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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 United States Department of Defense (DOD) expands on the NATO reporting names in some cases. NATO refers to surface-to-air missile systems mounted on ships or submarines with the same names as the corresponding land-based systems, but the US DOD assigns a different series of numbers with a different prefix (i.e., SA-N- versus SA-) for these systems.
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 ...
"Mongol" Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 two-seat trainer version "Moose" Yakovlev Yak-11 "Mop" PBY Catalina "Moss" Tupolev Tu-126 "Mote" Beriev MBR-2 "Moujik" Sukhoi Su-7U "Mug" Beriev Be-4 "Mule" Po-2 (U-2) "Mystic" Myasishchev M-17/M-55; NATO reporting name/ASCC names for miscellaneous aircraft, with Soviet designations, sorted by Soviet designation ...
This list does not include fictional aircraft or concepts that were abandoned before a prototype was built. In the US Air Force the naming convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”.
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]
Before the NATO ASCC reporting names became widely used, the USAF and United States Department of Defense applied their own system of allocating code names on newly discovered Soviet aircraft. Each item was given a type number sequentially, but it soon became obvious that the system was impractical over a long period of time, being abandoned in ...