The nearly 50-year history of the MiG-21 has many exciting and unpublished topics for both the flight enthusiasm and historians alike. One such topic is the ability of the airplane to carry a tactical nuclear bomb, even though its official classification was only a fighter aircraft. The successful introduction of a specialized version of the MiG-21 in the second half of the 1960s progressively expanded the nuclear potential of frontal aviation.
In the 70’s the Soviet Air Force command requirements was to the new type of MiG-21 aircraft whether intended for a nuclear or conventional mission will all be technically capable of nuclear bomb delivery. In same time - after the PFM manufacturing finished in 1969 - immediately start to design and develop new modular special equipment for the upcoming type of MiG-21’s that widespread the MiG-21 family nuclear capability
This book tries to summarize all of the valuable information, documents and photographic evidence that the author collected in the last 15 year about nuclear carrier MiG-21’s. The publication is focusing on the technical requirements, how the airplane became a nuclear carrier, how it’s operated, how their special weapons handled, which equipment required for tactical nuclear bomb delivery. Contain more than 200 photos, 3D renders, drawings and pictures. In addition, the illustrations include many unpublished photographs.