The Mighty MiG-21!

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[@ndautomotive]

Fun fact: Romania is using them pretty effectively for air patrolling to this day.

[@Pman353]

Yes and that’s why it’s known as the widow maker in Romania. It’s killed more of its own pilots than enemies…

[@unknown30895]

@@Pman353 no that's the nickname for the f104

[@larou14]

@@Pman353 Omg...it's a killer !!! 😪

[@Pman353]

@@unknown30895 I said “In Romania”…

[@pedrorodriguescoradini7946]

​@@Pman353 it looks like an f104 or a mig 23

[@casemotube]

How to design a supersonic aircraft: 1) attach wings to jet engine. 2) attach tail to jet engine. 3) attach cockpit to jet engine. 4) review 1, 2, and 3, then fuel aircraft. 5) attach pilot to seat and fly. 6) review 4 and 5. 7) begin mass production.

[@redacted25353]

Precisely

[@kv-2723]

Yes

[@poloska9471]

You forgot step 0: tell Congress it costs at least $1B to create

[@casemotube]

@MisoVFB picky picky picky lol. 👍🏼

[@clan_houltz]

@MisoVFB do you tho?

[@doodskie999]

Basically a rocket with a cockpit and wings attached to it

[@monkesoldier3002]

Check out f104

[@yusufyilmaz5317]

@@monkesoldier3002 You mean the Widowmaker? Yeah that thing has very stubby wings and caused a lot of problems especially while take off and landing. Deserved it's name.

[@saldol9862]

Not a rocket technically

[@dimasakbar7668]

That also goes for F-16, but the Viper had inlet slanted downward, which provide room for substantial radar emitter

[@bl0ckymonkey]

That’s basically every plane

[@ovDarkness]

This one is from Polish Airforce! They were used by 28th Fighter Regiment (among the others) that was stationed in Redzikowo (now US airbase) near my birthplace - Słupsk.

[@nort_1038]

Polska gurom 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

[@Justpolski]

Polska best😊

[@oldlonewolf9649]

Tak myślałem że to Redzikowo

[@TELEGUN102pl]

siemq

[@jayredwoods8290]

Originally used by Russia if I recall

[@TonixCr0]

Croatia did prety impresive things in 1991-1995 war with that plane and Mig Well handled it

[@Olszymanski]

How to make your own MiG-21 1. Attach wings to a jet engine 2. Attach seat to jet engine

[@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL]

And Add controls, a hydraulic system, avionics, and a canopy over the pilot seat

[@Olszymanski]

@@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL (optional)

[@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL]

@@Olszymanski ain’t gonna fly if nothing is controlling the jet engine…unless it’s a rocket engine tho 😏

[@Olszymanski]

@@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL no

[@Cussingpenguin]

Mig 21: j-j-just le-t me d-ie

[@rhysgoodman7628]

The Fishbed never dies. Indian ones can even fire R-27s and R-77s.

[@basharassadreal1971]

@@rhysgoodman7628 it’s old technology that should be thrown out if that country wants to defend itself effectively

[@shubhamjuvatkar4023]

​@@basharassadreal1971 Indian pilot were still able to defend the country. But yeah, it's high time our country just replaced them with other fighter jets 😂

[@chickencurry7642]

​@@shubhamjuvatkar4023 they are in the process of. The Tejas jets are replacing the mig21s

[@JohnWick-yh5kn]

F-4 killer

[@aayanscreativelab1786]

Fun fact: I used to think the mig-21’s nose was a big missile it could use to cause serious damage.

[@mark679]

In reality it's just a place where the radar hides.

[@anupamdaimari.0590]

In India it’s infamously called as flying coffin because of so many accidents due to old age

[@KatariaGujjar]

Not due to old age but poor maintenance and bad piloting. All Indian aircraft suffer similar attrition rates. Mig21 attrition rate is the highest because it flies the most and is cheaper to fly per hour.

[@guywhoedits]

​@@KatariaGujjar corruption is a big problem

[@kyototomokui6676]

MiG 21: the best air patrol Romania ever had.

[@desperatetogetsomehoes]

There is one on display in Kecskemét, Hungary in the middle of a roundabout

[@jacobmccandles1767]

Thank you for the info!

