Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

A MIG 21 Lancer aircraft crashed on Tuesday near Reghin, Mures County. The information was confirmed to AGERPRES by Constantin Spanu, an official of the Defence Ministry. The aircraft belonged to Air Base 71 at Campia Turzii, Cluj County. According to the official, the pilot managed to eject himself.

Today Bulgaria is celebrating the feast of aviation and the Bulgarian Air Force.

On October 16, 1912, pilot Radul Milkov and observer Prodan Tarakchiev made the world's first combat flight by bombing the Edirne Fortress from the air.

A MiG-29 fighter jet crashed during a training flight in Slovakia. The pilot was able to catapult and survive, according to the Department of Defense. The incident happened in the western part of the country.

Servicemen with the Romanian Land and Air Forces will be present at the NATO Days, due to take place Friday through Sunday, in Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) informs in a release sent to AGERPRES on Thursday.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told the ceremony at the Ministry of Defence building in Zagreb on Sunday that the MiG-21 fighter plane was one of the main symbols of Croatia's 1991-95 'Homeland War'.

Plenkovic said that its return after 28 years of quiet diplomacy and government efforts was a mark of honour for all Croatian veterans and their families.

In Constanta, Romania begins the Bulgarian-Romanian anti-mine "Poseidon - 2019".

SOFIA, Bulgaria (BulgarianMilitary.com), 19 September 2018, Editor: Stanislava Georgieva, 

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a MiG-31 aircraft crashed in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

These fighter planes Serbia received as a donation from Russian Federation.

A Romanian military IAR 99 Soim trainer aircraft crashed on Monday during an exercise in eastern Romania, a week after one of its old Soviet MiG-21 Lancer fighter jets crashed during an air show, killing the pilot.