Présentation détaillée de ce chasseur d'avion léger soviétique qui est non seulement le jet le plus fabriqué de toute l'histoire de l'aviation mais aussi l'aéronef le plus produit depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, tous types et nations confondus. ©Electre 2024
The Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-21 « Fishbed »
The MIG-21 originated with an official request from the Soviet authorities in 1954 for a light, high-performance (Mach 2 at 20 000 m) frontline fighter to protect military and production installations from potential raids by American bombers.
Built for almost half a century in twenty or so different versions, in four successive generations, the « Fishbed » (its NATO codename) was not only the jet which was built in the largest numbers in the whole of aviation history, but also the aircraft which was built in greatest numbers since the end of the Second World War, all types and all countries included.
Used by fifty or so air forces on four of the five continents, the MiG-21 took part in most of the major conflicts during the four last decades, from the Six-Day War in 1967 to the Balkans in 1999.
At the present time more than a thousand examples of this fighter, of which a large number were built in China (Shenyang F-7 and J-7) are still in service, with their career continuing thanks to modernisation programmes for the surviving aircraft which have enabled them to pass cheerfully into the 21st Century.
Paru le : 31/12/2009
Thématique : Aviation
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Gérard Paloque
Éditeur(s) :
Histoire et collections
Collection(s) : Planes and pilots
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-35250-147-3
EAN13 : 9782352501473
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 99
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 20.0 cm
Épaisseur: 0.6 cm
Poids: 415 g
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