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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 ...
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 ]
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
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 ...
The NATO Air Standardization Coordinating Committee reporting name system (used because designations of new types were often unknown to NATO) was based on an initial letter indicating type of aircraft (B = bomber, C = cargo, F = fighter, H = helicopter, M = miscellaneous) or missile, and 1 syllable if propeller-driven or 2 if jet- or rocket ...
Spin Scan – The RP-21 Sapfir (sapphire) radar set featured in the MiG-21; Spin Trough – Navigational radar [1] Square Head – Identification friend or foe antenna [1] Square Pair – fire control radar of the SA-5 system; Square Tie – surface search radar for small combatants and cruise missile target designation. [1] Chinese type 352. [2]
The Lim-6 (NATO reporting name Fresco) was a Polish attack aircraft used between 1961 and 1992 by the Polish Air Force. It was a variant of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 , which was produced in Poland as the Lim-5.