An outmatched American Lockheed Shooting Star faced off against a Soviet MiG-15 over the Sinuiju bridges. Despite the odds, ...
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Stealing a MiG-15 - Operation Moolah
Sabre was the only jet that could match the MiG-15 in performance. While the Sabre was technologically superior to its Soviet counterpart, the MiG-15 still often outmaneuvered and outgunned the U.S ...
Decades before, the Soviets had experimented with fitting MiG-15 jet engines on the back of ZIL-131 trucks. With a pair of water nozzles bolted up just above the jet exhaust, a powerful blast of ...
To be more specific, the Sea Fury’s maiden flight took place on February 21, 1945. However, it didn’t actually make its official operational debut until August 1947, with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) ...
As one would expect, the transition to jet-powered fighters was fraught with danger—and prototype P-80 test flights resulted ...
Soviet aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan, one of the founders of the Mikoyan military aircraft design bureau later transformed into Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, was born on August 5, 1905.