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 ...

In one of aviation’s most improbable victories, a Royal Navy Sea Fury - a piston-engine fighter - shot down a Soviet-built MiG-15 jet during the Korean War, defying the limits of speed and technology.