Bikaner (Rajasthan) [India], August 26 (ANI): The last recorded kill of the Indian Air Force's (IAF) legendary MiG-21 Bison fighter jet was a Pakistani F-16 in 2019, following the Balakot operations, ...

At longer ranges, the edge shifts to whichever aircraft detects its opponent first. Late-model F-16s carry advanced AESA radars paired with combat-proven AIM-120 missiles. The MiG-35 can wield the ...

Ahead of the official retirement of the MiG-21 fighter planes, Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh and pilots take a few sorties in the aircraft. Air Force Spokesperson, Wing Commander ...

Many MiG-21s ended up as ground attack aircraft. The aircraft has an internal 23mm autocannon and 300 rounds of ammunition. Only four bombs, no heavier than half a ton each, can be carried. Pods with ...

The Indian Air Force is bidding adieu to its iconic MiG‑21 fighter jets. The Soviet-origin aircraft were first inducted into ...

The MiG-21 episode demonstrates that procurement is always strategic.Choices about what aircraft to acquire, who builds them, ...

In 1961, Beijing and Moscow signed an agreement to produce the MiG-21 in China. A China-built F-7 fighter jet, operated by the Bangladesh Air Force, crashed into a college building in Dhaka, killing ...

When Sunny Deol’s Border hit the screens in 1997, audiences were gripped by its dramatic retelling of the 1971 Battle of Longewala. While the film immortalised the grit of Indian soldiers on the ...

It was Valentine's Day 1955 in the erstwhile Soviet Union. On that winter morning - the high was just under -5 degrees Celsius - there was something in the air at Zhukovsky Airfield, an airbase some ...

Between 1966 and 1980, India inducted a total of 872 MiG variants, making it one of the most widely used aircraft in IAF ...

Two more F-16 Block 70 fighter jets are set to arrive in Bulgaria in the coming days, but for the next few months the country’s airspace will ...