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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Soviet fighter aircraft MiG-15 A Soviet Air Forces MiG-15UTI two-seater trainer over Duxford Air Festival 2017 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 ...
MiG I-300 (F) - prototype for MiG-9, 1946; MiG's first jet fighter design; MiG I-301 (FS) - production version of MiG-9; MiG I-301T (FT) - experimental two-seat trainer version of MiG-9, 1946; first Soviet aircraft with an ejection seat; MiG I-302 (FP) - experimental version of MiG-9 with the N-37 cannon moved to the side of the fuselage
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
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 ...
Seventeen planes won’t change the course of the air war—but they’ll dash Russia’s hopes a bit.
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 ]
Last week, Russia sent the United States a list of its demands for defusing the crisis: a binding promise that Ukraine will never become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, plus ...