阿尔滕姆·米高扬

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MiG

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Fighter MiG-15

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Destroyer “MiG-15” 1944 it was the period of the baptism of fire of military jet aviation, and its formation occurred during the Korean war. The US Air Force began military actions, being confident to 100%, that they have best aviation equipment in the world. And the very beginning of Korean war, it seemed, strengthened Americans in this opinion. That large shock was for them the appearance of Soviet destroyers “MiG-15”. During entire history of world aviation not one newly developed aircraft produced this furore as “MiG-15”. The West was stupefied, since even it did not suspect, that this aircraft is already built. American pilots for the first time refer with it in the air battles above Korea. Pilots could not believe their eyes: destroyer very rapidly gained altitude and he dived swifter the best American machines, and also had excellent maneuverability. “MiG-15” it were created thus. After World War II Great Britain returned to the Soviet Union the new English turbojet engine of the “Nina”, which let out the firm “Rolls-Royce”. Englishmen themselves by this time placed not one such motor on the domestic aircraft. Because of this gift at the end of 1947 the aircraft “MiG-15” equipped shityu the nelitsenzirovannymi modifications of the engine of the “Nina” and approached the test flights. “MiG-15” was singleseater fighter with the turbojet engine “VK -1” by thrust 2700 kg. it had the maximum speed of 1076 km/h, a ceiling of the gain of altitude of 15 500 m, a flying range 1330 km, with the use of suspension tanks – 1860 km the mass of empty aircraft was 3681 kg, maximum takeoff mass – 6050 kg. Spread is wing “MiG-15” – 10,08 m, the length of 10,86 m, a height of 3,4 m, wing area 20,6 m2. Aircraft in arsenal had one 37- millimeter gun “N -37” and two 23- millimeter guns “NS -23”, to 500 kg of bombs on the wingtip pylons. Certainly, during the Korean war Soviet pilots, who piloted “MiG-15”, bore large losses, but this can be explained by their inexperience: was too little naletano hour during the trainings. To 1960. “MiG-15” as the destroyer it stood in arsenal of the armies of 15 countries of peace. But into that moment, when these small, brisk machines appeared in the airspace of Korea, they introduced large correctives into the arrangement of forces and almost instantly changed balance, after showing Americans, yes even to entire West, that the Soviet Union possesses necessary technologies and sufficiently developed industrial infrastructure in order to produce contemporary aviation engineering.

Korean air war statistics from sources of USA and USSR

Data from:
	USA	USSR
Overall losses of American planes	2837
Combat losses of American planes		1097+271 *
Combat losses of F86 Sabres	103 ? LoL!	651+181 *
Combat losses of B29 Super Fortress	17	69
Combat losses of F84 Thunder Jet	18	186+27 *
Combat losses of F80 Shooting Star	15	117+30 *
Combat losses of F51 Mustang	12	28+12 *
Combat losses of Meteor G.8	5	28+7 *
Rescued US pilots (it’s interesting to compare with the number of lost planes)	1000++
Kills by B29	34	0
Kills by Sabres	810
Losses of MiGs by Sabres	792
Losses of MiGs	885	335+231 *
Combat losses of other Communist planes	69
Not-combat losses of Communist planes	1800	~10+? *

* The 1st number is for the Soviets, the 2nd number is for United Air Army of China and Korea

Some Air Combats

The world 1st jet-vs-jet kill. On November 1st, 1950 was the encounter of MiG-15 and F80 flights. The Soviet pilot Khominyh shot down one of the Shooting Stars. The Americans hide this loss, and did so in future. Many shot down planes were writen-off as “not-combat losses”.

F80 shot down

12th April 1951. 48 escorted B29 tried to attack a bridge over Yalutsyan river. 36 MiG-15 shot down 9 bombers. The Americans said 3 lost and 7 damaged SuperFortresses, and claimed 9 MiGs from 64..72 attackers, plus 6 probablies and 4 damaged. In fact, all Soviet fighters returned safety.

