Mig-21 facts that might surprise you

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First flown in 1955, the MiG-21 is the most produced supersonic airplane in the world. It is still in service in many countries. This video gives an introduction to this legendary fighter.
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@FlywithMagnar 2 года назад

As many have pointed out, I have used a wrong translation. The U in Mig-21U doesn't stand for oбучение (training), but учебный (trainer).

@prithwirajroy3943 2 года назад

Prithwi Raj R OY the

@blackoutvukovar4922 2 года назад

Croatia win a war in 1995. whit Mig 21

@user-cy4rd2ty8l 2 года назад

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@quest4adventure495 2 года назад

All in all it is a fantastic presentation.

@pictograph 2 года назад

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@aroopghosh1381 2 года назад

I started my career flying the MiG 21 in 1985 .Have many beautiful memories. Beautiful aircraft

@sherwinsalvatori6997 2 года назад

You lived a life many dream off.

@smarakmohanta1445 2 года назад

Salute to you sir

@aroopghosh1381 2 года назад

@@smarakmohanta1445 Thank you sir 👍

@brothergunns5055 2 года назад

Indian airforce?? Congratulations to the IAF on shooting down an F-16 with a Bison.

@brothergunns5055 2 года назад

@CREEP MATT GAETZ if you ever feel useless, just imagine how the pilot of falcon would feel. That F-16 was like a cool kid who got clipped by the oldest grandpa on the hood.

@2HellWUtube 2 года назад

I have a MIG-21 BIS parked 50 meters from my house in Zagreb, Croatia. I see it every day, and the view never gets old.

@jadedragonfilms8784 Год назад

I found it! That’s so cool

@MainMite06 Год назад

was it painted like this? 6:17

@Dejan-gz6vz Год назад

Yes, still exist white/red and next year they will be retaired.

@KrGsMrNKusinagi0 4 месяца назад

Mig 15 here down the street in texas :) defector plane

@ivantim781 4 месяца назад

Croatian MiG-21's are the best ngl

@srelma 2 года назад

When I was a kid there was an airbase with MiG-21s nearby. Them breaking the sound barrier above our house was a really cool thing for a small kid. And the speed of that dot moving across the sky, was amazing too.

@valsakumar3673 2 года назад

Then, you may be in Pune around No 2Wing,Viman Nagar or Visrant Wadi? I lived in Khese Park,Lohagaon.

@srelma 2 года назад

@@valsakumar3673 no. I don't even know which country you're talking about.

@DagaSaga-- 2 года назад

They are still active in Croatian Air Force and i'm livin near the airbase. That thunder sound i wouldn't change for anything ❤️

@H-cranky 2 года назад

@@srelma he was talking about India

@srelma 2 года назад

@@H-cranky I found it strange that he assumed straight away that I was talking about India when I made no indication of that. Mig-21 is one of the most widely used fighter plane in the world (or was, it is not used that widely any more)..

@samuellatta6774 2 года назад

Small correction, the mig-21 has two afterburner modes The emergency afterburner is only to be used in emergencies, and if you use it for more than 2 minutes you risk damaging the engine, and any use of this mode reduces the engine's lifespan by about 20 hours But the normal afterburner is unlimited, and doesn't burn fuel nearly as quickly

@hailandfire1822 2 года назад

I see your two, and raise you three afterburner modes.

@henri6311 2 года назад

@@hailandfire1822 Four, take it or leave it

@Fri13. Год назад

At least Bis has limited afterburner. You can keep it on for little over 2 minutes and then your feeder tank (no:3) is empty and your engine is dead. You need to pull throttle back to mil power after 2 min and wait a moment to feeder refill, before you can push afterburner back on. This was common problem in air shows as you need to time the refill between maneuvers. For interception it wasn't problem, as in 2 min after releasing wheel brakes you were at 10 km altitude at Mach 1.2. then you started climb and in three minutes you were at 20 km at Mach 2.05, and now your 500 liter warning light lits up and you need to return. You can glide down at rate of 5:1 when engine idle by keeping 500 km/h indicated air speed.. So you get 5 km ground distance for every 1 km altitude. Transferring you from 20 km altitude to about 90 km distance, leaving you 2 km altitude to get airfield. After deploying landing gear, glide ratio change to 3.8:1 so it gave you with idle engine 7.6 km glide distance to land the plane. At that moment you had about 300 liters fuel left that was enough for two patterns and landing touches around the airfield if required. The Fishbed is amazing for what it was designed, you take off from roadbase at specific time calculated for a second, intercept a high flying target, shoot the missiles and return to base. Multiple fighters doing that, in multiple waves and you get targets destroyed. No need for fancy long range radars, enough that you find target at 10-15 km distance and can engage them inside 15 km. As GCI is your guidance through whole intercept.

@edwinbz9889 Год назад

@@henri6311 I'll go all in with my FIVE 5 afterburners.

@WildBillCox13 Год назад

@@Fri13. Thanks for contributing to the forum, and my knowledge base.

@lovelychahal3684 Год назад

I grew up watching these planes here in India, Punjab, during 90's, Air force station of Adampur is 7-8 km from my Village, now Mig-29 replaced Mig-21.

@elarr8733 2 года назад

I think I fell in love with these because of how identifiable they were in early combat flight sims. You passed one and you knew that wasn't a friendly that just went by.

