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Czech Republic: Mig-21's goodbye to Prague's sky

Prague, Czech Republic - The last flight of the mythic fighter to be replaced by the JAS-39 Gripen

Czech Republic said goodbye to the Mig-21. One of the bast fighters that the Russian aerospace industry ever produced flew for the last time over Prague’s sky before its official retirement from service to be replaced by the JAS-39 Gripen. The Fishbed (according to NATO name) entered service in various versions starting in 1962 and the country kept a total amount of almost 500 in four decades. Czech p...

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Rome, Italy, 07/13/2005 18:16
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