Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series
HA0143
Syrian Air Force MiG-21MF (2300) 5th Squadron 1973-1982
Limited Edition
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True 1/72 scale
Professionally painted
Great attention to detail
All markings are Tampoed (pad applied)
Option to display the model on a stand that is provided
Model can be shown with the landing gear in the down or up positions
Loads of optional armament has been provided
Canopy can be displayed open or closed
Extremely heavy metal with a minimum of plastic
Highly collectable
Mig-21MF Specs:
Power Plant:
One 41.55kN (9,340lb st) or 64.73kN (14,550lb st) with afterburner
Tumansky R-13-300
turbojet
Dimensions
Wingspan: 7.15m (23ft 5½in)
Length: 15.76m (51ft 8½in) - including Pitot boom
Max T-O weight: 9,400kg (20,725lb)
Performance
Max speed: Mach 2.1 (2,230km/h - 1,385mph) above 11,000m
(36,000ft) Mach 1.06
(1,300km/h - 807mph) at low level
Range: 1,100km (683 miles) - internal fuel only 1,800km (1,118
miles) - with three
external drop tanks, one under fuselage, one under each wing
Armament
One 23mm twin-barrel GSh-23 cannon with 200 rounds in belly pack
Various air-to-air and air-to-ground stores carried on four under
wing pylons including:
K-13A "Atoll" or "Advanced Atoll" a-a missiles,
UV-16-57 rocket packs,
S-24 a-s rockets,
250kg and 500kg bombs
1 X centre line drop tank.
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The Mig-21 was originally built by the Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau in the
Soviet Union with a NATO nickname Fishbed. No other jet has had as many planes
produced as the Mig-21. Depending on the reference source 8,000 - 13,000 planes
of all versions were made in the Soviet Union, under license to allied countries and
China without license. At the time of its introduction into the Soviet Air Force service in
1959, it was exactly what they wanted. A small, fast, agile, dependable and most
importantly simple making it easy to turn out great numbers of the plane. The skies of
Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America seemed to be filled with thousands of
the Mig-21. Because of its relatively low cost since it was heavily subsidized by the
Soviets, it became the plane of choice for many third world countries. Taking this into
account this plane has seen more wars then any other modern day jet. The Mig-21 was
used in front line service for over 30 years equaling that of the McDonnell Douglas F-4
Phantom II. There were 5 generations of the plane in many versions and each
generation brought with it great improvements over its predecessors. These are some of
the countries that flew the Mig-21: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Czech
Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, GDR, Guinea, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,
Laos, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar (formerly Burma),
Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Somalia, Soviet
Union, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam,
Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
القوّات الجوية العربية السورية
(Al Quwwat al-Jawwiya al Arabiya as-Souriya)
Syrian Air Force
The Syrian Air Force was formed in 1948 when the first class of Syrian pilots completed
training at a British flight school. Syria and Egypt tried to join together to form a United
Arab state but when that didn’t work out Syria turned to the Soviet Union for
their military needs while Egypt opted for Western technology. Syria was provided with
several types of MiG aircraft of which one type was the MiG-21MF. In conflict after
conflict with the Israeli Air Force Syria always came out with heavy losses. In one day
alone Syria lost 100 aircraft in the skies over Lebanon with zero losses to
the opposition. Through all the encounters and heavy losses MiG-21MF (2300)
managed to survive two wars and was still in service well into the 1990s. The aircraft
was flown with the paint scheme it arrived with from Gorky Park. The two-tone upper
surface camo scheme with a sky blue under side and centerline drop tank was fine over
Syria but not very effective over the Egyptian desert. The serial number is an oddity
because it is smaller than usual and even smaller above the fin-flash. The MiG-21 was
equipped with R-3S missiles on APU-13 launch rails on the inner wing pylons as well as
R-3R missiles on APU-13 launch rails on the outer wing pylons. The aircraft had been
assigned to the Syrian Air Force 5th Squadron based at or near Damascus.
The Syrian roundel is very similar to that of Egypt with three concentric circles.
The inner circle is black surrounded by a white circle that is surrounded by a red circle.
The exception between the two roundels is the Syrian has two green stars on the
opposite sides of the white circle. These are the same markings found on the Syrian
national flag.
  Syrian AF logo
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