Coming out of WWII, America’s Air Force was the undisputed champ of the skies. That all changed during the Korean War when Soviet forces unveiled the MiG-15, a sprightly swept-wing interceptor that ...

Private Aircraft Photographed in Western U.S. by Tyler Hernandez, Shows Its Age. Ace aviation photographer Tyler Hernandez of Zone 5 Photography made a rare and exotic catch in one of the most ...

I know, the way MiGs are behaving in the skies over and bordering Ukraine these days might make this topic a sensitive pill to swallow. But you have to admit, given the fighter plane family's history ...

Key Point: America wanted its hands on the Soviet-built MiG-15. So what is a capitalist superpower to do but offer a lot of cold, hard, cash? Korea, 1953. The United States’ latest fighter jet, the ...

In December 1950, the first F-86 Sabre unit arrived to Korean theater. It was the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing and it ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Sixty years ago, Lt. No Kum-Sok spent the night floating on a barge on a river, surrounded by other North Korean Air Force pilots happy to have survived the Korean War. But Kum-Sok, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Following a brief stint in the latter period of the Chinese Civil War, the MiG-15 made an explosive entrance in the Korean War. The Soviet fighter proved vastly ...

A snapshot from the Cold War: Polish used Mig-15s to clear snow off railroad tracks 50 years ago. In the 1960s, PKP, the Polish State Railways, used Polish Air Force MiG-15s to clear snow off of ...

In the year 2025, several hundred of the iconic MiG-21 remain in service. Exact numbers are difficult to pin down but that number is about to shrink again as India prepares to retire its last examples ...