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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
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 ...
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 ...
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
On November 6, 1950, ... {Fighter}(MiG-21PFM,F-5), 66th Air Regiment ... since this fighter plane was then the best the Communist bloc 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;
Six divisions of MiG-9s, each with two regiments of 31 aircraft, were transferred to China in November–December 1950 for air defense and training duties. The 17th Guards Fighter Aviation Division (GIAD) defended Shenyang , the 20th Fighter Aviation Division (IAD) guarded Tangshan , and the 65th IAD protected Guangzhou .
On November 9, 1950, a MiG-15 was destroyed in combat for the first time, when Lieutenant Commander William T. Amen of the US Navy, in a F9F-2B Panther, shot down and killed Captain Mikhail F. Grachev. [1] In response to the deployment of MiG-15s, the UN's P-51 squadrons began to convert to jet fighters.