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T he best Soviet warplane of the Cold War era was, without doubt, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, nicknamed the “Fishbed” by NATO. Introduced in 1959, ...

As Mikoyan-Gurevich, the company behind the fighter jet and what MiG stands for, developed more variants, NATO assigned more derivative names, such as MiG-21 Fishbed-A, MiG-21 Fishbed-B, MiG-21F ...

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During this time, the Russians produced a fighter jet called the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. The plane is “the most-produced supersonic fighter aircraft of all time,” Ziman says. “The Russians built ...

The key for the engineers at the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau was to keep the MiG-21 simple and efficient. Indeed, this tended to be a hallmark of the best Soviet-era weapons platforms.

Romanian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 taxying off the runway at Campia Turzii, 2015. (Photo Credit: Senior Airman Armando A. Schweier-Morales / 86th Airlift Wing, Public Affairs / DVIDS / Public Domain) ...

Summary: The MiG-21, developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich in 1955, stands as a testament to Cold War-era engineering and military strategy.Serving in over 50 countries, this supersonic fighter ...