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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. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.
One IAF Mi-17 and one IAF MiG-21 were shot down by Pakistan Army Air Defence ... 63 Mi-17s were acquired through the 2011 contract at a cost of US$16.4 to US$18.4 ...
Mikoyan was established on 8 December 1939 as the Pilot Design Department of the Aviation Plant #1 and headed by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich.It was later renamed "Experimental Design Bureau named after A.I. Mikoyan" otherwise known as the Mikoyan Design Bureau or Mikoyan OKB. [5]
The first 500 production examples cost an average of $860,000 ... and one A-4 was lost in aerial combat to a MiG-17 on 25 April 1967. [28] Training and adversary role
It was 30% lighter than its predecessor at the cost of a 23% lower muzzle velocity. ... The N-37 was used in the MiG-9, MiG-15, MiG-17, and early MiG-19 fighters, ...
Two USAF F-5Es flanking a MiG-17 and MiG-21 of the 4477th Tactical Evaluation Squadron. Tactical Air Command (TAC) established the 4477th Test and Evaluation Flight as the formal USAF testing unit on 1 April 1977. It began with three MiGs: two MiG-17Fs and a MiG-21 loaned by Israel, who had captured them from the Syrian Air Force and Iraqi Air ...
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.
A light fighter or lightweight fighter is a fighter aircraft towards the low end of the practical range of weight, cost, ... were all lost to MiG-17 cannon fire.