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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 ( Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) [ 1] is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL ...
The longest continuing United States classified military airplane program is the testing and evaluation of Foreign Aircraft Technology. During the Cold War, secret test flying of Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau (MiG) and other Soviet aircraft was an ongoing mission dating back to the acquisition of the first Soviet-built Yakovlev Yak-23 in 1953.
Last launch. March 1, 1968 (proposed) The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including aerial reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and as a space interceptor to sabotage enemy satellites. [ 1 ...
Colonel Tomb. The MIG-21 N. 4324 of the Vietnam People's Air Force. This fighter aircraft, flown by various pilots, was credited with 14 kills during the Vietnam War. Colonel Tomb, also Nguyen Toon (Nguyễn Tuân) or Colonel Toon was a mythical North Vietnam Air Force fighter ace loosely based on a North Vietnamese pilot from the 921st Fighter ...
Sally B (44-85784), an airworthy B-17 based in Europe, taking off in 2015. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II. Forty-five planes survive in complete form, [ 1][ a] including 38 in the United States with many preserved ...
North Korea has fighters and trainers in service. The Shenyang J-5 ( Chinese: 歼-5) ( NATO reporting name Fresco[ 2]) is a Chinese -built single-seat jet interceptor and fighter aircraft derived from the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17. [ 1] The J-5 was exported as the F-5[ 3] and was originally designated Dongfeng-101 (East Wind-101) and also ...
MiG I-7 - heavy interceptor fighter prototype developed from the I-3, 1957. MiG I-75 - swept-wing interceptor developed from the I-7, 1958; lost to the Sukhoi Su-9. Ye-8 - supersonic jet fighter aircraft prototype, 1962; planned replacement of the MiG-21. Ye-150 family - prototype interceptors in the 1950s.
They have also become known as "NATO reporting names". The ASCC became the Five Eyes Air Force Interoperability Council and no longer has responsibility for generating reporting names. NATO reporting name. Common name. Faceplate. Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2. Fagin.