Why the last combat-worthy MiG-21s likely disappeared in 2025, with only on-paper rusting hulks in service in 2026.

Jack Buckby, a defense researcher and military analyst, provides a critical evaluation of Russia’s ambitious PAK-DP program, ...

The MiG-21 served the Indian Air Force for 62 years. In September 2025, it was officially retired.

August 13, 2025: Next month India will retire the last of its Russian-designed MiG-21 fighters. India is the last major country to abandon MiG-21s. This aircraft entered service in 1959. In 1986 ...

The most widely flown Russian aircraft is not actually any single MiG fighter jet The Mi-8/17 series was originally introduced in the 1960s but its newer variants came about in the 1980s, and these ...

Russian Aerospace Forces publicized for the first time the MiG-31 armed with the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic hypersonic ...

Polish MiG-29 fighters intercepted and escorted a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea without a ...

An upgraded Serbian MiG-29 was recently photographed with Chinese CM-400 supersonic standoff missiles. Images appeared on Mar. 10, 2026, on social media showing a Serbian Air Force and Air Defense ...

MOSCOW, October 9. /TASS/. A MiG-31 aircraft crashed in the Lipetsk Region, the crew ejected and the pilots’ lives are not in danger, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. "Today at approximately ...

The Polish Air Force intercepted a Russian aircraft that was flying over the Baltic Sea, the nation's military confirmed.