@endgovernmentextremism 2 года назад

Nice to see someone else who thinks this way. I always think of Falcon when I see one. When I see a 23 I think of Comanche.

@grahamthebaronhesketh. 2 года назад

@@endgovernmentextremism I fly loads in VR these days it is awesome.

@darthvader5558 2 года назад

Fun fact- An Indian IAF Mig21 biston shot down a Pakistani PAF F16 block 15 variant Which for me is quite impressive

@thomasvelazquez9789 2 года назад

Still trying to live of that story huh guess what ITS NOT AN F 16 just ask an Israeli pilot

@babayada2015 Месяц назад

@@thomasvelazquez9789 Why Israeli?

@thomasvelazquez9789 Месяц назад

@babayada2015 Just ask an Isreali pilot if the mig 21 is the same as having an f 16 . They will take the f 16 100% of the time. A mig 21 is not the same as a f 16, not even close. cmon, you must know that

@babayada2015 Месяц назад

@@thomasvelazquez9789 Nobody ever claimed Mig 21 was better than F 16, The proof was given in the form of multiple overlapping radars showing it being shot down. Ofcourse people ask India for the wreckage of something that was brought down in enemy territory and treat it as "lack of evidence"

@babayada2015 Месяц назад

@@thomasvelazquez9789 And since you mentioned F 16, I'm sure you understand how much the block versions affect the performance. Look up the block of F 16 in Pakistan

@sdavrider 2 года назад

I saw a MIG-21 at a museum last month. The 3 things that struck me were it's short height above the ground, it's tiny wing, and it's Mach 2 speed.

@gregtaylor6146 2 года назад

It flew at Mach 2 ...... in the museum????

@External2737 2 года назад

It was a pilot strapped to an engine. Both the MIG-21 and Starfighter met that definition. I know ex Starfighter pilots, not a dogfighting plane.

@mungo7136 2 года назад

@Anon Ymous 😁 Exactly. My absolutely first idea when I read that comment. Starfighter. They had to do some dwarfs selection to get the pilots for the thing. I had a chance to sit into cockpit of the Bf-109 that was described as cramped compared i.e. to Spitfire - no problem. F-104? No chance. I'd need to push my knees through the instrument panel and i was at least half-head above canopy frame.

@KernowekTim 4 месяца назад

It passed you inside a museum at M2?? Superb low-level piloting!

@Krasnoye158 2 года назад

For those who don’t know, the red circle and rectangle emblem with a star in the middle such as one in 2:53 and 4:12 belongs to the Vietnamese air force.

@JamesSmith-sj6ru 2 года назад

²,

@JamesSmith-sj6ru 2 года назад

@norizammastor9072 2 года назад

Noted from netizen

@amnguyen1659 2 года назад

North Vietnamese air force.

@martinjanik9221 2 года назад

Thank you for this video. MIG-21 is real icon and unforgettable legend on the sky. She is beauty even after decades ❤️👍👏

@cvravishankar 2 года назад

I had the opportunity and privilege to design a successful FDR system upgrade for this fantastic machine. All the pilots I met used to say, they did not want to fly any other machine!

@Pau_Pau9 2 года назад

I was real surprised how beautiful this jet was in real life, up close.

@DagaSaga-- 2 года назад

Simple, powerful and effective... I had the honor to sit in his cockpit 🙂

@jeremyr7147 Год назад

The Russians have always built beautiful airframes. Especially like the su 34 & 57, amazingly beautiful planes. .

@mvrr5728 2 года назад

Два года я ремонтировал эти машины,помню каждую заклепку,все 11антенн,ВВС ГСВГ Альтес Лагер ГДР.

@bjekve 2 года назад

This was both interresting and educational. Looking forward to part II.

@taketimeout2share 2 года назад

And amusing too. I really like his style. Just like the cop in The Transporter film his humour has just enough "flavour" . Tea and medals. Haha.

@lucianpop3667 2 года назад

At 5.58 minutes, in the picture is a Mig21 LanceR C, the air-to-air combat variant. At 6.30 minutes, there is a Mig21 LanceR B, the training variant, with double control. The variant mentioned in minute 5.58 - Mig21 LanceR A (and does not appear in the picture), of air-ground combat, is painted in the same colors as variant B (with double control). All three variants of Mig 21 LanceR were modernized in 1990-1995 by the companies Elbit from Israel and Aerostar Bacău from Romania.

@MrQ454 2 года назад

He pointed that Romanian LanceR-s (A) are only for air-ground attack which is wrong! Mig21 LanceR C is the air-to-air combat variant, in fact that is the only variant simple command which fly now.

@maxhealth.3479 2 года назад

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@OfficialUSKRprogram 2 года назад

I would say the cockpit IS organized, it's not like you got fuzes and pumps all over the cockpit.. All the fuzes are on the rear right, all the systems are on the front right, all the external systems (nose cone, blown flaps) and Environmental Control Systems (cockpit air) are on the left.. Instruments are all in the front and are easy to read. Glass cockpits take just as long to get used to than a series of steam gauges. That, and steam gauges give you more information, separately, quicker, and more accurately than a computer screen can. It's difficult to pick out specific numbers and information quickly on a computer screen, near impossible in high stress scenarios, whereas with gauges, you know where to look for speed, it's a big needle. Altitude is one long needle and one short stubby needle. Heading is one big compass. Artificial horizon is one big gauge with lines in the middle. Everything is where you expect it to be, no need to squint at the Heads Up Display like on a F-16 or F/A-18. Mig-21 is good aircraft, reliable aircraft, like AK-47. Bury AK-47 into the ground, dig it back up, still works. Bury Mig-21 into the ground, dig it back up, still works.

