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Liaison aircraft MiG-9: Fargo 1946 Production 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
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Soviet fighter aircraft MiG-15 PZL Mielec Lim-2, Polish variant of the MiG-15bis General information Type Fighter aircraft National origin Soviet Union Manufacturer Mikoyan-Gurevich Status In limited service with the Korean People's Army Air Force Primary users Soviet Air Forces ...
The appearance of the MiG-15 Soviet fighter over the Korean peninsula in November 1950 was initially thought to have placed United Nations aircraft, especially the USAF F-86, at a disadvantage. In a dogfight , the MiG-15 outperformed the F-86 Sabre at higher initial acceleration and could outdistance it in a dive, even though the Sabre had ...
Pages in category "1950s Soviet fighter aircraft" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17; Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19;
In total, 610 aircraft were built, including prototypes, and they entered service in 1948 with the Soviet Air Forces. At least 372 were transferred to the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 1950 to defend Chinese cities against air raids by the Nationalist Chinese and train the Chinese pilots in jet operations. The MiG-9 was quickly replaced ...
In 1950 the Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) design bureau (also known as OKB-155) began work on a new fighter aircraft, intended to have a greater range than the existing MiG-15 and MiG-17 aircraft, and capable of reaching supersonic speeds in level flight.
MiG-17 - 1950 fighter; MiG-19 - 1952 fighter; MiG-21 - 1956 fighter and interceptor; MiG-23 - 1967 fighter and fighter-bomber; MiG-25 - 1964 interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft; MiG-27 - 1970 ground-attack aircraft; MiG-29 - 1977 air superiority fighter and multirole fighter MiG-29M - improved multirole fighter variant of the MiG-29
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) [1] is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally.