MAQUETTE À MONTER - MiG-21 PFM Eduard | N° 8237 | 1:48 **LIKE NEW INSIDE UNOPENED**

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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 predecessor included such notable types as the MiG-15, MiG-17 and the supersonic MiG-19. The roots of the project reach back to the first half of the fifties. In 1954, the Ye-1 project came to an end, and was quickly provided with 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 employed in a world record 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. Subsequent versions included the PF, FL, PFM, R, S, N and PD, the production of which peaked in the fifties and the beginning of the sixties. Subsequent 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 variants, 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 worlds attempt to eliminate Israel. Thanks to the high volume of use, the highest number of aces produced on the type served in Vietnam. The top of the ladder is occupied by Nguyen Van Coc with nine kills. This 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 is specific to the building of a model of the MiG-21PFM. In factory documentation, the export version is identified as Izdelye 94A or designation MiG-21PF-13 was also applied. It was powered by a Tumansky R-11F2-300, and armed with a twin barreled cannon GP-9 and the version built for Soviet armed forces as Izdelye 94. It was powered by a Tumansky R-11F2S-300, and armed with a twin barreled cannon GSh-23L with ammunition of 200 rounds per each weapon in the container GP-9 under the fuselage. Hardpoints at the wings could still be loaded with RS-3US, R-3S and R-3R missiles, UB-16-57 rocket pods, S-24 unguided rockets and bombs up to 500kg in size. NATO assigned MiG-21PFM the codename Fishbed F.

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