@norizammastor9072 2 года назад

There it goes Magnar.!! No downgrade the 21. Cheers

@badbrig 2 года назад

LOL!! Hear hear!!

@tuunaes 2 года назад

If you need to look down during battle, that is automatic handicap if opposition has HUD! (best sustained turn rates, tightest turns etc all need their own speed) And especially in BFM/"dogfight" Mig-21 would have problems... Starting from more limited pilot visibility. Also while physical switches are good for some things, that Soviet steampunk cockpit demanded lots of learning and wasn't pilot friendly. One switch in wrong place could have literally burnt the engine at start up: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RaPQYCvVN6k.html

@paristo 2 года назад

@@tuunaes You don't need to look down to instruments in dogfight. You feel in MiG very well all the behaviors of the plane in dogfight. You don't even look at the G or AoA instrument as you feel it so well that where you are going. The visibility is limited to rear, that is a hard fact that can't be denied. But there is a another hard fact, that is denied often, that when you are pulling a high G (5+) then you are not capable move your head and upper torso anyways at all so freely. At 6 G maneuver your head weights just about 30-33 kg. Your upper torso is about 25% of your body weight, so by average about 20 kg on 80 kg male and that turns in 6 G maneuver to weight about 120 kg. Especially in the games when cameras move freely, people get this illusion that looking around is simple as that until pilot reaches some mystical number like "9G" or something. But every maneuver needs to be prepared and anticipated so that you know when to move head and torso based the phases of the flight. The Soviets didn't see the cockpit visibility such a weakness as MiG-21 was primarily a interceptor and front-line fighter as second, where you anyways either acquire a position in the first merge, or you are extending away. And you have wingmen to check your six, as well you need anyways to perform various turns to check your six as someone can be behind you and lower than you and you don't see them, even if you sit in a F-16. The USA has gone to similar thing, look at the F-22 and F-35 canopies, the rear visibility isn't so great as in F-16, because it is not really required. The MiG-21 limited design for canopy is it larger front canopy frame, side view and to up is excellent (even when there is the mirror periscope above your head). And later on in the modernization the more expensive one piece front canopy was made, as in MiG-21Bison or MiG-21-93. So there was no more the armored glass with oval shaped piece limiting frontal view. The cockpit gauges doesn't require much learning at all. If you know the instruments purpose, then they are easy to interpret and check. And you are anyways mainly looking just four instruments, AHI, HSI, Speed and Altitude. And all are grouped to the left side, large ones: Example www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/upload/iblock/103/Main.jpg The start-up procedure was important to learn, as it was not just MiG-21 (or Soviets) that burned engine if wrongly started. The same thing was on many western fighters back in the day. But MiG-21 speciality was that you got it started under 30 seconds at best and you were moving, and you completed rest of the start-up process while taxiing to runway, with extra 10-15 seconds for that. And many systems you could even start in the air when needed. The simple gunsight is handicap for the pure-numbers maneuver, but you can do that as well with the gauges and not need HUD for that. As the best turn rate, turn radius etc are as well highly dependent from the altitude and temperature. Those same information is shown on the HUD as it is shown on the gauges. You have altitude and speed right there. It is little different but when you chase someone, you don't take your eyes off him even for reading the HUD. And when you pull high G, you concentrate for the center part of cockpit and just hope that your maneuver was well timed and enemy will be where you estimated it to be as you can't look at it while your view is black and white, your surrounding vision can be blinking, it is blurred and you need to focus for breathing to stay awake and concentrate to get yourself through the plan. Where the HUD really shines is landing, you get all the information and no need to perform instrument approach similar way. But as HUD is used for showing ILS same way as a HSI does it with gauge, you don't need to even look outside to perform landings. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v6Hs4ll93Ms.html Don't get me wrong, I am for the modern instruments and systems, but MiG-21 was not bad at all as it is told to be. The real clutter in the MiG-21 is from everything else than the switches, buttons, knobs and instruments. They are from the switch shields, the turnable lights, the screw heads and metal sheet edges, as well few metal objects that are just extruding from few places. And that "unpolished" look is what makes MiG-21 cockpit look "unergonomic" as average person eye catches all those small things and it feels so cluttered etc. But in short time using it it becomes very clear and simple.

@valsakumar3673 2 года назад

You forgot to mention the beauty of cockpit at night when panel lights are switched on. 😀😀 🇮🇳 Ex Sgt V Kumar IAF.

@AndrewTubbiolo 2 года назад

Watching a MiG-21 land reminds me of my first landing in a tail dragger glider. I came in too fast and while floating off the extra energy, the wheel touched ground and stuck. It was a dirt/gravel field with ruts. I could feel the glider was ready to fly again and enter a PIO if I pulled back on the stick. And the ruts in the runway had a tendency to knock the ground roll in this direction and that. I was dancing like crazy on the rudders with short but sharp inputs. I eventually wound up scratching the chin of the glider in the dirt before I was able to put the tail down and start using the brakes. Whenever I watch a MiG-21 come in at high speed I can see the plane operating just above flying speed in the ground effect, and I'm mentally putting in short control inputs to keep it going strait, on center, and not pop the aircraft up into a PIO.

