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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.
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 was the successor to the Soviet Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau (Микоя́н и Гуре́вич, МиГ; OKB-155 design office prefix MiG) founded in 1939 by aircraft designers Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Mikoyan were notable for their fighter and interceptor aircraft which became a staple of the Soviet Air Force and ...
MiG MFI project 1.44/1.42: Flipper: Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150: Flogger: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 and MiG-27: Flora: Yakovlev Yak-23: Flounder: Xian JH-7: Forger: Yakovlev Yak-38: Foxbat: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25: Foxhound: Mikoyan MiG-31 [10] Frank: Yakovlev Yak-9: Fred: Bell P-63 Kingcobra: Freehand: Yakovlev Yak-36: Freestyle: Yakovlev Yak-41/Yak ...
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 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.
The MiG-21 jet fighter was a continuation of Soviet jet fighters, starting with the subsonic MiG-15 and MiG-17, and the supersonic MiG-19.A number of experimental Mach 2 Soviet designs were based on nose intakes with either swept-back wings, such as the Sukhoi Su-7, or tailed deltas, of which the MiG-21 would be the most successful.
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-19; NATO reporting name: Farmer) is a Soviet second generation, single-seat, twinjet fighter aircraft. It was the first Soviet production aircraft capable of supersonic speeds in level flight.
Over 18,000 MiG-15s were eventually manufactured, then came the MiG-17, and MiG-19. The MiG-15s were the jets used during the Korean War by Communist forces, and "MiG Alley" was the name given by U.S. Air Force pilots to the northwestern portion of North Korea, where the Yalu River empties into the Yellow Sea.