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...field radio, a young airman in a grey-green general's uniform adjusted his earphones. "Guards Lieut. General V. Stalin is now at the command post," the loudspeaker announced. "The military part of the display now starts." Suddenly, two silvery, swept-wing MIG-15 jets hurtled across the field headed directly at each other, skidded narrowly past, shot away close to the speed of sound. Five new types of swept-wing jet fighters flashed past, outracing the banshee wail of their engines. Column after column of MIG-15s paraded over the crowd, followed by 100 four-engine Russian copies...
...interceptors - a .50-cal. machine gun (developed in 1918) and a 20-mm. cannon (developed during the '30s)-cannot shoot down an enemy jet bomber with any efficiency. In Korea, one F-86 pilot had to spray 1,400 rounds of .50-cal. fire at a Russian MIG-15 fighter before it went down...
...Russians have already started to bridge this gap, while (presumably) waiting for accurate rockets. In Korea, one armament man pointed out, 40 heavily escorted U.S. B-29s were suddenly jumped by 80 Russian MIG-15 fighters. The MIGs knifed through the formations, shot down six of the bombers in the space of a few minutes. The MIG-15's armament: two 23-mm., one 37-mm. cannon...
This week, as the newly appointed commander of the U.S. Air Force's Fourth (Sabre jet) Fighter Interceptor Group, Gabby, now a full colonel, got a chance to try his formula on Communist MIGs in Korea. Some 15 MIG-15 jets had pounced on a mass flight of U.S. prop-driven Mustangs just north of Pyongyang when Gabreski and his Sabres roared to the rescue. In short order Gabby knocked out one MIG-his first kill in Korea. His teammates shot down two more, damaged a third and sent the others streaking home to Manchuria...
Paul Leach, 60, of the Chicago Daily News, sparks the coverage for the four Knight newspapers (Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon Journal, Chicago Daily News, Miami Herald), and recently caught the Air Force contradicting itself on the relative merits of the Russian MIG and the American...