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1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Pages in category "1950s Soviet fighter aircraft" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
It also includes both native Soviet designs, Soviet-produced copies of foreign designs, and foreign-produced aircraft that served in the military of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its successor states of the CIS. The service time frame begins with the year the aircraft entered military service (not the date of first flight ...
Soviet and Russian aircraft by decade of first flight 19th century • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s • 2020s
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-19; NATO reporting name: Farmer) is a Soviet second generation, single-seat, twinjet fighter aircraft. It was the first Soviet production aircraft capable of supersonic speeds in level flight.
Soviet and Russian military aircraft by decade of first flight 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 1990s Russian • 2000s • 2010s
Starting in the early 1950s, the development of the T-3 proceeded in parallel with the S-1 which would eventually become the Sukhoi Su-7.While the S-1 was a conventional swept wing aircraft (S stood for strelovidniy, стреловидный, swept wing), the T-3 had a delta wing with a leading edge sweep of 57° (T stood for treugolniy, треугольный, delta wing). [1]
The pictures above demonstrate the still amazing visual effects that occur as military aircraft punch through the sound barrier and travel faster than sound itself. More from Business Insider:
Mikoyan, also known as Mikoyan-Gurevich, is a renowned Soviet aircraft manufacturer founded in 1939 by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. They produced some of the most iconic fighter jets in aviation history.