-fighter-jets-and-aircrafts-ws-l-9458593.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">N18<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MiG-21 is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft developed by the Soviet Union, widely used for its speed, agility, and combat capabilities. 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