@brianlaroche8856 2 года назад

Is beeing used today. Is like my supped up pontiac gto

@norizammastor9072 2 года назад

Wow.. so much technicalities to digest.. thx for sharing.. cheers

@bkreed27 2 года назад

Cool story Bro! 👍

@AKAtheA 2 года назад

now imagine all this happening at 340+km/h (212+mph) and the empty plane is pretty much 5 tons. Also, once you're touching down, you can't see jack shit because of the nose ;-) This thing requires balls to fly, it does not forgive mistakes.

@SimonEkendahl 2 года назад

What does PIO stand for?

@macklu7657 2 года назад

When I was 7, I drew a picture of myself in what obviously was a MiG-21 and wrote "I want to be a pilot". Not that I managed to become one, but I still remember the sound of the engine! They were impressive!

@valsakumar3673 2 года назад

God helps those who help themselves 🇮🇳 🙏

@eyesofisabelofficial 2 года назад

I learnt so much about it from just this one video, and I have lots of aviation books and magazines !

@the_sheet 2 года назад

while working at a regional airline in Canada, I flew with a Romanian Air Force pilot that flew the mig-21. He reminisced about the Soviet Era. "At least people had food to eat". He kept pointing out different aircraft while we were flying through US airspace, I hardly saw any of them. What great eyesight he had. I believe he said, the MIG-21 was prone to high-speed stall and/or the AOA was crude... I forget the rest of the conversation, but he had an interesting perspective.

@edibadea1617 2 года назад

we are still flying with Mig-21 at least until 2024-2025

@mikemontgomery2654 2 года назад

Those Romanians put on a good display with their Migs. My first 21 display at an airshow was courtesy of them and, could very well have been the last.

@cruxader27 2 года назад

Mig-21 is not a plane. It's a jet engine with wings

@leeengelsman1855 2 года назад

F104 /105 was like that also.

@DagaSaga-- 2 года назад

Wrong, its a rocket with wings which carry the rockets 😁😁

@madkills10 2 года назад

wait till you see an F-104!

@WilmerCook Год назад

Jet's just need wings to maneuver, and hold rockets.

@athiftsabit1208 2 года назад

More historic contents like this please, the way you present a piece of history is amazing

@michaelcuff5780 2 года назад

I always thought that the very early Migs were the most beautiful planes ever!

@taketimeout2share 2 года назад

Subbed, Magnar. You are the right man for the job of informing us about what we all love most . Aircraft.

@pyroarchy 2 года назад

One of my most favorite soviet era aircrafts ever! Loved flying this in DCS, such a beautiful thing!

@dykatran 2 года назад

The front cone of MiG-21 is so iconic but this is the first time that I know it can move forward and backward according to the jet's speed.

@zsus1 2 года назад

but he told completely wrong.... at high speed cone is fully retracted--low speed fully extended..

@musharrafhanif 2 года назад

@@zsus1 I think you might be mistaken.... if by retracted, you mean as far back as possible then no.... that setting is for the slow speed regime. The idea is that you use a narrower intake at higher speeds so that the high pressure high speed air has a chance to slow to subsonic speed before it gets to the engine compressor stages as they cannot work properly with supersonic air (This was also true on the SR71 and all other aircraft that used variable geometry air intakes)

@zsus1 2 года назад

@@musharrafhanif confirmed from Russian Publication...at high speed cone retracted .and low speed cone extended..and you are right .but design of intake is such that if cone is extended it will reduce the open area for air flow and vice versa.

@valsakumar3673 2 года назад

There are also two additional air intakes on both sides.

@valsakumar3673 2 года назад

@@zsus1 Wrong.It is mandatory to ensure that the cone is fully retracted during all Preflight(PFS) Turnaround (TRS),and Last Flight servicing(LFS). At ground level air dencity and Oxygen is more.At heigh altitudes the cone is extended to get more O2, thus flame out of the engine is avoided.There is a provision to re-light the engine with Oxygen & O2 bottles are kept in starboard wheel- bay.Young pilots sometimes forgets to re-light and accidents happen. This is one of the Pilots Errors. The Cone also works as radar aerial. R35 is the engine used in Mig21 Bis, Speed 2Mac.

@mesutmirsad9536 2 года назад

That was an interesting video, thanks Magnar. The only mistake I heard is at 6:12 minute, Mig-21U doesnt stand for Обучение (Obuchenie-education ) but учебно-тренировочный (Uchebno-trenirovochniy) which means training.

@FlywithMagnar 2 года назад

Thanks for the info! I asked a Russian friend about this, and still got it wrong...

@stanislavt6376 2 года назад

УБ- Учебно бојеви!!

@7777777fresh 2 года назад

Its a learning fighting jet, you can use in a battles

@bonjourtoi3894 7 месяцев назад

Retournes et va retrouver Poutine si tu aimes tant ton sang rouge. Tu n'as pas affaire ici.

@brothergunns5055 2 года назад

Fun Fact : An IAF MiG-21 Bison had shot down a F-16B in 2019. They were such Chads that they even published radar images. It proves that how lethal that interceptor could be with highly upgraded radars and avionics.

@brothergunns5055 2 года назад

@Anon Ymous well, it happened wvr. Maybe that's why it stood a chance.

