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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.
The first jet fighter to enter service was the MiG-15, entering service on 15 May 1955, followed by the MiG-17. Some of the MiG-15s were Soviet fighters used and then withdrawn from the North Korean Air Force. The MiG-19 (NATO code "Farmer") became the backbone of the Albanian Air Force. 12 MiG-19PM were delivered by the USSR in October 1959 ...
MiG-15bis and UTI aircraft lined up at Kucova Air Base. The first jet fighter planes equipped by the Albanian Air Force were the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. The Soviet Union provided the MiG-15bis, an improved version of the basic MiG-15 fighter plane that had gained fame in the Korean War. Deliveries began on January 31, 1955.
Later additions included Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 and MiG-19 fighters and ... ordered and purchased in 2005 and consequently ... the possible sale of eight F-16 ...
Croatian MiG-21s and US Navy F-14 over Adriatic Sea. Although the MiG-21 was perceived as an outdated fighter by the Croatian Air Force even in the late 1990s, budget constraints have been continuously deferring any final decision on the acquisition of a new fighter type. As Croatia was no longer facing any military threat, serious talks were ...
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.
A United States Navy Sikorsky HH-60H Seahawk crashed into the Pacific Ocean 16 miles (26 km) SW of San Diego, California. The aircraft was on a routine training flight and returning to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz when the accident occurred off of Point Loma, California, killing all 5 members of its crew.
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.