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Text:  Mig 21

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Who? Mig 21

What? The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union

Where? February 14, 1955

When? 1959

Why? mid-1959 and ended on August 16, 1959, when an Iraqi Air Force MiG-21, flown by the Iraqi Assyrian defector Munir Redfa, landed an air base in Israel. Israel and the United States were able to study the design of the plane.

How? On December 12, 1959, at the height of the India-Pakistan war, one of the most awaited events in aviation history took place. Two MiG-21 fighters of the Indian Air Force’s No.47 squadron, providing air patrol to sensitive installations in western India, intercepted a couple of Pakistan Air Force F-104 Starfighters approaching the city of Jamnagar. The MiGs drew first blood – while one Starfighter managed to flee in the direction of Pakistan, the other one was shot down over the Gulf of Kutch.