The 25 aircraft will be refurbished and then will be used to extend the offer of Draken ... the company has bought MiG-21 Bis and MiG-21UM trainer versions of the Fishbeds that once served in the ...

IAF requisitioned NAL to extend MiG-21 Bis life from 2,400 hours to 4,000 hours - an additional 1,600 hours. The aircraft, however, experienced cracks and break-up after around 1,000 hours of flying.

In a multi-million crore project, the Air Force is currently upgrading 125 MiG-21 BIS aircraft. The first two aircraft were upgraded in Russia and have been test flown faultlessly, ...

When not strapped in a MiG-21 cockpit, Sharma -- call-sign Cobra1 ... The air force progressively inducted 874 MiG-21s. The MiG-21 Bis was upgraded to MiG-21 Bison in India in 2000.

How the Soviets Built the Greatest Fighter of Its Age. At the time of the MiG-21’s introduction, the so-called “Fishbed” warplane was the first Soviet aircraft to break the Mach 2 barrier ...