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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 ]
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
Scrum Half – fire control radar of the SA-15 system; Side Globe – Electronic warfare jamming radar [1] Side Net – height finder radar of the SA-3 system; Skip Spin – The Oryol ('eagle') radar set featured perhaps most memorably on the Yak-28, but also on the Su-11, and Su-15. Slim Net – Long-range air search radar [1]
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 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.