The legendary Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter jets, the backbone of the Indian Air Force’s combat fleet for more than six decades, streaked through Indian skies for the last time on Friday (September ...

India's first supersonic fighter aircraft MiG-21 flew into the sunset on Friday, after serving the nation for more than six decades. A farewell ceremony was held at Chandigarh Air Force Station where ...

What Will Happen To MiG-21 Fighter Jets That Retired Today? NDTV Explains Six decades after they were inducted, the Indian Air Force's workhorse, the legendary Russian-origin MiG-21 fighter jets, ...

December 1980. There were seven of us, newly commissioned Pilot Officers (a rank which no longer exists in the Indian Air Force). It was close to the end of our applied course on Iskra TS-11 jet ...

Friday, September 26, 2025. This is the end of an era for the Indian Air Force, one that has lasted over six decades. Today the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 - that most redoubtable of fighter jets, the ...

Between 1971 and April 2012, as many as 482 MiG crashes were reported, killing 171 pilots India retired its last fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets on Friday, ending more than six decades of ...

Russian MiG-29 fighter jets have touched down in Iran, giving the country’s aging air force a short-term boost amid escalating Middle East tensions, an Iranian lawmaker said Tuesday. Abolfazl ...

On September 26, after more than 60 years in operational service, the few MiG-21s still flying in IAF squadrons will be put out to pasture. For a quarter of a century, much of the news about the ...

Alycea Ungaro is the founder of Real Pilates and is a licensed physical therapist and a nationally certified Pilates teacher. In fact, mat Pilates was meant to be the most difficult form of Pilates — ...

Ahead of their retirement after six decades of service, Air Chief Marshal A P Singh and other IAF officers flew MiG-21 sorties as a final farewell. ACM Singh praised the aircraft's agility but ...

Air Marshal Prithvi Singh Brar recounts his experiences flying the MiG-21, highlighting its crucial role in the 1971 Indo-Pak War and its significance as a training platform for generations of IAF ...

If you had told me that swapping my cozy bathroom rug for a diatomaceous earth stone bath mat was on my Bingo card for the year, I would have said, “Diato-what?” I probably watch more HGTV and DIY ...