Ulyanovsk paratroopers restored a monument dedicated to the feats of the Guards Fighter Aviation Division in the form of a MiG-21 aircraft in the village of Askania-Nova. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The paratroopers strengthened the base on which the plane is held, washed the fighter itself and restored the stars and its number on it.
The MiG-21 monument was erected in memory of the heroism of the unit under the command of Alexander Pokryshkin, which fought air battles with German pilots.
MiG-21 (NATO codification: Fishbed) — Soviet light supersonic front-line fighter of the second and third generations, developed by the Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau in the second half of the 1950s. The first "MiG" with a triangular wing.
MiG-21 is the most common supersonic aircraft in history, also the most massive 2nd generation fighter, the military nickname is "Dove of Peace". In the process of serial production, the MiG-21 aircraft was modernized and modified in the direction of developing functionality and improving flight performance.
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