Indian Air Force says will retire all squadrons of MiG-21 by 2025 'No more flying coffins' ... On Thursday evening, a MiG-21 Type 69 Trainer aircraft crashed in Barmer, Rajasthan killing both the ...

Indian Air Force’s MiG-21. Key Things to Know Designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (OKB) of the erstwhile Soviet Union, the MiG-21 is India’s longest-serving fighter plane.

For the last time MiG-21 fighter jets of the Indian Air Force will fly in India as well as globally in any air-display later this week as part of 91st ... such as the Type-77, Type-96, and the ...

S ome of the Indian Air Force’s last Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter jets have silently bid adieu to their home base at Suratgarh in Rajasthan and been relocated by IAF to the sprawling Nal ...

It has operated a raft of MiG-21 variants -- Type 74, Type 76, Type 77, Type 96, Type 75 or MiG 21 Bis and the MiG-21 Bison. The MiG-21 has been the most flown fighter aircraft in IAF.

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to retire a squadron of MiG-21 Bison aircraft by September 30. Thereafter, only three squadrons of the aircraft will remain in service, which would be ...

NEW DELHI: Amid recent crashes involving its vintage Russian combat aircraft fleet, the Indian Air Force (iaf) is now going to retire one more squadron of the MiG-21 Bison aircraft by September 30.

MiG 21 Crash 2022: The Indian Air Force's four existing squadrons of the ageing MiG-21s fleet are expected to be grounded by 2025. The supersonic fighter jets were inducted by the IAF in 1963.

A day after reports arrived that the Indian Air Force is going to retire one more squadron of the MiG-21 Bison aircraft by 30 September, another report says that India will ground all its Soviet ...

Since 1963, India acquired over 700 MiG-21 aircraft of different versions, such as the Type-77, Type-96, and the BIS. The most recent variant is the MiG-21 Bison, featuring advanced missiles ...

The IAF is set to receive at least six Tejas light combat aircraft by March 2026, as confirmed by HAL chairman D K Sunil.

The Soviet Union-era fighter jet, the MiG-21, has a peculiar name used by other pilots: ... The Type-77 variant used by the Indian Air Force earned itself the "Runway Busters" sobriquet.