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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.
NATO reporting name/ASCC names for miscellaneous aircraft, with Soviet designations, sorted by Soviet designation: ... Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI "Midget"
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.
NATO report name for the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 turbojet fighter; The name for the bassoon in multiple languages; See also
Type NATO Common name 1 Fargo Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9: 2 Feather Yakovlev Yak-15: 3 Lavochkin La-150: 4 Lavochkin La-152: 5 Lavochkin La-156: 6 Lavochkin La-160 Strelka
The twin-engine MiG-29, NATO codename ‘Fulcrum’, was developed as an agile and relatively affordable and exportable short-range tactical fighter analogous to the U.S. F-16. It was meant to ...
MiG I-222 (3A) - I-221 with an AM-39B-1 turbo-supercharged engine and other changes, 1943; production version would have been designated MiG-7 (not to be confused with the MiG-3 variant of the same name) MiG I-224 (4A) - I-222 with an aluminum cockpit and special high-altitude propeller, 1944