@Nghilifa 2 года назад

@Anon Ymous Better lucky than good!

@FlywithMagnar 2 года назад

Gentlemen, please keep the discussion at a civilized level.

@Brutflame 2 года назад

Absolute none sense. All four missiles were found attached to their warheads when the Mig 21 plane came down. His radar were jammed and didn't match the Pakistani technology. So the Indian media tell you an Mig 21 brought down an F16 with bullets at bvr range then. That air plane and its wreckage, missiles attached to their war heads is still at display with the Pakistan Air Force inspected by the militaries of the US Russia China the UK, KOREA, THE UAE, SAUDI ARABIA and many others plus personnel of the Aviation week. No contest there. The pilot of that Mig 21 plane was blind, there was total jamming, an Indian female controller begged him to turn back he couldn't hear her. The pilot was handed back after spending couple of days in Pakistan. During one interview the Indian Air Force chief in a classic show of a man lying ducked his eyes away from the camera and attributed the kill to the disastrous showing by a large air force's pilot abhinondun, the Pakistanis call him 'abhi-none-done". The US count of Pakistani F16s at PAF is a bases confirmed the Indian lie. Nothing can be more ridiculous than this Indian bs, their propaganda for beibv some unassailable air force worked against them. They conveniently thought they wud get away with an earlier bombing of Pakistani forest which they said killed 350 terrorist but every sat foto, including the ones published by the Australians showed where the bombs had fallen. They had dropped their bombs in utter haste when the PAF planes had neared for bvr. You certainly haven't read the Pakistan Air Force's combat history to which Gen Chuck Horner, Commander US Air Force 1991 said 'one of the best most combat ready air forces of the world. Pakistanis engaged in combat Israeli air force flying lesser capable Mig 21s during a 1974 encounter. The Israelis had the Mig 21 in their possession from 1966 whereas the Pakistanis had fought the mug621 in its war with India on one occasion shooting it down with a Saber F86, a sub sonic plane. The fact is on Feb 27 2019 the Pakistan Air Force attacked Indian military installations, did good damage and shot down an Su30mki (call sigh Avenger) right at the start of the battle when they were vectored towards Pakistani strike package. The remaining Su30mki called bingo and left despite nearly 2 hour fuel in its tanks. The Mirages of the Indian Air Force called radar bust and exited the area, despite being picked by Pakistanis radars for having serviceable radars thru out the battle hiding behind each other's tails. The Pakistanis could have shot down 6 more indian planes that day, why waste missiles on sitting ducks. And when an air force is willing to oblige the enemy by shooting their own helicopters you just can wait and watch the show. Finally, few days later after the Su30mki was shot down, Indian newspaper ran a story of two Su30mki pilot being killed in a road accident. From an Indian movie and propaganda they beat both Pakistan and China, from scientific standpoint, only in India, Indian Air Force flying coffin took down an F16 from a much superior military by their farts.

@brothergunns5055 2 года назад

@@Brutflame lmao. The delusion of Pakistanis baffles me. You're talking about the same forces that refused to take back the dead bodies of their own soldiers who were KIA during the Kargil war. Absolutely pathetic. The fact that you believe everything that Pakistan's forces says explains why Pakistan's literacy rate is amongst the lowest in the world. From a technological point of view, Pakistan is way behind of India. And you must have a two celled brain to believe that a missile can be recovered intact from a crash. If those missiles were really Indian, why did Pakistan hide the serial numbers of the missile?? Btw good luck finding your "Doosra Banda". Your notion that jamming a radar shuts it down is self explanatory that you know absolutely nothing about military aviation.

@rapideplays6744 2 года назад

I love expanding my knowledge of the aircraft i like, and this was just what I needed. Just spent part of Christmas Eve researching why it had a shock cone 😂

@pavelgalitsyn3417 Год назад

Huge like for saying "Форсированный" with no mistakes or misspellings! What a quality even in details)

@templeviewgate 2 года назад

Mightier MIG in its prime time literally had shaken up almost all countries ..it was more like facing a maniac monster in air. Fast enough that handling costed many lives ..but I read that most pilots love to fly this badass fighter.

@mehrdadtube1 2 года назад

one IRIAF pilot clearly confessed that flying a F-7 is much more enjoyable than a tomcat.

@MtnManLucas 2 года назад

An iconic fighter aircraft. A world-class fighter in its era.

@hankrol7830 2 года назад

As a modeler. I love the MF variant. Saw on air shows. Beautiful

@hailandfire1822 2 года назад

Whoa whoa, let's keep these comments family friendly

@Archer89201 2 года назад

Amazing thing is I have been seeing them fly since I was a child, now I'm 33years old and our airforce still flies them

@bassmith448bassist5 2 года назад

How have I not seen this channel before??????? You do brilliant work man. Liked and subbed immediately!!!! I will be coming back for more very soon!!! Thank you for the fantastic content!!!!!!

@b2tall239 2 года назад

Late-model 21s are the best looking jet fighters, IMO. And I'm a red-blooded American. Nice video. Thanks.

@b2tall239 2 года назад

@Anon Ymous Well, I'm an American (born and raised) and I said it, so obviously you're wrong. Get over it. Get over yourself too.