12th September 1951. 80 MiG-15 attaked about 150 F80, which strafed ground targets between Anchzu and Phenian. 15 Shooting Stars were shot down, 3 MiGs were damaged.

“The Black Tuesday”. 30th October 1951. 21 B29 escorted by about 200 F86 and F84, tried to attack Namsi airfield. They were intercepted by 44 MiGs, which shot down 12 B29 and 4 F84. 1 MiG-15 was shot down by Sabres. The rest of SuperFortresses were damaged, but managed to escape. According the American sources, were lost 8 bombers.

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МиГ-21 diagram

РУКОТВОРНЫЕ МОЛНИИ RUKOTVORNYE MOLNII

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СВЕРХЗВУКОВЫЕ РЕАКТИВНЫЕ ИСТРЕБИТЕЛИ SVERHZVUKOVYE REAKTIVNYE ISTREBITELI

	МиГ-21Ф-13 MiG-21F-13	“ Мираж-111С ” “Mirazh-111S”	F-104G	SAAB-35D	F-5E
Размах крыла, м Wingspan, m	7,154 7154	8,2 8.2	6,68 6.68	9,4 9.4	8,14 8.14
Длина самолета, м The length of the aircraft, m	15,76 15.76	13,83 13.83	16,69 16.69	15,35 15.35	14,69 14.69
Площадь крыла, м2 Area wing m2	23,0 23.0	34,1 34.1	18,28 18.28	49,2 49.2	17,29 17.29
Тяга двигателя, кгс Engine Thrust, kgs	5750	6200	7167	8000	2Х2268 2 H2268
Взлетный вес, кгс Take-off weight kgs	7570	11800	9510	11400	6985
Скорость км/ч Speed km / h	2125	2220	2120	2100	1700
на высоте, м at the height m	12500	12000	12200	11500	11000
Скорость у земли, км/ч The speed of the land km / h		1490	1470	1400	1200
Потолок, м Ceiling, m	19000	23000	17680	16700	16300
Дальность полета, км Range km	1580	650	819	635	1400
Вооружение: пушечное, шт/калибр Armament: gun, pc / Caliber	1Х30 1 H30	2Х30 2 H30	1Х20 1 H20	2Х30 2 H30	2Х20 2 H20
ракетное, кол-во ракет “ воздух — воздух ” the missile, number of missiles and air-to-air “	2	2	4	4	2

СВЕРХЗВУКОВОЙ ИСТРЕБИТЕЛЬ МИГ-21Ф-13 SVERHZVUKOVOY ISTREBITEL MIG-21F-13

Реактивный сверхзвуковой самолет-истребитель МиГ-21 Ф-13: 1 — подвижный конус (центральное тело регулируемого воздухозаборника), 2 — штанга приемника воздушного давления, 3 — отсеки оборудования, 4 — катапультируемое кресло пилота, 5 — топливные баки, 6 — замок тормозного парашюта, 7 — контейнер тормозного парашюта, 8 — двигатель Р-11Ф-300, 9 — тормозные щитки, 10 — антенна радиолокационного прицела, 11 — канал воздухозаборника двигателя, 12 — аэродинамические гребни на крыле , 13 — противофлаттерные балансиры стабилизатора, 14 — ракеты “ воздух— воздух ” К-13, 15 — пушка, 16 — подвесной топливный бак, 17 — створки дополнительного забора воздуха, 18 — воздухозаборники для обдува двигателя, 19—закрылок, 20—цельноповоротное горизонтальное оперение. Supersonic Jet aircraft MiG-21 F-13: 1-rolling cone (central body adjustable air), 2-pole receiver air pressure, 3-separation equipment, 4-Ejection pilot’s seat, 5-Tanks, 6-lock brake parachute, 7-container braking parachute, 8-engine R-11F-300, 9-brake pads, 10-antenna radar sight, 11-channel air engine, 12-aerodynamic ridges on the wing, 13-protivoflatternye balances stabilizer, a 14-missiles “air-air” K-13, 15-gun, 16-hanging fuel tank, 17-leaf additional air fence, 18-Air airflow to the engine, 19-zakrylok, 20-tselnopovorotnoe horizontal of feathers.