[@beyondrecall9446]

In Serbia (Vojvodina /Vajdasag) in Novi Sad (Ujvidek) we used to have a fuselage of one hanging from a ceiling of a venue where we used to have gigs some 10 - 15 years ago.. I remember being a 15 zear old punk and I was up un the cockpit (as you could clunb up the stairs and go around the plane) and as I drank my bear, I threw the bottle and it hit some skinhead (a red, communist skinhead) , one crazy mofu**ka from the older crew .. He ran up all bloody to get to me and, luckily, there were some older Skins and Punks from his crew there who saved me from having my head kicked in.. But he did still break a bottle over my head a few years later, but not deliberate, we had a fight with Partizan hooligans and his bottle missed so it was karma, just delayed

[@Leonard7]

​@@beyondrecall9446 this is like the most characteristic Serbian thing i have ever heard. Good story😅✌️

[@gibraanjafar1669]

Here in India it has another nickname : The Flying Coffin.

[@luckyone78]

Also the back bone / aggressor

[@Ulatimber]

​@@luckyone78backbone we have largest fleet of su30s and soon largest of rafale.after the tenders for 114 gets completed +26.for navy 36 already ordered

[@daveware4117]

Ive heard the mig-21 refered to as the AK-47 of jet fighters. Cheap, easy to maintain, easy to produce in large numbers.

[@javo2432]

If someone is wondering, this mig was used in polish airforce

[@Mike-pn3eg]

Fun story Elgin AFB has a mig 21 at the Airforce armament museum here in FL. No one at the museum when it opened knew where the aircraft came from or who really donated it. Years later when the partially took it apart to move it and repaint it they found the AA cannon was still 100% operational and had not been demilitarized.

[@hippo6423]

POLAND MIG LET'S GOO 💪💪🇵🇱🇵🇱

[@jayredwoods8290]

These jets were used by Russia before Poland even touched an aircraft

[@georgiebestmanutd4746]

The chief engineer for F16, Pierre Sprey mentioned that Mig 21 will defeat F 35 in dogfight

[@shreyanghosh758]

Well he was right partly bcoz mig 21 shot down f-16

[@chickencurry7642]

Drop the stealth and BVR attack missiles from modern jets (even F35s) and the Mig-21 can ALMOST go toe-to-toe with them.

[@adillakandi.r]

F-35 is most likely a flying brick just like the phantom, no wonder they get beaten by this mig over Vietnam

[@eessaumer3225]

​@@shreyanghosh758liar

[@user-rs3jn1sg9z]

He isn't the chief engineer for the F-16. Everything that guy says is bullshit. He just gets payed by Russia today to talk shit about new US/NATO tech (the channel Lazerpig has some good videos on him and the rest of the so-called "fighter plane mafia"). Not to mention the F-35 won't need to enter a dogfight because it can just launch a missile 30 kilometers away.

[@prikkel_]

My grandfather has a Mig-21 in his backyard

[@ChacalChacal-jo6qt]

Is it a polish mig?

[@rptor435]

Yep. The marking on the vertical stabilizer is of the Polish Air Force. Soviets used to export some of their aircrafts to Eastern Block when Warsaw pact was a thing; and that's why you could find MiGs 21 all over Europe.

[@-_________________________]

Yesssss

[@ovDarkness]

Yes, Polish Airforce was almost 600 of them.

[@JohnSmith-oh9ux]

@@ovDarkness Nie "was" (było) tylko "had" (miało).

[@saulgoodman1046]

​@@rptor435

[@racingraptor4758]

I see its a Polish one! We have entire ,,valley of MiGs,, in Krakow aviation museum.

[@basharassadreal1971]

Nice to see you have a Polish one there

[@OyennnKun]

Wow very beautiful one,the fact that it still use until this day is amazing for me

[@yanosik5665]

Oh its a polish one too,thats nice

[@sethf2258]

You guys are criminally undersubbed

[@sureshkrishnan3719]

we in India are using it even today.lovely machine

[@ellisbkennedy652]

Always loved this thing, a pig and a pencil altogether

[@GlitchedBlox]

When the pencil sharpener starts acting up.

[@basharassadreal1971]

😐

[@mapuia_sixx1583]

"Hit and Run" tactic is like a gangster drive by 😂

[@JohnWick-yh5kn]

Phantom killer👍

[@wardeztorier3929]

OOH mate I see you have a Polish mig 21 there . NICE

[@larou14]

Wouahhh...1959 ?!?!

