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, ...

A MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Wednesday crashed at Patta Jatian village in Jawali area of Kangra district, killing the pilot. The aircraft, which was on a routine sortie ...

SRINAGAR: A MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the IAF on a routine training sortie today crashed in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district in Kashmir, killing the young pilot. "One MiG-21 (Bis) aircraft of ...

Squadron Leader Meet Kumar, who was flying the Russian origin MIG 21 Bis aircraft, died in the accident, he said, adding a Court of Inquiry (COI) has been ordered into it.

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.

The IAF has ordered upgradation of a total of 125 MiG-21 BIS fighters with Russian and Israeli help. While ten upgraded aircraft have already been inducted into the IAF, ...