F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15

F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15
Which aircraft was better? Well lets examine their strengths and weaknesses

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis 001120Period: Post-WWII

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The MiG-15 was extremely simple although advanced in concept. It had a better rate of climb, ceiling and high-altitude radius of turn than any Allied jet aircraft at the time. It came as a shock to the American pilots who first encountered it in combat over Korea.

Conceived in 1947, the design lacked a suitable engine until the British Government made a gift of an example of their latest turbojet, the Rolls-Royce Nene, to the Soviet Union. It was immediately stripped and copied and went into production for the new fighter and within eight months the prototype MiG-15 was flying, entering service in 1948.

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Retired MiG 17

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Battle of MiG 17 in Vietnam

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MiG-17 was widely used in a number of wars, the first of which began fighting in Egypt in the autumn of 1956 Air opponents MiG-17 F in the war were French fighter Dassault Mister IV and Hurricane. The Egyptian Air Force has only 12 aircraft MiG-17 F, as a result of this war played a much smaller role compared to the much larger number of MiG fighter aircraft fleet-15 bis. According to Egyptian figures, in the air battle over the airfield Kabrit three MiG aircraft F-17 fighter was shot three Mister IV, the Egyptian aircraft suffered no losses. Israel does not confirm these figures, pointing in turn, that the overall loss of the Egyptian Air Force ever fighting is a MiG-17 F, shot in the air battle. MiG-17 was used in the Arab-Israeli war in 1967 and in 1973 But already by the time the Six Day War in 1967 up VVS Egypt and Syria came third generation jet fighters: supersonic MiG-21 F, which, along with MiG-19 and the most widely used against Israeli fighter French production in an unsuccessful attempt to win Arab domination in the air. A number of aircraft MiG-17 F Egyptian Air Force, it was decided to refocus the implementation assault operations. To this end, they have been modified with the installation of weapons in the NAR podkrylevyh additional external pylons and bombs under the fuselage. Each podkrylevom rails at the site to establish four NARa “Sakr” fire 76 mm. Aircraft modification has been performed in Egypt, NARy built there.

Nevertheless MiGam-17 jet had to engage in battle with supersonic aircraft, but the United States, including F-105 Republic ‘Thunderchief’ and MacDonnell- Douglas F-4 Phantom. This happened in the skies over North Vietnam in 1960 years. MiG-17 F was the first Vietnamese Air Force jet fighter aircraft. Initially (in August 1964), Vietnam supplied MiG-17 F Chinese (J-5), and then the Soviet-made. The main task set before the Vietnamese fighter MiG-17 F, was to prevent the American attack planes to protected sites. Reached tactics of fighter attack aircraft included involvement in the air battle to force them to drop the load before the bombing to end. The discovery of MiG-17 aircraft was difficult because of their small size and the ability to operate with malopodgotovlennyh airfields. Usually MiG-17 patrolling at low altitude along the route known approach and the care of American combat aircraft and enemy detection recruited at the height forsazhe to intercept enemy aircraft. Many American> pilots argue that the fighter MiG-17 F to around weapons they feared much more than the MiG-21 aircraft PFM with missile weapons. In turn, many severovetnamskie pilots, commending agile, simple design and effectiveness gun weapons aircraft MiG-17, given to him in comparison with the next-generation fighter MiG-21 and MiG-PF 21 PFM.

