For sixty years, one fighter jet didn’t just serve India; it forged the nation’s soul. The MiG-21 was never merely a machine threading through monsoon clouds or carving contrails across desert skies.

India is preparing to say goodbye to its legendary MiG-21 fighters, the country’s first supersonic jets but also an increasingly controversial aircraft, with a spate of accidents in recent years.

NEW DELHI, July 30 (Reuters) - India will ground all its Soviet-era Russian fighter jets, the MiG-21, by 2025, following the death of two officers in a crash, the latest in a series of casualties ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India retired its last fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets Friday, ending more than six decades of service with an aircraft once celebrated for its combat prowess but later ...