Here’s What You Need To Remember: Russian, Chinese and North Korean MiG pilots discovered the Sabre was razor-sharp. It couldn’t fly as high, climb as fast or maneuver as agilely as its Soviet-made ...
Sabre was an emblem of an age when pilot skill took priority, and the aircraft he flew a marriage of engineering talent and ...
Key Point: In the end, the Sabre vs. MiG duel made for great newsprint. But much like the Korean War, it ultimately counted for little. The Korean War was the first of the post-1945 small wars, those ...
The MiG-15 and F-86 Sabre clashed in MiG Alley in the first great jet-versus-jet war. Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean ...
F-86 pilot and Museum docent Lt. Gen. William Earl Brown describes flying the F-86 Sabre against the MiG-15 in the Korean War. MiG-15 pilot Ken Rowe, who escaped with a MiG-15 and delivered it to the ...
Why did the U.S. Sabre jet win so many victories (13 to 1) over the MIG-15? Many U.S. fighter pilots insisted the MIGs were so good that only U.S. pilot superiority kept them from sweeping the Sabre ...
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 ...
The Sabre was the first swept wing airplane in the Air Force’s inventory. When the Korean War broke out, the Russian-built MiG-15 was the weapon of choice in the air for the Chinese and the North ...
In the early 1950s, epic battles unfolded in the skies over North Korea as American and Russian fighters faced off in history's first jet war. This program explores the Korean War's aerial tactics, ...
On the Web site of the Korean War National Museum, browse photographs of the conflict and find resources for historical research. Find fact sheets and photographs of the F-86 Sabre, MiG-15, and other ...
The two fastest jet fighters in Korea—the U.S. F-86 Sabre and Russia’s MIG-15 —were hotting up the aerial combat phase of the air war. Near Sinuiju, on the Yalu River, last week there were two ...