MiG-15 Fagot

摘要

The MiG-15, flown by Soviet pilots, shocked UN forces when it entered combat in the Korean War in November 1950. Superior to all Allied fighters then in the theater, it was a menace to B-29 bomber flights and other types of air operations. The airplane, which was relatively unsophisticated and stoutly built, was designed to be a bomber-interceptor. However, it was a standard fighter of the Soviet Union and many other countries for a decade. The MiG-15 was developed by the Soviet design bureau of Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Its engines had a Western flavor; indeed, Britain's Labor government sold the Soviet Union examples of the Rolls Royce Mene engine, which Soviet technicians then reverse-engineered into the MiG-15's Klimov RD-45 power plant.