[@LBCB94025]

the 'rate of clime'/top-speed combined with its "world beating" cannons made it Exceptional! but it Wasnt without faults* it had poor turning capabilities at high speeds(especially to the Right*) made it easy to counter and with its low survivability (but lacking saftey features* made it hard to walk away from even if bailing out*) but it had Pretty good upkeep/management characteristics* compared to the F4phantom*

[@LBCB94025]

but the main thing that had going for it was Russia peddling it at a low price with a whole Entourage of support&pilots* - and providing trained pilots to come in and train New pilots! some of these pilots even engaged in combat! as other pilots in the Korean war and Vietnam war had encountered Russians (you could tell by how good they were at flying and the fact that they were white people and not Asian (and wore different patches) *_not to mention our espionage department found this out_* (not to mention speaking Russian over radios*)

[@cjwrench07]

It’s a good thing they had those fences, they kept the air from defecting down the wing.

[@64maxpower]

my favorite jet

[@koimananana]

Trigger looking at this aircraft: perfect.

[@Big_boy01470]

OMG!!!😱😱😱 its the plane from war thunder 😱😱😱

[@ac-bc5108]

my favorite fighters are mig 15 mig 21 and F15 . I don't know about their specs but they look magnificent

[@mahamudulhasan5093]

Legendary Dogfighter

[@ukaszandruszkiewicz]

Where did you find it? I'm asking because it has Polish insignia on its tail. So called "chessboard" 👍👍👍

[@adamc.sieracki4145]

Simply elegant.

[@liambrooks2682]

It's a SR71 one engine, but less cool (but still pretty cool) and with wings and a cockpit

[@slyme-the-toaster]

Fun fact: mig21 was originally used to pretty much blow the sr71 out of the sky during the Soviet war

[@maksymiliantrybuch5396]

Wow you have polish mig that’s awesome

[@voizek]

Mig21 is my favorite jet

[@beyondrecall9446]

it holds the altitude record for the year 1964 reaching 114.000ft or 34km ... The Mig 25 managed to go up to 118.000 ft, 36km While the record for the SR-71 is 85.000 ft or 25km

[@jamesbugbee9026]

Very pretty in Polish ensignia

[@user-sq7ug8yz7o]

It’s literally a pin with a protractor under the clip.

[@kgliniecki]

Funny to see you guys have old polish air force MIG

[@somebritishguy8022]

Fun Fact: One crashed during the cold war into a river in germany. The Brits got there first and nicked the rader, later used in the Lightning

[@muhammadsiraj5537]

The Kalashnikov of the Air

[@RoyanGreenwood23]

I keep thinking that Scott Manley is commentating this hahaha

[@sundelight8230]

Indian Air Force loved them

[@zafarabbas1839]

Oh it's that Tea is fantastic jet 🤣🤣🤣

[@robbysg40]

Oo 93k surrender army fan boy spotted 🤗🤗🤗

[@zafarabbas1839]

@@robbysg40 oohh samba scandal boy spotted 🤣🤣🤣

[@godlevel480]

@@zafarabbas1839 yes tea is fantastic now your country can't afford tea Ek cup hi chai piye kyuki tea import karne ke liye paisa nahi hai: Pak minister 🤣🤣

[@zafarabbas1839]

@@godlevel480 😂😂 Keh wo rha ha jis ka apna mulk world hunger index mein Pakistan se peechay ha, ar Sirf Afghanistan se aagay ha 😂😂😂🤣

[@vivekanandan5093]

@@zafarabbas1839 still lot better than terrorist nation.... Btw how's tamatar and 1 liter aata ??? (And that idiot used to be ur PM 🤣 lol he doesn't even know difference between liter and grams 🤣) and here you are commenting about tea, indexes and kudh ki mulk dimag se zyada bheek se guzara kar raha hai... Beggar 🤣

[@gator6764]

we flew the wooooooooooook to polaaaaaaand

[@Luke0v]

In war thunder this thing it scares me

[@christian-zf3di]

My favorite fact about the mig-21 is it’s radar was cooled by vodka, which of course it would be

[@sirensandaircraft9611]

I've seen one of these before. I think I've seen one at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ and another one next to a Mig 15 at Glendale Airport in Glendale, AZ

[@greystripesleeps]

Rip b17 and p63 😞

[@deang8910]

Does that nose cone move in and out to vary the air pressure along the inlet?

[@kerbol3757]

Yeah, the system is automatic but has a manual override that locks the nose into a low speed position if the automatic governor is damaged.

[@thorkik3446]

Polish air force YEAH!!!

[@Khatakhat_Tharki]

The Falcon Slayer!!!

[@foxhound3124]

Hello my distant cousin !!!

