Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armaments. They can also stop them if they want to." At the same time a story was noised about Belgrade that six high Yugoslav air force officers, on their way to Moscow to attend a Soviet air force celebration, would negotiate with Russia for the right to manufacture MIG aircraft in Yugoslavia...
...increased production of the F101 and F-104 without increased appropriations, the Air Force plans to cut production of the F-84 and F-86 (the famous Sabre jet that outshot the MIG 14-1 over Korea...
...best qualitative yardstick so far available was the Korean War. Initially we were rudely surprised by the Soviet MIG-15, which, at altitudes above 28,000 to 30,000 feet, had flying characteristics superior to our aircraft. But, like the Jap Zero of World War II, it was not a better fighting machine. The "kill" statistics, even if liberally discounted, were overwhelming in our favor. Greater pilot skill accounted for much of this but not all of it. We have other yardsticks. We,know, as General Alfred M. Gruenther, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has stated, that...
...truce by moving in forbidden troops and supplies, the U.S. likes to keep an aerial watch on the enemy. The Chinese Communists do not like to have intruders flying over the northern half of the Yellow Sea, in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Dairen or the big MIG base at Antung, but the U.S. insists on its right to fly over international waters...
...Reds have amassed alarming new strength in North Korea. According to U.S. intelligence, the Communists have built fortifications, increased their artillery firepower 30%, laid out 40 airfields, and moved in more than 400 aircraft, including at least 150 MIG-15 jets -all in violation of the armistice terms. Truce inspection, instead of enforcing the armistice, had simply screened the steady Red buildup...