Russia's Best Fighter Jet Ever Made - The Mig 21

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[jcy]

The Mig-21 was literally a flying AK-47, easy to mass produce and able to operate in a whole range of environments, even by developing countries with barebones air forces.

[MrStevemur]

The story of the non-exploding Sidewinder missile is one of the craziest things I’ve heard. Imagine that Chinese pilot: “I’m dead! No wait, I’m a hero bringing back priceless treasure!”

[chinuexe]

I once had two IAF MiG-21s fly above my house, banking almost at 90 degrees. Even on idle power they're so loud you'd feel like a bomb dropped next to you.

[alejandrocasalegno]

The MiG-21 at 0.13 with Pam Thuan is the real plane used to atack the B-52, the bort number is "5121"....survived the war and is in the Hanoi museum declared as "National Tresure".

[quannguyenhong]

The Ha Noi air battle, 12 days of nightmares, for anyone who dont know, this is the last air battle has ace pilots, mostly Vietnamese pilot on mig 21, mig 17, the guy called Pham Tuan in the video has most kills, he shoot down 9 US aircrafts, included a B52, he is still alive, a great hero of Viet Nam.

[dragonstormdipro]

India used the MiG 21s in ground attack roles too, with excellent success. In fact, MiG 21s are widely regarded as the jet that won India the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War

[hoangnguyenviet]

According to pilots that shot down the B-52s, one missile is not enough to take a B-52 down right away. They had to launch 2 consecutively once got in the range and pull up immediately to avoid debris. If the B-52s got hit by one missile, they would be able to escape Vietnam's airspace and the US would not count the kill by VPAF

[moziwarthunder]

You should really keep up this format, I really like stories about real aircraft!

[geeknproud]

The Mig-21 is an enigma. So old the dinosaurs flew them, but just had the raw specs and modularity to keep it relevant way past reasonable. Like to the point where they were a threat to decades newer designs by virtue of their speed alone. A lot of planes had to develop certain tactics to handle them because they couldn't just run away. A rare problem when facing a fighter this old. When it was brand new it was probably the best fighter in the world hands down. Modern avionics(at least as modern as a Mig-21 gets) and newer weapons keep it deadly even today.

[MarkB-uuwe]

As a guy who has built hundreds of plastic aircraft models (including rare and complex "Amodel" kits like the Ye-2), a self confessed military buff who loves the raw era of jet aircraft, ie: USAF Century series including the F-110A Phantom before it became the F-4. Self confessed know it all as well about The MiG history, great video from another fellow Aussie (including the Avion RAAF F-86 Sabre in your video), and this is probably my most favourite USSR aircraft of all time (loved the Flogger and Foxbat too).

[theogunesekara]

What a magnificent Aircraft. The brilliant pilots of the NVAF were the most adept users of the MiG-21. They did amazing things with a handful of Aircraft against all odds.

[samyrrakoto]

Just wanted to say thanks for your videos, I'm really passionate about aviation and you're always in my bedtime playlist. The 10-20min duration is just perfect, long enough to have the distraction and thirst of knowledge and short enough to see more !

Keep it up man, thanks for the awesome work.

[Kchandrashekaran]

I am surprised you did not mention about Indian air force. MiG21 is still in use and heavily modernised by the IAF

[dreamhunter]

The Mig 21 is one of the best and feared jets of its And one of the best jets ever made, relative of its time

[wardfrak]

One of the most beautiful jets ever build for sure. The vid is so great and the goodbye was on point)

[MikoyanGurevichMiG]

Thank you for doing my life story justice. You really got down to the important points of my long and illustrious career. How crazy that I'm still flying around today!

[hrishijagadees]

MiG 21 is one of those rare masterpiece of engineering that just refuse to die..Like the B52 herself.

[Thanatos]

The basic platform of the mig 21 is so good that it is perhaps the only fighter aircraft that spanned 2 fighter generations, it started as a second generation fighter, but with upgrades it became a 3rd generation fighter. Via its Chinese variant, the J7, it evolved into a 4.5 generation fighter, in the form of the JF 17. In fact, the mig 21 was good enough, that it prevented more widespread induction of its successor, the Mig 23.

[Aspirxx]

Is this also a hint that Found & Explained would also do a video on MiG-21's main rival in Vietnam the F-4 Phantom?? As per usual this is a great and informative video!

[RS-jpfq]

In 2019, an IAF MiG-21 Bison shot down a Pakistani F-16. Both the aircraft were shot down, but the IAF Pilot survived but the Pakistani pilot didn't. While MiG-21 may be really old, it isn't yet outdated.