[@l77mikks]

Hey! That's a Polish air force insignia on the tail! 🇵🇱

[@nasirmir8771]

Flying coffin is it's another nickname

[@DZ-qj5br]

Fun fact:the mig 21 dominates early f4's in vietnam because of them having guns while the f4 don't

[@SovietHighCommand]

ive nicknamed this the flying cigarette of death bcs i love this thing in war thunder

[@JesseJames-kv7xc]

It's beautifull

[@ddvette]

Gave the US Phantoms in Vietnam all they ever wanted.

[@Myrtlebeachskyline]

Where did fishbed come from? I’ve always wondered how someone looked at this aircraft and said yup, fishbed.

[@JohnSmith-oh9ux]

From nomenclature of nick naming fighters with "F" and bombers with "B", hence i.e. "Fishbed" and "Badger"

[@DrSabot-A]

It's NATO term for USSR/Russian combat planes to start with "F". For example, the MiG-25 is called "Foxbat" but doesnt really look like a fox or a bat. The MiG-15 as called "Fagot" but isnt really gay or homosexual

[@CFA-44_Nosferatu]

"mighty MIG-21" F-22a raptor: at least your better than the SU-57

[@mowgli2071]

It seems almost like the aerial version of the AK-47

[@Unmatchedpowerofthesun]

It’s still used too

[@combat5seven357]

Ah yes the flying green crayon

[@DZ-qj5br]

Fun fact:the mig 21 had a cousin similar to it but instead used swept back wings design

[@Shadow_Hertz]

India 🇮🇳 still uses about 50 Mig-21 Bison and it have a nickname too that is the 'flying coffin' cause the no. Of accidents it have 😅

[@vahanara]

In 2013 Draken Int.(US) bought 25 Polish MiG's-21

[@Cube-3710]

Finnish Air Force used the MiG-21F-13 from 1964 to 1978 and the last variant until 1998.

[@glenn4412]

Excellent point defense fighter, soviet designers got it right.

[@-_________________________]

Polish mig lesssssss gooooooo

[@slenderfan-101j.g.4]

I always thought that the mig 21's wingspan was rather short, only 7+ meters overall (i personally would choose 10 or 12 meters for it's design) Yes I know this was to increase speed and such, But personally i rather choose turning radius and acrobatic maneuverability above speed (which you don't need because of the exceptionally powerful supersonic engine and delta wing design) Besides that, a wider wingspan will also increase fuel capacity and also operational range

[@Justin-yt7pi]

Those things look like something that’ll come out of the Jetson’s.

[@MrKamei]

India: I am still holding on to this

[@Adusinecekko_11]

in air muzeum Kunovice we Have a mig 21mf And it look's like new

[@ruskidoggo7154]

no f104 starfighter is the pencil

[@AlexteryT]

The Flying coffin !

[@some_dudes8138]

quite kid grab pencil in his bag* the pencil:

[@vineshcivil9559]

IAF mig 21 bison. The F-16 killer.

[@seancalasara2345]

MY MAN SAID MACH 2 😮

[@accountforcommenting]

IAF still uses upgraded versions of Mig 21 called Mig 21 bison

[@cg11warriors]

The Flying coffin

[@hfmexe0657]

You're wrong, that's the Mig Twenty Juan.

[@muhammadisraar544]

fantastic 😂

[@soumyaranjankailash4479]

f16💥

[@TheCanadianCommunist]

The flying pencil

[@daniyalnaeem3796]

Flying Coffin 🤘🏼

[@TentaolaNwng]

F4, F5, B52 🙃

[@kindra11111]

I'm surprised how cccp mig 19 (one of their most elegant, most beautiful designed jets in history) has almost no history or videos about it 😳

[@elmob6981]

Fun fact: Actually,the mig 15 is the most produced supersonic jet of all time with 18,000+ produced

[@DrSabot-A]

MiG-15 was never subsonic, it was close transonic

[@theonefrancis696]

Probably my favorite fighter jet of all time. Absolutely unreliable, dangerous and taped together, with a vodka-generating radar.

[@user-mv9lr6mh2z]

ที่จิงมันมีรุปทรงที่เหมือนยานเอเลี่ยน มากที่สุดเพราะมันเหมือนท่อนซุง ที่บินได้ แต่มันแค่ติดปีก สามเหลียม

[@gerardojimenez8063]

I think this is the Castile Air Museum in Atwater Ca!

[@NickRow007]

Oh wait! That's a flying coffin.