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The gun-camera sequences featuring Syrian MiG-21s shot down by Israeli Mirage IIIs
Al-Masry’s jet was then hit by 30mm cannon fire from one of the Mirages and exploded, killing the pilot. It was the first MiG-21...
How B-52 Tail Gunners downed two North Vietnamese MiG-21s and made the Strategic Bomber a MiG Killer
During Operation Linebacker II, two B-52D tail gunners belonging to the 307th Strategic Bomb Wing from U-Tapao RTAFB, Thailand, continued the long tradition of...
North Vietnamese MiG-21s tasked with attacking USAF EB-66 electronic warfare aircraft
The VPAF’s determination to eliminate the highly disruptive effects of EB-66 jamming increased their efforts at interception. Air Defence Command gave the MiG-21 units...
The kill scored by Commander Emory Brown against a North Vietnamese MiG-21
A ghost in the archive: Solving a 54-year-old air combat mystery
A 54-Year-Old Mystery: Potentially Solved
It is not often that an aviation mystery survives half...
VF-111 Sundowners became the first fighter unit to claim MiG kills with two different types of aircraft
This victory was claimed three-and-a-heft years after ‘Sundowner’ Lt. Tony Nargi had bagged a MiG-21 in an F-8C on Sep. 19, 1968
On the afternoon...