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MiG-21UM |
MiG-21UM (NL-16) serial number 16178 as seen while in service with 101st Fighter Squadron, 204th Brigade, Serbian Air Force, at Batajnica AB in 2015. Delivered to the RV i PVO in 1979, it served with nearly all of its fighter aviation squadrons over the following 20 years. Following the Dayton Agreement, it was disarmed in 1997 – which included the removal of its underwing pylons, all the weapons-related wiring and sights – and converted to a ‘pure’ supersonic trainer, designated the NL-16Š (š stood for ‘školski’ or ‘trainer’). As such – and with its overall appearance in a rather sorry state – it was one of the last three two-seat MiG-21s still in service with the SV, as illustrated here. The inset shows the crest of the Moma Stanojlović Works. Constructed at Batajnica AB in the 1980s, this was responsible for the overhaul of all MiG-21s of the former RV i PVO and then the SV, from 1992. (Artwork by Tom Cooper)