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Mikoyan-Gurevich
MiG-21F Fishbed
Syrian AF
The MiG-21F is a short-range, clear-air interceptor.
On 16 August 1966, an Iraqi pilot defected with a MiG-21F. It was given
to the U.S. for study. The MiG-21 was the main U.S. adversary during the
Vietnam War, and U.S. aircraft downed 85 in air-to-air combat.
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The U.S. returned this MiG-21 in 1982, but it was not the original one.
Iraq, Egypt, and Syria used the MiG-21, and they were used in the Six-Day
War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973). The IAF claimed 245 air-to-air
MiG-21 kills between 1967 and 1973. |
