Product Description
The MiG-21 was one of a long list of Mikoyan-Gurevich products to be integrated into the armed forces of the Soviet
Union, the Warsaw Pact, and allied client states. Its predecessors included such notable types as the MiG-15, MiG-17 and
the supersonic MiG-19. The roots of this project reach back to the first half of the fifties. In 1954, the Ye-1 project came
to an end, and was quickly picked up by the Ye-2. Both had a swept wing. The first machine to feature the delta wing was
the Ye-4, which first took to the air on June 16th, 1955. It was also demonstrated a year later at the Moscow airfield Tushino.
The first of the new line to enter production was the MiG-21F, which together with the MiG-21P and F-13 represented the
first generation of the MiG-21, and was in production through the end of the fifties and the beginning of the sixties.
Subsequent versions included the PF, FL, PFM, R, etc, the production of which peaked at the end of the sixties. The third
generation started production in 1968, which included such versions as M, SM, MF, SMT, bis among others.
Simultaneously, two-seat training versions were also produced designated MiG-21U, UM and US. Production of the MiG-
21 ended in 1985, and was put into service with some fifty nations. Over the course of the cold war, the opponents of the
MiG-21 included the likes of the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter and the Dassault Mirage III. NATO assigned it the reporting
name ‘Fishbed’. It became the most produced supersonic fighter in terms of quantity. The new machines came off Soviet
production lines in Moscow, Gorky and Tbilisi. The MiG-21F-13 was also built under license in Czechoslovakia and the
MiG-21FL, M and bis in India by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. The Soviet Union produced 10, 645 examples of all versions,
194 were built in Czechoslovakia and 657 in India. Outside of the Soviet Union, the type flew with a long list of nations on all
continents with the exception of Australia. The MiG-21 participated in combat in Vietnam, the Indo-Pakistan wars, the
Cuban participation in Angola and in the Arab world’s attempt to eliminate Israel. Thanks to the high volume of use, the
highest number of aces produced on the type was in Vietnam. The top of the ladder is occupied by Nguyen Van Coc with
nine kills. The type serving as a fighter-bomber served with the Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact into the
eighties, when it began to be displaced by the MiG-29 Fulcrum. This kit allows you to build foremost a model of the MiG-
21MT or SMT. In factory documentation, the types are identified as Izdelye 50 for SMT and Izdelye 96B for MT. They were
powered by the Tumansky R-13F-300 with afterburning and carried the Saphir-21/RP-22SM radar. The armament was
composed of the GS-23-2L 23mm cannon with 200 rounds. The underwing pylons could carry a combination of FAB
bombs up to 500kg in size, UB-16-57 or UB-32A rocket pods, and R-3S, R-3R or S-24 missiles. NATO assigned the MiG-
21MT / SMT the codename ‘Fishbed K’.
Please note that we accept no return or exchange for this item.
Item Size/Weight : 26.2 x 16.5 x 3.7 cm / 152g
Product Specifications
- Item code
- EDU4426
- JAN code
- 8591437044269
Purchase Information
This item is limited to 3 per household.