In addition to the Rocketdyne engine, 52-4608 (which would carry the designation F-86F (R) before being redesignated as the JF-86F), was fitted with two externally mounted 200 gallon tanks ...

When the F-86F variant was introduced, however, in 1953, the playing fields were finally leveled. In fact, the new F-86 was arguably superior to the MiG-15.

This late model F-86F variant was a few months too late to see service in Korea. But you can't say it didn't squeeze every ounce of usefulness out of it like an empty toothpaste tube.

The North American F-86F Sabre was the most capable western fighter of the early- to mid-1950s. This swept wing, single engine jet was the most important western aircraft of the Korean War and ...

The F-86 Sabre's maximum speed only reached 685 mph, not even faster than the speed of sound, which it could only break if it were in a dive. Its typical cruising speed was 550 mph.

Not until the F-86F was introduced, in 1953, were the Americans able to reciprocate the abilities of the MiG-15. Some pilots even claimed that the F-variant was marginally superior to the MiG.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from DCS World: F-86F Sabre Hunters Over the Yalu Campaign It's early 1953. After completing several tours in WWII, you're yet again putting your neck on the ...

The U.S. Air Force was able to determine precisely how the Soviet-built MiG-15 compared with its own premier fighter, the North American F-86 Sabre, because on September 21, 1953, two months after ...

Members of the F-86 Sabre Association met recently on the flightline at Nellis Air Force Base, NV, to have one last reunion before disbanding after 35 years.

The F-86D, however, was an all-weather interceptor with a radar nose, and was armed with rockets instead of machine guns. The F-86K was a D-model with 20-mm machine guns replacing the rockets. In ...

At the 2002 Nellis Air Show near Las Vegas, a Sabre heads up an A team in a USAF Heritage Flight: (from left) P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt, F-15 Eagle, P-38 Lightning, and TF-51. Erik ...

When the F-86F variant was introduced, however, in 1953, the playing fields were finally leveled. In fact, the new F-86 was arguably superior to the MiG-15.