MiG-21bis Fishbed

The MiG-21bis is a Cold War-era fighter jet that is seen throughout the Ace Combat series.

Strangereal
Numerous countries on Strangereal utilize the MiG-21bis as a sort of "first-strike" aircraft; these are typically the aircraft a belligerent will send in first before any of their other, more advanced aircraft. As such, encounters with these MiGs are usually brief, favoring the pilots not flying them. Still, they retained this status quo until at least 2010, when they were used by Yuktobania immediately prior to the Circum-Pacific War.

MiG-21bis's have not been confirmed to be in use following 2010. It is highly likely that after Osean President Vincent Harling released all information concerning Circum-Pacific War, other countries took notice of the uselessness of the MiGs against rookie pilots and scrapped the planes.

Infinity timeline
Thanks to Advanced Automated Aviation, the MiG-21bis rose to fame once more in the late 2010s since they were some of the cheapest aircraft to reproduce. Arrows Air Defense and Security acquired a number of these, allowing Viper to use one. The ace pilot heavily customized it using the majority of his earnings from operations.

Game Analysis
Ace Combat 2=
 * AVAILABILITY
 * Available as first aircraft instead of the F-4E Phantom II if playing in Extra mode.


 * STATISTICS
 * Power: Low
 * Defense: Low
 * Mobility: Low
 * Stability: Medium
 * Climbing Ability: 45
 * Air-to-Air: Low
 * Air-to-Ground: Low

Gallery

Trivia

 * In Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, the cone sticking out of the plane's nose is retractable.
 * In the "Unlockables" section, the name of the aircraft is misspelled as "Mig-21bis".