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MiG PBSh-1 - proposed attack aircraft, 1940; cancelled in favor of the Ilyushin Il-2; also known as the MiG-4; MiG PBSh-2 - biplane derivative of PBSh-1, 1940; also known as the MiG-6; MiG I-210 (IKh) - MiG-3 re-engined with a ASh-82A radial engine, 1941; also known as MiG-3-82 or MiG-9 (not to be confused with the later MiG-9 jet fighter)
The longest continuing United States classified military airplane program is the testing and evaluation of Foreign Aircraft Technology. During the Cold War, secret test flying of Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau (MiG) and other Soviet aircraft was an ongoing mission dating back to the acquisition of the first Soviet-built Yakovlev Yak-23 in 1953.
The Five Eyes Air Force Interoperability Council (AFIC) assigns [1] codenames for fighters and other military aircraft originating in, or operated by, the air forces of the former Warsaw Pact, including Russia, and the People's Republic of China.
As of 2015 the company's business offering consists mostly of modernized MiG-29 aircraft. [10] MiG was developing a 4++ fighter, the MiG-35, with the first deliveries expected in late 2019. Mikoyan is set to fly the PAK DP aka MiG-41 their first stealth interceptor in 2025. [11] [12]
A MiG-29UB of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. Iran had 19 MiG-29s in service as of 2022. [1] Iran bought 20 MiG-29 9.12B from the Soviet Union in 1989 and 4 two seat MiG-29UB aircraft. The also received nine Iraqi MiG-29s that had fled to Iran during the 1991 Gulf War. [26] Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
The 1946–1951 SAC patch (above) was replaced by the patch with insignia that won a SAC contest.. The Strategic Air Forces of the United States during World War II included General Carl Spaatz's European command, United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF), consisting of the 8AF and 15AF, and the United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (USASTAF) and its Twentieth Air Force ...
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The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a radial-engine military trainer aircraft manufactured by North American Aviation and used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a counter-insurgency aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War.