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 ...

It’s November 18th, 1952, and Lt. Elmer Royce Williams is with a flight of four US Navy’s F9F Panthers on a bombing mission ...

November 1950 became the birth of the legendary “MiG Alley” after Soviet built MiG-15 jet fighters exploded into combat ...

I know, the way MiGs are behaving in the skies over and bordering Ukraine these days might make this topic a sensitive pill to swallow. But you have to admit, given the fighter plane family's history ...

In November of 1950, only five months into the Korean War, the Soviets claimed air superiority with their MiG-15s. Thanks to the aircraft's high operating ceiling, speed, and design for intercepting ...

Pity the poor MiG-19 “Farmer.” Here in the (virtual) pages as well as myriads of other sources on military aviation history, plenty has been written about other early Cold War MiG (Mikoyan-Gurevich) ...