Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6. The MiG-17 is still being used by the North Korean air force in the present day and has seen combat in the Middle East and Asia. The MiG-17 was an advanced modification of the MiG-15 aircraft produced by the Soviet Union during the Korean War.
Mil Mi-8. The Mil Mi-17 ( NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet-designed Russian military helicopter family introduced in 1975 (Mi-8M), continuing in production as of 2021 at two factories, in Kazan and Ulan-Ude. It is known as the Mi-8M series in Russian service. The helicopter is mostly used as a medium twin-turbine transport helicopter, as ...
The Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS ( Russian: Д альний и стребитель с опровождения / Dalnij Istrebitel' Soprovozhdenya – "long-range escort fighter") was a prototype Soviet heavy fighter of World War II, envisioned to serve primarily in the escort fighter role. The service designation MiG-5 was reserved for the production ...
The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft.Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as the United States' first swept-wing fighter that could counter the swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 in high-speed dogfights in the skies of the Korean War (1950–1953), fighting some of the earliest jet-to-jet battles in history.
The first two blocks of JF-17 is powered by a single Russian RD-93 turbofan engine, which is a variant of the Klimov RD-33 engine used on the MiG-29 fighter. The engine gives more thrust and significantly lower specific fuel consumption than turbojet engines fitted to older combat aircraft being replaced by the JF-17. The advantages of using a ...
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.
The MFI-15 Safari and MFI-17 Supporter were created from Saab's adaptation of the MFI-9 Junior for basic training for civil and military operators. In 1968 Saab began work on its MFI-15, based on the MFI-9 but with some design changes. Foremost of the changes in the Saab built MFI-15 prototype was the 120 kW (160shp) Lycoming IO-320 piston ...
1954–1968. Number built. 2,172 (excluding production in Czechoslovakia and China) Developed from. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17. Variants. Shenyang J-6. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 ( Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-19; NATO reporting name: Farmer) is a Soviet second generation, single-seat, twinjet fighter aircraft. It was the first ...