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F-21 Is the Best F-16 Fighter Ever (But the Air Force Won’t Get It)
Key Points and Summary – The F-21 is Lockheed Martin’s India-only evolution of the F-16, pitched as a “Make in India” fighter ...
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How The F-16 Stacks Up Against The MiG-35 In 2025
The F-16 Fighting Falcon and the MiG-35 Fulcrum-F are both mature approaches to the modern multirole fighter, but differ significantly in their design. Each can reach about twice the speed of sound, ...
August 13, 2025: Next month India will retire the last of its Russian-designed MiG-21 fighters. India is the last major country to abandon MiG-21s. This aircraft entered service in 1959. In 1986 ...
India’s retirement of its last Mikoyan MiG-21 Bison fighters relegates the iconic Cold War type to uncertain use in a small number of developing world air forces. In a 26 September ceremony at Air ...
In the history of aerial combat, the MiG-21 commands an illustrious history that falls in the same legacy pages as the ubiquitous AK-47 rifles. Introduced back in 1955, the MiG-21 was known for its ...
Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could hold its own against the more sophisticated American jet. The best Soviet ...
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