Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months, U.N. commanders in Korea tried by various devices and ruses to lay hands on one of the enemy's Russian-built MIG-15 fighters. For months, the Reds foiled them. In London last week the British Admiralty proudly told how a splendid specimen of the sleek MIG was grabbed at last for U.N. scrutiny...
...MIG-15 (Mikoyan), single-jet fighter. Speed, 680 m.p.h.; rate of climb, 7-8,000 ft. a min.; ceiling, 42,000 ft.; range, unknown; armament, one 32-mm., two 23-mm. cannon. Currently Russia's No. 1 day fighter...
...Lavochkin), long-range stablemate of the MIG-15. Speed, 625-650 m.p.h.; rate of climb, 6,600 ft. a min.; ceiling, 45,000 ft.; range, about 2,000 miles; armament, two 20-, 32-, or 37-mm. cannon. Late models have rocket boosts in the tail for extra speed and night fighter's radar in the nose...
...Yakovlev). Latest Red swept-wing interceptor, designed as the successor to the MIG-15 and LA-17. No details on performance...
Artem I. Mikoyan, 52, Armenian-born brother of top Politburocrat Anastas I. Mikoyan and designer of Russia's famed MIG-15, which won him the 1947 Stalin Prize. Hot-tempered, limelight-hogging, he teamed up with Structural Specialist Mikhail Gurevich to produce World War II's MIG1 and MIG3 (the Russian Spitfire), after the war turned out a jet-propelled MIG-15, the first Russian jet to go into quantity production. He has twice been accused of using "capitalist tactics" to boost production of his own planes over others...