Egyptian MiG-21 and an Israeli Mirage in a dogfight on October 20, 1973

Studying the anatomy of both planes and the fighting power gives the advantage to a Mirage jet fighter to win such a dogfight. The shocking surprise is that the Israeli Mirage totally failed to down that MiG-21 and that “Crazy Egyptian Pilot“ as described by the Israeli opponent fighter himself was able to perform a number different very difficult air combat maneuvers the most difficult of which was the split-S maneuver. The Split-S is a safe maneuver at 6500-10,000 feet and its very difficult to perform it