From 'Fishbed to Bis.
This is perhaps the most built fighter jet aircraft in the world and it is still flying today, with an updated Israel ELBIT cockpit package. The Mig-21 served with 28 Air forces, apart from the Soviet Union and China. There were initially nine versions of the type and one two-seat training version of the aicraft code-named Mongol.
The Mig-21 jet carried a plethora of combinations of weapons, bombs, rockets, missiles and guns. It fought in many Arab and middle-eastern wars, but it was no match for the French Mirage family or the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom-II. Otherwise it was a very versitle and effective weapons platform.
Today there are still three upgrades on this type, as it continues to operate.
China produced its own copy the Xian J-7/F-7. Airguard.
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