Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed / Lancer / Bison
Role: FIGHTER | Period: COLD WAR | Nation: USSR
Category: Fighter, Interceptor, Fighter-bomber
Crew: 1
Engine: One turbojet engine
Manufacturer: Mikoyan-Gurevich
Number built: Approx. 11,496
First flight: 16 June 1955
Introduction: 1959
Main variants
- Ye-2 – Prototype
- MiG-21F – First production version (generation one)
- MiG-21F-13 – Production version (generation one)
- MiG-21PF – Production version (generation two)
- MiG-21FL – Production version (generation two)
- MiG-21PFS – Production version (generation two)
- MiG-21PFM – Production version (generation two)
- MiG-21R – Production version, reconnaissance variant (generation two)
- MiG-21S – Production version (generation two)
- MiG-21M – Production version (generation three)
- MiG-21MF – Production version (generation three)
- MiG-21SM – Production version (generation three)
- MiG-21bis – Production version (generation three)
- MiG-21U – Two-seat training version of the MiG-21F-13
- MiG-21US – Two-seat training version (upgrade of MiG-21U)
- MiG-21UM – Two-seat training version of the MiG-21MF
Operational service
- Operation Trikora (1961-1962)
- Vietnam War (1955–1975, in operation since 1966)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- War of Attrition (1967-1970)
- Indo-Pakistan War (1971)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Angolan Civil War (1975-2002)
- Ogaden War (1977–1978)
- Libyan–Egyptian War (1977)
- Iran–Iraq War (1980-1988)
- Lebanon War (1982-1985)
- Second Congo War (1998-2003)
- Kosovo War (1998-1999)
- Kargil War (1999)
- Libyan Civil War (2011)
- Syrian civil war (2011 – present)
- Libyan Civil War (2014–2020)
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