Home matches fighters MiG-17 aircraft with American position battle, which took place in the skies of Vietnam on April 2, 1965 Then, a meeting took place in the air with a MiG-17 F-4. But first victory aircraft MiG-17 won the April 4, 1965 On that day, four MiG-17 F in the skies over Thanh Hoa intercepted eight attack aircraft F-105 American air force and opened fire around, shot down two of them. April 4 has been in Vietnam as Aviation Day. The first flight of American Navy (A-4 Skyhawk) was shot down MiG-17 on May 3, 1965 – this was the first case of shooting down American aircraft Vietnamese deck aircraft. The first MiG-17 F was lost in the air battle on June 17, 1965 On that day, two American aircraft F-4B, aircraft flying out of “Midway”, met in the air to the south of Hanoi, four MiG fighters and F-17 shot down two of them.

Attempts have been made to use aircraft MiG-17 and to strike targets. April 19, 1972 two MiG-17 aircraft coming from the private airfield near Donghoya, made a sudden attack of two American destroyers, gunships Vietnamese coastal artillery positions. This was the first air attack, which came seventh American naval fleet since the Second World War. They have committed this radius, had previously been modified by the Vietnamese: they were braking parachutes (for the use of aircraft from small sites) and podkrylevye BOMB aimed at suspending fire bombs and 250 kg. One American was hit by a bomb struck, but one of the aircraft was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile fired from the second esmintsa.

In Soviet data until 1970 in Southeast Asia, the ratio of losses in air battles with American aircraft was 2,3:1 in favor of MiG-17 with the loss of 59 MiG-17. In 1972, which resumed after a break of active hostilities, Vietnam lost 35 combat aircraft, excluding the MiG-21, but given MiG-17. In western same data, only American Air Force pilots (excluding deck Aviation Navy), only during the period from July 10, 1965 on February 14, 1968 MiG-61 shot down in 1917, and for all the war in Vietnam was shot 92 MiG-17 with the loss of 20 American planes in battles with the MiG-17, ie the loss ratio in air battles 4,6:1 for Americans. Knowing biases of Western military losses can be highly doubt the veracity of those figures.

A reception combat aircraft MiG-17 Americans helped careful reading of the particular flight and combat capabilities of fighter jets, two of which are in a position poletoprigodnom they received from Israel. In the hands of those Israeli aircraft hit on Aug. 12, 1968, when the Syrian Air Force pilots during a training flight off with the course and mistakenly landed at an Israeli airport (by some reports, the Syrians were misled Israelis file their uplink in Arabic). Initially, two MiG-17 aircraft were obletany Israeli Air Force pilots, then in 1969 with fighter MiG-21 F, they were sent to the United States in exchange for a commitment to the United States to Israel weapons trebovavsheesya after the Six Day “War. One of the MiG-17 aircraft used in military training centre Navy pilots (Top gun). Even after 20 years (in 1988), an acute shortage of hard currency forced the Polish government to allow the United States to sell more aircraft Lim-5 (MiG-17 F) and Lim-6m (MiG-17 PF) Polish production. These aircraft to be used in schools training pilots and they were used for this purpose, at least during one of the exercises in autumn 1988

Chinese J-5 participated in a number of incidents in Taiwan. According to Chinese sources, in 1958 J-5 aircraft in the Chinese air force shot down two Taiwanese fighter F-84G and six F-86, October 7, 1959 J-5 shooting down the Taiwanese Chinese Navy reconnaissance aircraft RB-47D, back to airfield after intelligence over northern China. MiG-17 is also used in a number of relatively small-scale conflicts. In March 1963 the aircraft MiG-17 air force independent Northern Yemen participated in the aerial battles with aircraft “Hunter” Air Force England, Ltd. in colonial South Yemen. In the 1967-1970 biennium. in time of civil war in Nigeria, government forces have used air force MiG-17 F to attack rebel forces Biafra (stremivsheysya out an independent republic). MiG-17 F participated in the fighting in the border dispute between Uganda and Tanzania in 1972, and in Mozambique, aircraft MiG-17 F (supplied from North Korea) used in the early 1980’s to suppress nationalist guerrilla forces. During the war in Afghanistan, MiG-17 and MiG-17 F government forces were attacked positions mujahidin in the mountains.

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A tribute to Soviet MiG fighters

A tribute to Soviet MiG fighters