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 1, 1950, Soviet-flown MiG-15s shot down American P-51s over Korea, ending U.S. air dominance overnight. Their swept-wing design stunned the West and forced the U.S. to rush its new F-86 Sabres into ...

VERO BEACH — By day, Tony Remudo flies Airbus A320s for American Airlines. During his downtime, he flies one of the iconic planes of the Soviet Union — the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17. His silver-clad ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Dildy and Thompson calculate 224 Sabres lost, of which about a hundred were the result of aerial combat. They estimate that 566 MiG-15s were destroyed ...

Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World War II or patrolling the airspace in today’s contested zones, these machines ...

Algeria and Egypt dominate the North African region in terms of air power The MiG-29 Fulcrum is the most widely used MiG by both of the countries The MiG-29 can hit speeds over Mach 2.25 or 1,500 mph ...

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