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

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 ...

On December 17, 1950, the first known aerial combat between swept-wing jet fighters took place in the skies over Korea. The Russian-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 had been recently introduced and its ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Russian, Chinese and North Korean MiG pilots discovered the Sabre was razor-sharp. It couldn’t fly as high, climb as fast or maneuver as agilely as its Soviet-made ...

F-86 pilot and Museum docent Lt. Gen. William Earl Brown describes flying the F-86 Sabre against the MiG-15 in the Korean War. MiG-15 pilot Ken Rowe, who escaped with a MiG-15 and delivered it to the ...

Key Point: In the end, the Sabre vs. MiG duel made for great newsprint. But much like the Korean War, it ultimately counted for little. The Korean War was the first of the post-1945 small wars, those ...

The Soviet MiG-15bis and the American F-86 Sabre pushed aviation technology to its limits during the Korean War. When they met in dogfights over the Yalu River, in an area nicknamed MiG Alley, both ...

Image Credit: U.S. Air Force/Larry E. Reid Jr. - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. From the piston-driven legends of World War II to the stealth platforms of the 21st century, American fighter jets have ...