Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF "Fishbed-J"

The MiG-21MF (izdeliye 96F, 1970) was the export version of the Soviet MiG-21SM. It combined the more powerful Tumansky R13-300 engine with the RP-22 "Sapfir-21" radar and, after a decade without one, an internal twin-barrel 23 mm GSh-23L cannon with 200 rounds, freeing the centreline for a drop tank.

Production ran in Moscow from 1969 to 1974, and the Gorky plant added 231 more in 1975–76. The MF became the backbone of the Warsaw Pact fighter forces — East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria all flew it — and Bangladesh received 12 MiG-21MFs from 1973.

East Germany's Jagdfliegergeschwader 1 at Holzdorf flew its last MiG-21 mission on 26 September 1990, days before reunification. Romania later rebuilt many of its MiG-21MF and MF-75 airframes into the LanceR A and C.