@monosodiumglutamate3132 2 года назад

I'm also an American and I can say that Soviet made aircrafts were bad ass looking and more beautiful than ours.in terms of tanks,p t-72 is far more beautiful to watch than the m-60 of ours, t-80ud is very beautiful than the m1 Abram.

@nikolajovanovski6579 2 года назад

@Anon Ymous and ure very sad and pathethic. Damn. No wonder the world has gone to shit. Ignorant people are everywhere

@juusolatva 3 месяца назад

Finland also used the Saab J 35 Draken at the same time as the MiG-21 and from what I understand there was a bit of rivalry between the pilots of the faster MiG-21 and the more maneuverable Draken. according to a former pilot the earlier F-13 variant was more enjoyable to fly than the later MiG 21bis, although obviously the later variant had other advantages.

@mlccrl 2 года назад

This plane is sadly infamous in Italy because of the Ustica crash. A DC-9 plane lost a wing when a MIG-21 created a turbolence overtaking it very close. The DC-9 crashed in the sea and all the passengers died. It was 1980. At that time it was customary for Lybian MIG to overfly Italy back an forth when going to USSR for mechanical maintenance. In order to avoid NATO radars they used to follow by close italian civil planes. Sometimes they were intercepted by italian f-104 or NATO fighters but most times the trick worked.

@mickeystanic4750 Год назад

Everybody in Italy turns an angry face at the sight of mig-21 to this day.

@rrocketman 2 года назад

Classic and legendary aircraft, thanks for this👏🏻

@alenmihelcic8267 2 года назад

Several times you show Croatian mig 21. Flaying today with respect

@camiemengineer 2 года назад

Congratulations to you AND Jackal_21 & Others .. Beautiful and great video! Thank you.

@Homoprimatesapiens 2 года назад

Very good presentation. Now i know a bit more about this famous Mig. Would like to see something similar on the Mig 23 and 27. As well as historical info on how they had fare in different wars.

@RedBravo65 2 года назад

Wonderful video. One of my favorite DCS World modules.

@PanzerDave 2 года назад

It's interesting to see that the U.S. labeled their Mig 21s the YF-110. The F-4 Phantom was originally designated the F-110. I suspect that this was not a coincidence.

@samuellatta6774 2 года назад

They labeled them that because they needed to disguise their origin. Next point is, YF-110 and F-110 have nothing in common, And next, the F-110 designation was unofficial. So what in the world do you suspect?

@MsTatli Год назад

@@samuellatta6774 point 1 ...u missed his point in ur point 1.

@VikingTeddy 4 месяца назад

Been in love with it since I was a kid in the 80s. Read about it religiously. Wouldn't have thought there was still things to learn, can't wait for more.

@christianscazzieri 2 года назад

Great video, VERY informative. Loved it, thanks!

@aleksandrhellgate7396 2 года назад

"У" mean "учебный" Trainer aircraft. "Обучение" meaning is an educating process.

@ivan200804 2 года назад

I concur. Uchebniy translates as trainer. Obuchenie is a verb, that means training, education, process of education or learning.

@gollarameshchandra1289 2 года назад

А ТЫ КТО?

@MontyCarlossal 2 года назад

"then the pilot returns to the base for tea and medals" - молодец

@Orgakoyd 2 года назад

I had to repeat that part many times to believe it!

@parvizdeamer 2 года назад

😂😂 best line

@majormadmax1 2 года назад

From Blackadder Goes Forth, specifically the episode in which the boys join the Royal Flying Corps and discover that the 'Twenty Minuters' are known as such as this is the amount of time they can expect to spend in the air before being shot down and killed. George: "Crikey, sir. I'm looking forward to today. Up diddly up, down diddly down, whoops, poop, twiddly dee - decent scrap with the fiendish Red Baron - bit of a jolly old crash landing behind enemy lines - capture, torture, escape, and then back home in time for tea and medals!"

@majormadmax1 2 года назад

@jktonse 2 года назад

My favourite fighter aircraft since I joined NCC airwing during college days....so sophisticated and fantastic design....I love this always 👍👍👍

@TravelsLoverHemantSharma 2 года назад

I Love This Plane too much and it was my dream when I wanted to become an Indian Airforce Pilot and wanted to Fly MiG-21. I Love it's Design, Sound and it's speed.....!! When it was flying over the Sky it was look like a Beautiful Bird is flying....!! But Sadly i didn't become Pilot but i am still crazy about the same. Thankyou for the Beautiful and Different Type of Video(s) you have shared.

@DannMarius 2 года назад

Hi Magnar, I really enjoyed your video, it is well documented and I actually learned something new out of it. However I would like to add that Romanian Air Force has three variants of LanceR: A is the ground attack version, B is the trainer version and C, the one that you had at the end of the video, is the air-to-air version. All the best

@FlywithMagnar 2 года назад

Thanks!

@mickberick8575 2 года назад

Magnificent afterburner shots!

@CIS101 2 месяца назад

First time on this channel. Excellent video, and content. Very well done !!!

@K1NGM4S1V Месяц назад

Awesome video. Thank you so very much

@atomotron 2 года назад

Actually, "U" in MIG-21U (МиГ-21У) stands for Russian letter "У" (which is pronounced same as U) - "учебный". It is close to "обучение", Google translate will display both of them, but the former is an adjective, and this is what they usually add to the main model name ("учебный", "высотный", "ночной" and so on) to indicate the purpose. The latter is a noun and it starts with "О", which does not match the letter "У".

