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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-15 in the Korean War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Operation Moolah was a United States Air Force (USAF) effort during the Korean War to obtain through defection a fully capable Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter. [1] Communist forces introduced the MiG-15 to Korea on November 1, 1950. [2]
Fighter, MiG's first jet, prototype called I-300, testbed for variants MiG-15: Fagot 1947 Production Fighter, world's most-produced jet, prototype called I-310 MiG-17: Fresco 1950 Production Fighter, based on the MiG-15 MiG-19: Farmer 1952 Production Fighter, MiG's first supersonic fighter, first mass-produced supersonic fighter, prototype ...
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21: Fagin: Chengdu J-20 [2] Fagot: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 [3] Fang: Lavochkin La-11: Fantail: Lavochkin La-15: Fantan: Nanchang Q-5/A-5: Fargo: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9: Farmer: Shenyang J-6 and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 [4] Feather: Yakovlev Yak-15/Yak-17: Felon: Sukhoi Su-57 [5] Fencer: Sukhoi Su-24 [6] Fiddler: Tupolev Tu ...
The Lavochkin La-15 (Plant 21 product code Izdeliye 52, USAF reporting name Type 21, [2] NATO reporting name Fantail [3]), was an early Soviet jet fighter and a contemporary of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 [1] which was in service with the Soviet Air Force from 1949 till 1953.
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]
In September the defection of a MiG-15 pilot (with his aircraft) enabled US pilots to assess their erstwhile opponent at first hand. The MiG that Lieutenant No Kum-sok flew into Kimpo on September 21 was one of the later MiG-15SDs. [34] More recent research by Dorr, Lake and Thompson however has claimed the actual ratio is closer to 2 to 1. [35]
Franciszek Jarecki (born September 7, 1931 – died October 24, 2010 [1]) was a pilot in the Polish Air Force, who became famous in early 1953 when he escaped Soviet-controlled Poland in a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet, one of the best Soviet planes at that time.