8700 kg Max. The fuselage is round. Large cone protrudes from the round air intake in the nose. Tail fin is large and tall. Wings are delta-shaped.
Tail plane is swept.
Landing gear is retractable with nose wheel retracting into the fuselage and main wheels retracting partly in the wings and partly in the fuselage. A large streamlined fuel tank is often carried under the fuselage. Twin-barrel gun is housed under the fuselage between the air brakes. MiG-21 was finished in 1958 and it went in production in 1959. It was a MiG-21 stripped of almost all equipment with a tiny canopy.