During the Korean War, the North American F-86 Sabre was the only jet that could match the MiG-15 in performance. While the Sabre was technologically superior to its Soviet counterpart, the MiG-15 ...

It is reported that on April 28, 1950, the MiG-15 scored its first air-to-air victory against a ROCAF reconnaissance variant of a P-38 Lightning (an F-5).

Tht means each plane weighed a whopping 64,000 pounds. To lift such a mammoth jet off the ground, MiG-25s required two Tumansky R-15B-300s engines.

In the early days of the war, while the U.S. was in possession of an early F-86 variant, the MiG-15 held a distinct advantage—with superior maneuverability, acceleration, service ceiling, and ...