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| Mikojan-Gurevics MiG-21BISz (75AP) |
The lack of supersonic multi-role aircraft prompted the RV i PVO to compensate through the deployment of MiG-21bis for battlefield interdiction and CAS purposes. Correspondingly, during the second half of the 1980s, MiG-21bis pilots of 117th Fighter Aviation Regiment were re-trained for ground attack, and their aircraft adapted to deploy British-made Hunting BL.755 CBUs, some 4,500 of which were acquired. During the war in Slovenia, 117th Regiment kept a flight of four MiG-21bis from 125th Fighter Aviation Squadron on alert, all armed with BL.755s. One of these was serial number 17210, which originally served with 204th Fighter Aviation Regiment before being handed over to 125th Squadron/117th Regiment. As usual for Yugoslav MiG-21bis, it was painted in ‘air superiority grey’ overall, wore the roundels in four positions, serials also in four positions, and the large national tricolour across the fin. Notable is the patch of the Zmaj Works, applied near the top of the fin on all aircraft that had been overhauled there. (Artwork by Tom Cooper)