MiG-21 Units of the Vietnam War

Having honed their piloting skills on the subsonic MiG-17 and transonic MiG-19, the Vietnamese Peoples'' Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966.

Soon thrown into combat over North Vietnam, the guided-missile equipped MiG-21 proved a deadly opponent for the USAF, Navy and Marine Corps crews striking at targets deep into communist territory. ...