In fact, North Korea still relies on old Soviet-era MiG-21 warplanes the country acquired from the Soviet Union in the 1960s. North Korea wants its neighbors—and the United States—to fear it.

The MiG-21 had no official Russian identifier ... Today, 18 countries still operate this warbird, including Cuba and North Korea, not to mention NATO allies Croatia and Romania.

Credit: U.S. Air Force/ Senior Airman Trevor Gordnier Subscribe for ads-free reading During the Cold War the Korean People’s Army (KPA) Air Force, the official name of North Korea’s air force ...

The skies over Kashmir saw one of the most debated dogfights in recent history — the MiG-21 vs the F-16 ... show the catastrophic damage to North Korea's new destroyer that's lying on its ...

After receiving state of the art MiG-21 fighters from the Soviet Union from 1963, North Korea quickly deployed them to intercept U.S. aircraft that it claimed violated its airspace. North Korean ...

On April 15, 1969, North Korean MiG fighter planes shot down an American ... just 35 miles from the border.) On May 21, the Joint Chiefs came up with a medium-size approach—sending three B ...

shares performance characteristics with the MiG-21 but incorporates several distinct parts. North Korea's reported possession of more than 130 J-7 aircraft suggests a significant inventory of ...

A veteran of more than 100 combat flights, the 21-year-old pilot climbed ... a $100,000 reward to the first North Korean pilot to defect with a MIG. Rowe maintained that he knew nothing of that ...

SIMI VALLEY, California—The top U.S. officer in the Pacific says Russia has reached an agreement with North Korea to send MiG-29 and Su-27 fighter aircraft to Pyongyang in return for that nation ...

21, 1953, he had seemingly pulled off ... over North Korea offering a $100,000 reward to the first North Korean pilot to defect with a MIG. Mr. Rowe maintained that he knew nothing of that reward ...