For the unrelated tropical papaya fruit often called 'papaw' or 'pawpaw', see Carica papaya. For other uses, see Paw Paw (disambiguation). Asimina triloba, the papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, paw-paw, or common pawpaw, is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern United States, producing a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit. It belongs to the genus Asimina in the same plant family (the Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop.
While the new Russian stealth fighter is said to be less âstealthy,â that is, able to evade radar detection, than its U.S. counterparts, it makes up for that slight disadvantage with its incredible maneuverability in the skies that experts say is at least on par with the Raptor and far exceeds the Lightning II.
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Russian: Ð¼Ð¸ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ½ Ð¸ Ð³ÑÑÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ Ð¼Ð¸Ð³-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.he MiG-21 was also used extensively in the Middle East conflicts of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s by Egyptian Air Force, Syrian Air Force and Iraqi Air Force. The MiG-21 first encountered Israeli Mirage III Cs on 14 November 1964, but it was not until 14 July 1966 that the first MiG-21 was shot down.