When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for ...

The Cold War set the stage for aerial combat between iconic jet-powered fighter aircraft. By the early 1950s, the world's superpowers' first generation of jet fighters were ready for battle. They just ...

When Soviet pilots secretly entered the Korean War, the MiG-15 met the F-86 Sabre in the first large-scale jet-on-jet combat in history. Both aircraft borrowed lessons from Nazi Germany’s jet research ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Dildy and Thompson calculate 224 Sabres lost, of which about a hundred were the result of aerial combat. They estimate that 566 MiG-15s were destroyed ...

Meet the MiG-29K: Mikoyan Gurevich is one of the premier aircraft designers of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Its storied history includes some impressive aircraft such as the MiG-15, one of the ...

Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World War II or patrolling the airspace in today’s contested zones, these machines ...