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When the system began the names were assigned by the Air Standardization Coordinating Committee (ASCC), made up of the English-speaking allies of the Second World War, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and two non-NATO countries, Australia and New Zealand. The ASCC names were adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense and then NATO.
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (Russian: Микоян-Гуревич МиГ-15; USAF/DoD designation: Type 14; NATO reporting name: Fagot) is a jet fighter aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich for the Soviet Union. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful jet fighters to incorporate swept wings to achieve high transonic speeds.
The alphanumeric designations (e.g. AA-2) are assigned by the Department of Defense. A—air-to-air missiles, example AA-2 Atoll: List of NATO reporting names for air-to-air missiles; K—air-to-surface missiles (from the Russian Kh designation), example AS-6 Kingfish: List of NATO reporting names for air-to-surface missiles
NATO reporting name/Air Standardization Coordinating Committee (ASCC) names for miscellaneous aircraft, with Soviet and Chinese designations, sorted by reporting name: Soviet Union/Russia [ edit ]
Spin Scan – The RP-21 Sapfir (sapphire) radar set featured in the MiG-21; Spin Trough – Navigational radar [1] Square Head – Identification friend or foe antenna [1] Square Pair – fire control radar of the SA-5 system; Square Tie – surface search radar for small combatants and cruise missile target designation. [1] Chinese type 352. [2]
Fighter, MiG's first jet, prototype called I-300, testbed for variants MiG-15: Fagot 1947 Production Fighter, world's most-produced jet, prototype called I-310 MiG-17: Fresco 1950 Production Fighter, based on the MiG-15 MiG-19: Farmer 1952 Production Fighter, MiG's first supersonic fighter, first mass-produced supersonic fighter, prototype ...
President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday named former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as his pick for the next ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a key alliance that ...
U.S. DoD designations for SA-N series naval surface-to-air missiles, with Soviet designations. Note that these are not standard NATO names, NATO uses the regular SA series for naval SAMS also, however the US DoD refers to them by these names: SA-N-1 Goa (4К90 Volna) [SA-3] SA-N-2 Guideline (М-2 Volkhov-M) [SA-2] SA-N-3 Goblet (4K60/4K65 Shtorm)