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.

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 North Korean military has unveiled a new class of domestically developed air-to-air missile as well as a standoff weapon kit in a live firing exercise witnessed by leader Kim Jong Un. Photos ...

North Korea has conducted a live-fire test of a domestically developed medium-range air-to-air missile (AAM). The missile, shown publicly for the first time during a recent inspection by Supreme ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...