Having defined a whole era of warfare and earned plaudits for the victories it endowed the Indian forces with in the 1965, 1971 and 1999 wars, the jets lost their war with obsolescence

xIt wasn’t just nostalgia that the farewell ceremony was suffused with as the last two squadrons of MiG-21 air force jets — Cobras and Panthers — took a bow Friday. There was a near reverence usually reserved for great soldiers and airmen that was evident for the flying machines as the veteran combat jets of 62-years standing in the Indian Air Force were decommissioned.

Having defined a whole era of warfare and earned plaudits for the victories it endowed the Indian forces with in the 1965, 1971 and 1999 wars, the jets lost their war with obsolescence. They may have become accident-borne to the extent of b

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