Designed at the height of the Cold War, the MiG-17 (Mikoyan-Gurevich) was one of the most iconic fighters of Soviet military aviation. Originally created to replace the MiG-15, which had already shown ...

Equipped with the VK-1F, the MiG‑17 was the first Soviet fighter with an afterburner. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, MiG-17s flooded into the United States. Their significance in the ...

Summary and Key Points: The MiG-17 Fresco, a Soviet-designed fighter jet, made its maiden flight in January 1950 and was introduced in October 1952, just missing out on combat in the Korean War.

From July 1965, the Soviet government established a team of military experts and sent them to assist the Vietnam People's ...

Russian aviation historian and Ukrainian native ... The MiG-15 was quickly superseded by the MiG-17, which incorporated a wish list of improvements, mostly by cloning the technology found in ...

The American propeller-driven planes had tighter turning radii to outmaneuver the faster but less nimble Soviet-produced birds ... striking one MiG-17, which began trailing smoke and crashed ...

Soviet aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan, one of the founders of the Mikoyan military aircraft design bureau later transformed into Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, was born on August 5, 1905.

The Soviet MiG-15bis and the American F-86 Sabre pushed aviation technology to its limits during the Korean War. When they met in dogfights over the Yalu River, in an area nicknamed MiG Alley ...

A Mig-17 (Mikoyan-Gurevich), was designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union to replace the MiG-15. This information comes from the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The first MiG ...