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Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Romania had to ground its MiG-21 LanceR fleet earlier this year because the jets were supplied with low-quality jet fuel
Cold War Era / MiG Killers / Military Aviation
We shed light on the Kill scored by Commander Emory Brown against a North Vietnamese MiG-21 (Brown was VF-84 CO when the Jolly Rogers did the flying scenes for the movie “The Final Countdown”)
Aviation History / Military Aviation
The Cuban Air Force pilot that defected to the US with his MiG-23. He then borrowed a Cessna 310, flew back to Cuba and brought his family to America.
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
F-105 pilot Merlyn Dethlefsen made multiple passes to destroy a North Vietnamese SAM site with his Thud heavy damaged by AAA and engaged by MiG-21s
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The story of the North Vietnamese MiG-21 Fishbed fighters tasked to attack USAF EB-66 Destroyer electronic attack aircraft
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Did you know the F-104 had not been the only “Widow Maker?” During the Cold War the MiG-19, MiG-21 and F-100 had high accident rates too
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Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
In 1970s Israeli pilots who would have led Operation Opera went to TOPGUN and taught instructors tactics for F-4 versus MiG-21 and One versus Many
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Exercise Skyshield: the day RAF Vulcan strategic bombers fooled American and Canadian interceptors and penetrated NORAD’s massive surveillance system
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Soviet Pilot who test flew captured F-5 against MiG-21, MiG-23 explains why the Tiger beat the Fishbed, Flogger in every engagement
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Project Featherduster: the exercise that proved the F-104 could have been a better MiG killer than the F-4C, F-105D and F-100D
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Cold War Era / MiG Killers / Military Aviation
The story behind the gun-camera sequences featuring Syrian MiG-21s shot down by Israeli Mirage IIIs
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Israeli Mirage IIIs and Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs Vs Soviet MiG-21s: the day Israeli fighters ambushed Soviet Fishbeds over the Suez Canal
Aviation History / Drones / Military Aviation
The story behind this incredible photo of a North Vietnamese MiG-21 flying extremely close to a Firebee drone (and other BQM-34 tales)
Cold War Era / MiG Killers / Military Aviation
The unknown story of the Israeli F-4s that dogfighted with North Korean MiG-21s during the Yom Kippur War
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
How Iraq opposition to the US policy in Vietnam made the Iraqi Air Force the second-largest operator of MiG-21s in the Middle East
Aviation History / Military Aviation