@appa609 2 года назад

A combat airplane starts life as a sports car and ends life as a pickup truck. Things only ever get heavier and bigger over time, never lighter. Performance, visibility, and handling are always sacrificed for fuel, payload, and sensors.

@feliscorax 2 года назад

Except for the English Electric Lightning, which remained largely unchanged throughout its service life.

@sss-og1yl 2 года назад

Anyway F.6 or F.3 (I can't remember what) is heavier than F.1 And, remember, it wasn't fighter but interceptor. Our Su-9 (for example) also remained unchanged

@ivan1kot Год назад

Thank you for awesome video!

@rajeshsrivastava1972 Год назад

Had privilege to watch activity of this machine on radar console and lucky enough to view take of and landings from tower.

@Fa7733 2 года назад

Subscribed! You're one of those rare channels that explain a complex topic in a very simple way. Thank you for all the effort. I look forward to your future videos

@BLACK3737 2 года назад

I spent my entire 90's childhood living close to an airforce base in northern Poland. It was something which determined our life cycle. They were training all the time, days and nights. We spent a lot of time near the runway to wave the pilots who were lining up for take-off, greeting them when they landed. Mig-21 Bis is part of my DNA I guess. It's funny, because when in late 90s the base limited its activities (less flights and training for the pilots), ultimately striving to close it in its original shape I had a huge problem with falling asleep without the noise of jet engines roaring outside. Good memories, sad, that the base is not Fighter Aviation Regiment anymore, yet it serves as a military airfield, for the Naval Aviation unit and Coast Guard.

@saoha11 2 года назад

Let me guess, Hexengrund aka The Valley of Witches? ;)

@BLACK3737 2 года назад

@@saoha11 Yes

@MrRobertX70 Год назад

I’m always amazed that this sixty+ year old jet is still in service. While outclassed by most modern jets it can compete with them and is still capable winning in a fight.

@jkarra2334 7 месяцев назад

That shitbucket hasn't been a danger for western jets in last 40 years...(50 years) Only thing mig21 does is that it's somewhat fast(If not turning), but it's still just a museum piece😂 has been for decades...

@jpatt1000 6 месяцев назад

Still remember the first time I saw a MiG-21 fly! Back in the early 90's Combat Jets Flying Museum out of Houston Texas brought their fleet to EAA in Oshkosh. It consisted an A-4, T-33, F-86, MiG-15, Hawker Hunter, F-104 and the MiG-21! It was my first time seeing jet warbirds. Even though his favorite jet was the F-86, my Dad was most excited to see the MiG-15. (He couldn't believe his eyes when he spied its tail when we were walking through the warbirds!) He never thought he'd see one, let alone see one fly! My favorites were the 104 and MiG-21 as they were exciting in burner!

@andrzejpl9897 2 года назад

1955 just 10 years after ww2 . That is amazing !

@thomaswittek5337 2 года назад

Stole German technology-just like Kalashnikov ripped off the German Sturmgewehr 44 for the AK-47 Deutschland uber alles! Sold the last of our Mig-29s to Poland.

@VovaSidorOff 2 года назад

@@thomaswittek5337 AK is not a STG 44 system. Kalashnikov used american M1 Garand idea.

@ushikiii 2 года назад

@@VovaSidorOff thanks.

@thomasvelazquez9789 2 года назад

Not really

@coronavirus5050 2 года назад

The smaller size of the Mig 21 still makes it very effective

@808bigisland 2 года назад

Great story telling. Thanks!

@laurent3805 2 года назад

Very Nice ! Thanks for this huge amount of work on my favorite jet fighter … cheers from France

@craigywaigy4703 2 года назад

Great video! That Romanian pilot was AWESOME, and the aircraft equally so, and to perform as it did under their control!! Liked and subbed - :)

@ashleycollard8968 2 года назад

coulda retracted the undercarriage though...

@craigywaigy4703 2 года назад

@@ashleycollard8968 That's the point of the awesomeness of both, as the aerodynamic drag caused by the undercarriage would be massive and speaks to the skill of the pilot and the mechanical design of the MIG 21. :)

@ashleycollard8968 2 года назад

@@craigywaigy4703 oh... i thought an awesome pilot would know where the retracts were actuated :P

@adamdeste7376 2 года назад

This plane can be fitted with hypersonic missiles and modern avionics. It can still go head to head with 4th generation planes.

@airshark2764 2 года назад

its too small to fit a modern radar

@StoicaVladIoan 2 года назад

It's a POS that must be retired already

@Maestroic 2 года назад

really great video, thank you for making it

@WildBillCox13 Год назад

Shared. Off to watch part 2!

@rohantill7141 2 года назад

Saw Migs flying in Sri Lanka as a child and wanted to become a fighter pilot. Ended a Banker and still love those crazy flying machines.

@cfcheadhunter 2 года назад

Love it. Tea and medals 🤣. My favourite plane as a kid. Run Rings round the US Phantom.

@mrbig4532 2 года назад

What are u talking about ? The Phantom shot down more MIG 21’s then any other plane they went up against including 4 th generation fighters . The MIG 21 was a good plane but don’t distort the facts the Phantom was a legend and can still be a deadly weapons platform if flown by a Skilled pilot with experience flying newer fighters.

@julianneale6128 2 года назад

Fantastic and very informative video. Excellent!

