MiG-21s

Type: Product

Name: MiG-21s

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

WINNING: The North Korean Solution

: Some 70 percent of North Korean ground forces are within a hundred kilometers of the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone, the border with the south.) This is the main threat to South Korea but two decades of money, fuel and food shortages have greatly reduced North ... [Published Strategy Page - May 15 2013]

Entities: North Korea, South Korea, Korean People's Air Force

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

India To Operate MiG 21s Until 2017, Completes 50 Years In Service

Fifty years on, the Indian Air Force continues to rely on MiG-21s.Fifty years since it first took to the Indian skies, the MiG 21 continues to fly high and shows no signs of slowing down operations.The single-engine aircraft will continue to remain in ... [Published Defense World - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: MiG-21, Air-to-Air Missile, India, Indian Air Force, F-16 Fighting Falcon

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Romanian Air Force

Romanian Air Force to buy F-16 fighter jets

Romania is going to acquire a set of F-16s in the near future. The bargain offer comes from Portugal that has been undergoing serious financial problems due to the latest financial crisis. Image Credit: cavok-aviation-photos.net Dusa, Romanian ... [Published The Aviationist - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Romanian Air Force, F-16 Fighting Falcon, Fighter aircraft, MiG-21

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

MiG-21

Plot to smuggle Mig-21s to North Korea fails...

: North Korea’s smuggling operation has had many successes in obtaining spare parts for its aging air force.But sometimes these efforts fail in a spectacular way.One of these failures became known after the head of the Mongolian Air Force recently resigned ... [Published Luchtzak Aviation - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: MiG-21s, North Korea, MiG-21, Fighter aircraft, Smuggling

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

F-16 Fighting Falcon

Romania to purchase 12 Portuguese F-16 aircraft

Bucharest, Romania - The fighters will replace part of the fleet of MiG-21s of the East-European country ... [Published Avio News - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: F-16 Fighting Falcon, Romania, MiG-21s

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 2 reports

'Russia provides latest military tech exclusively to India'

NEW DELHI: Russia today reminded India that it provides latest cutting-edge technology exclusively to New Delhi unlike its "newly-acquired partners" in defence sector."Unlike its newly-acquired partners, we provide the latest cutting-edge technology to ... [Published Economic Times - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: MiG-21s, India, MiG-21, Russia, Military/Armed Forces

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Indian Air Force

Defence minister praises IAF as aircraft crashes fall to record low

By One hears of combat jets crashing every now and then, but the Indian Air Force (IAF) has actually been able to bring down its accident rate. The IAF's performance on the flight safety front has been its best so far.Last year, in 2012-13, the air force ... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Indian Air Force, Pranab Kumar Barbora, MiG-21s

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

IAF equipped to deal with warfare on two frontiers

In 2009, a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) had approved the armed forces’ postulation of a possible simultaneous two-front conventional war with China and Pakistan. Four years later, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has become the first of ... [Published New Indian Express - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: MiG-21s, Helicopter, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company, Operational Training, Airborne Warning and Control System

First reported Apr 13 2013 - Updated Apr 13 2013 - 1 reports

Beware the Revisionists

Op-Ed: The distortion of truth by Israel's enemies knows no bounds. A little known event that occurred this week and had enormous consequences.Ari Lieberman, View from NYThe writer is an attorney and former prosecutor who writes on Israel military ma ... [Published Israel National News - Apr 13 2013]

Entities: Six-Day War, Israel, Jordan, Israel Defense Forces

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

Mongolian general probed for North Korean jet deal

Investigators this week confirmed the probe into Brigadier General Tojoon Dashdeleg. The deal to sell salvaged parts from about 20 disused MiG-21s dates from 2011. Investigators say they started looking into it after a North Korean envoy complained to ... [Published Eureka Times-Standard - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: North Korea, MiG-21s, Pyongyang

First reported Jan 09 2013 - Updated Jan 09 2013 - 1 reports

Does Indian Air Force need Rafale at all?

With the defence cuts, the outrageously visible and comprehensively debated Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) deal for 126 modern aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF) is all set to be delayed. Through a complex, comprehensive and conclusive ... [Published Frontier India Strategic and Defence - News, An ... - Jan 09 2013]

Entities: Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft, Indian Air Force, Dassault Rafale, Sukhoi Su-30

Quotes

"Unlike its newly-acquired partners, we provide the latest cutting-edge technology to India and don't share it with others" Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin said at an IAF function here on frontline fighter aircraft MiG-21

'Russia provides latest military tech exclusively to India' [Published Economic Times - Apr 20 2013]

...while older MiG-21 variants, MiG-23s and MiG-25s have been phased out, IAF still has almost 200 MiG-21 fighters, over 100 MiG-27s and 60 MiG-29s. "Two MiG-21 squadrons were `number-plated' last year. More were to follow this year but we have put the process on hold to retain our combat readiness," said a senior officer."

50 years on, MiG-21 continues to showcase combat flying [Published Economic Times - Apr 20 2013]

"We got rid of the old technology which was a key step. The induction of Su-30s also helped" he said

Defence minister praises IAF as aircraft crashes fall to record low [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 17 2013]

"The inexperience of pilots is not one of the major reasons for aircraft accidents in the IAF" Antony said to questions on media reports in this regard

Antony contradicts air force chief on plane crashes [Published Topnews.in - Dec 12 2011]

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