Showing posts with label USSR 1950-1959. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USSR 1950-1959. Show all posts
Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Supermarine Spitfire. European Users, part eighteen. Soviet Spitfires.

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  Since June 1941, when Germany invaded the USSR and the Soviets joined the Allies, the USSR showed interest in acquiring the Spitfire. In f...
Thursday, 22 September 2022

Focke-Wulf Fw.200 Condor. Part Three. Even more foreign Users

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  The Focke-Wulf Fw.200 Condor was a German four-engined monoplane designed and manufactured by Focke-Wulf which was initially conceived as ...
Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich SM-12

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich SM-12 was the internal denomination that Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB (Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau) gave to a series of four...
Saturday, 12 September 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19. Soviet experiments and prototypes

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During its career with the VVS (Soviet Air Force), the MiG-19 was used as a testbed for various projects and prototypes. Some of them ended ...
Thursday, 10 September 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19P & PM, Soviet users

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19P was a version equipped with an RP-1 Izumrud radar placed inside a radome in the nose. It's armed with two 2...
Saturday, 5 September 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19, various Soviet experimental variants

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 was the first Soviet (and world's) supersonic fighter. As expected, many experimental versions were create...
Saturday, 4 July 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19, part one, MiG-19 sans suffixe

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In 1950 the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau, began working on a new fighter which would have a greater range than both the MiG-15 and the M...
Thursday, 2 July 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-370

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In 1953, Mikoyan OKB completed a design of a single-engined tactical fighter which used a wing similar to that of the twin-engined SM-9, w...
Tuesday, 30 June 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-360

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In late 1950 the Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB managed to successfully adapt the fuselage of a MiG-17 to a pair of Mikulin AM-5 turbojet engines, a...
Saturday, 1 February 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17SN

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The MiG-17SN has been one of the most interesting projects carried out by the MiG OKB. The entire project was based on the theory that the...
Saturday, 18 January 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17PFU

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The MiG-17PFU (NATO codename 'Fresco-E') became the first Soviet interceptor fighter equipped only with air-to-air missiles. This ...
Tuesday, 7 January 2020

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17PF, part two, European Users

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17PF is a high subsonic fighter produced in the USSR from 1954 until 1956, and until 1960 in Poland. It was a reg...
Saturday, 17 August 2019

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, part five, Romanian and Soviet users

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F was also used by every Warsaw Pact country member. Among them Romania and the USSR, as expected. Romania: ...
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Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, part two, European users

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft made mainly in the USSR from 1952 and operated by many world's air for...
Thursday, 4 July 2019

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, part one, the prototypes

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When the MiG-15bis was showing the benefits of the swept wing in combat over Korea, the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau was already plannin...
Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis, other users

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Preliminary note: This is a special post as we realized that we had forgot to post one set of MiG-15bis drawings. The MiG-15bis was the m...
Saturday, 16 February 2019

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI, part one

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI was the two-seat trainer variant of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis. It has been regarded as one of the most...
Thursday, 14 February 2019

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis, Prototypes and rare versions

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In this post we're covering many sub-variants, prototypes and dedicated versions of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis (excluding the MiG-...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, Various European users

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 was used by every European member of the Warsaw Pact. As both Poland and Czechoslovakia manufactured them sepa...