The best-selling French Rafale: the successor to the MiG veteran!
Croatian MiG-21bis over Novo Zagreb (circa 2022).
Croatia plans to retire its MiG fighter jets this year, temporarily handing over control of its airspace to NATO allies until the arrival of the French Rafale.
Mikoyan - Gurevich MiG-21 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor designed by the Mikoyan Design Bureau of the Soviet Union.
Nicknamed "Triangle" by Soviet pilots and "Pencil" by Poles, it was nicknamed the AK-47 of the fighter world.
The Vietnam War is its most widely known battleground, pitting the Americans on F-4s.
As of now, about 60 countries on four continents have flown the MiG-21, and it still serves many countries today.
At the same time, it also set aviation records, becoming the most produced supersonic jet in aviation history, the most produced fighter since the Korean War, and the previously longest-produced fighter (now surpassed by the McDonnell Douglas F-15 aircraft Eagle and General Dynamics' F-16 Fighting Falcon). #Soviet Union ## MiG ## Fighter # # Croatia # # Air Force # # Vietnam War # # NATO # #军事 #
