The MiG-15 shocked Western pilots during the Korean War with its speed, climb rate, and heavy firepower. Its arrival changed ...
Key Point: America wanted its hands on the Soviet-built MiG-15. So what is a capitalist superpower to do but offer a lot of cold, hard, cash? Korea, 1953. The United States’ latest fighter jet, the ...
When people think of early Cold War Soviet jet fighters, they think about MiGs and not much else. If modern Hollywood Korean and Vietnam War movies were taken as gospel, you'd assume MiG 15s, 17s, 19s ...
However, the Red Army captured numerous scientists, research facilities and prototype technologies when it rolled into eastern Germany—including Jumo 004 and BMW 003 turbojets designed for the Nazi’s ...
An abandoned MIG 15 jet returns to flight after 12 years of restoration. This video follows the aircraft’s revival and the story behind bringing it back to the sky. What stood out most to you?
I know, the way MiGs are behaving in the skies over and bordering Ukraine these days might make this topic a sensitive pill to swallow. But you have to admit, given the fighter plane family's history ...
Amazing footage brings us back to the age of the “Red Eagles” of Project CONSTANT PEG. Almost one year ago, we reported about a two-seat MiG-15UTI jet that was spotted in the Jedi Transition (the low ...
The Cold War set the stage for aerial combat between iconic jet-powered fighter aircraft. By the early 1950s, the world's superpowers' first generation of jet fighters were ready for battle. They just ...
On December 17, 1950, the first known aerial combat between swept-wing jet fighters took place in the skies over Korea. The Russian-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 had been recently introduced and its ...
VITEBSK, 19 May (BelTA) – A solemn opening ceremony of a MiG-15 aircraft exhibit took place at premises of the Polotsk Cadet School. The event was timed to the fifth anniversary since the death of ...