@horacioguillermobrizuela4295 4 месяца назад

What a nice and instructive video ¡Thank you so much!

@badbrig 2 года назад

Still consider these one of the most beautiful aircraft ever.

@hujiaming6151 2 года назад

A damn good design indeed, just need a whole new improvement for the 21 century.

@markdavis2475 2 года назад

Nice video, good clear narration, thanks!

@airpaprika 8 месяцев назад

A former Yugoslav Air Force (RV i PVO) pilot who flew all the variants of MiG-21 told me that the most pleasant to fly was PF model, a second generation as you call it. He also flew Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star and Republic F-84G Thunderjet.

@av8bvma513 2 года назад

12:30 That is a folding mirror arrangement usually called a periscope.

@covidhoax7646 2 года назад

“U” is the translation from Russian “у”. У stands for учебный, or “trainer”.

@MarkShinnick Год назад

Beautiful flight demonstration, thanks.

@NewReflex 9 месяцев назад

One of the most beautiful planes ever

@solomonflavius24 6 месяцев назад

100% correct!

@petergorelov418 2 года назад

Thanks for the great video about the great plane! I have to say that Google deceives you: in МИГ-21У, "У" stands for "учебный", /uchebny/ ("training")

@FlywithMagnar 2 года назад

I blame it on Google. What else can I do? ;-p

@petergorelov418 2 года назад

@@FlywithMagnar At least, to have a look at the wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21_variants#Trainer_variants_(1960%E2%80%931968+) Sorry for being square ;)

@adrianrubi5012 2 года назад

Makes me wanna have one. Brand new.

@JulioHernandez-zs5pb 7 месяцев назад

Excellent description of the MIG 21 capabilities.

@robertmatch6550 Год назад

Good information filled content. Thank you.

@rameshsnayar 2 года назад

Flew these for most of my service in the Indian Air Force. A beautiful aircraft with some quirks. Could be flown beyond the stall. Of course you were descending all the time so you had to have enough height below to recover. Those who did not ensure that did not live to tell the tale.

@mverick5444 2 года назад

I heard the landing speed was unusually high

@rameshsnayar 2 года назад

@@mverick5444 Not particularly..About 330 to 340 kmph..Blown flaps and 57 degree sweptback tailed delta. Par for the course, though higher than for eg the MiG-29 or the Su-30

@mverick5444 2 года назад

@@rameshsnayar what base? Hindon Or palam? Or something else?

@rameshsnayar 2 года назад

@@mverick5444 Jamnagar with TACDE

@tomsanders5566 2 года назад

Aircraft Mechanic here. There's incorrect information about air over flaps providing lift. It's incorrect because the air after going through the compressor & diffuser sections of the engine is actually slowed down the by the fins in said sections as it compresses the air. Due to this it wouldn't provide any actual or meaningful lift when being bled off over the flaps. Flaps themselves provide lift as designed by changing the airflow over the wing.

@mitri5389 2 года назад

uhh wrong... bleed air flaps help immensely, thin wings that cant handle having larger flaps instead use it to produce equal amounts of lift. the mig 21 drops 30 meters when SPS system is disengaged manually during takeoff. touch down with SPS its around 250 kmh without, its around 300 plus.

@tomsanders5566 2 года назад

@@mitri5389 bleed air is just that, bled air. There’s no enough pressure nor any thrust for that matter to give the plane any lift regardless of how thick or thin the wing is. If it did in any case it’d only by my estimate increase the speed of aircraft by 0.000001% thus pointless

@notjackschannel5380 2 года назад

Very interesting! Thank you.

@geoh7777 2 года назад

I saw one of these at the airport outside of Arad, Romania on a misty January or February day in 1991. He circled the airport at a very low altitude of around 300 feet??? From where I was standing, he looked like he was zipping though the distant trees. I couldn't even tell what it was (had to be a Mig-21), but it was going quite fast. It was a sight like I never saw in the U.S.

@stugiii_ausf_h 2 года назад

MiG-21U was produced since 1962 (plus there are 2 more training variants - US and UM). And "U" doesn't stand for "obuchenie" (noun = learning) it stands for "uchebnyi" (adjective = training) instead. Nice video though.

@luckylab5986 2 года назад

Indian Mig 21 shot down Pakistan F 16 block 50 and mig pilot got most prestigious award from Indian president recently, it total depend upon the pilot capability 💪💪💪🇮🇳🇮🇳 Jai hind

@yimmeistaryimmeistar7239 2 года назад

EXCELLENT Presentation and information. Very interesting and well done!

@VeerRules007 2 года назад

Shooting down pakistan's F-16 by the upgraded version of Indian Air force's MiG 21 Bison just 2-3 years ago.. proves that this plane is still beast and having a upper hand on some new generation Jets flown by unskilled pilots.

@robertmaybeth3434 2 года назад

"Offered Finland the Mig-21 for German aggression"? You have a great translation, but any "German aggression against Finland" post 1945 was so unlikely as to be nearly impossible.

@R.U.1.2. 2 года назад

That was not Finnish-Soviet geopolitics at the time. There was an uneasy post-war alliance, the Russians were still ticked with the Finns at that time, right into the 1950s. Remember a guy named Stalin? When they say "offered". they mean "coerced into acquiring", and, the aircraft were dirt cheap. Don't forget the Germans and Finns were allies at the beginning of the war.