Diecast Aircraft Information

MetalWings Diecast Aircraft Reference by Dauntless Aviation

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.

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. A small, fast, agile, dependable and most importantly simple making it
easy to turn out great numbers of the plane.

In the early 1970’s the Vietnam People's Air Force 921 Sao Do was equipped with MiG-
21MFs and went on to take part flying against the U.S. “Operation Linebacker”. On
December 27, 1972 the VPAF claim the MiG-21MF “5121” flown by Pham Tuan shot
down a USAF B-52 but this is disputed by the USAF. After the Vietnam War Pham Tuan
became the first Vietnam citizen to go into space aboard the Soyuz 37 “Gorbatko”. His
MiG-21MF “5121” is on display at the Vietnamese Air Force Museum in Hanoi.

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series
HA0182
MIG-21MF Jet Fighter
5121, pilot Pham Tuan
921st "Sao Do", Dec 1972

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