Mikoyan Gurevich Low Poly Single Seat, no cockpit detailing

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-15; USAF/DoD designation: Type 14; NATO reporting name: Fagot) is a jet fighter aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich for the Soviet Union. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful jet fighters to incorporate swept wings to achieve high transonic speeds. In combat over Korea, it outclassed straight-winged jet day fighters, which were largely relegated to ground-attack roles, and was quickly countered by the similar American swept-wing North American F-86 Sabre. The MiG-15 is often mentioned, along with the F-86 Sabre, as the best fighter aircraft of the Korean War.

The MiG-15 is believed to have been one of the most produced jet aircraft; in excess of 13,000 were manufactured.[2] Licensed foreign production may have raised the production total to almost 18,000.[citation needed] The MiG-15 remains in service with the Korean People's Army Air Force as an advanced trainer.

The MiG-15 was widely exported, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) receiving MiG-15bis models in 1950. Its baptism of fire occurred during the last phases (1946–49) of the Chinese Civil War. During the first months of 1950, the aviation of Nationalist China attacked from Taiwan the communist position in continental China, especially Shanghai. Mao Zedong requested the military assistance of the USSR, and the 50th IAD (Истребительная Авиадивизия, ИАД; Istrebitelnaya Aviadiviziya; Fighter Aviation Division) equipped with the MiG-15bis was deployed in the southern part of the PRC. On 28 April 1950, Captain Kalinikov shot down a P-38 of the Kuomintang, scoring the first aerial victory of the MiG-15. Another followed on 11 May, when Captain Ilya Ivanovich Schinkarenko downed the B-24 Liberator of Li Chao Hua, commander of the 8th Air Group of the nationalist Air Force.[citation needed]

Chinese MiG-15s took part in the first jet-versus-jet dogfights during the Korean War. The swept-wing MiG-15 quickly proved superior to the first-generation, straight-wing jets of western air forces such as the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and the British Gloster Meteor, as well as piston-engined P-51 Mustangs and Vought F4U Corsairs with the MiG-15 of First Lieutenant Semyon Fyodorovich Khominich scoring the first jet-vs-jet victory in history when he bagged the F-80C of Frank Van Sickle, who died in the encounter (the USAF credits the loss to North Korean flak).[14][unreliable source?] Only the F-86 Sabre was a match for the MiG.

I-310Prototype.MiG-15First production version.MiG-15PSingle-seat all-weather interceptor version of the MiG-15bis.MiG-15SBSingle-seat fighter bomber version.MiG-15SP-5Two-seat all-weather interceptor version of the MiG-15UTI.MiG-15TTarget-towing version.MiG-15bisImproved single-seat fighter version.MiG-15bisRSingle-seat reconnaissance version.MiG-15bisSSingle-seat escort fighter version.MiG-15bisTSingle-seat target-towing version.MiG-15UTITwo-seat dual-control jet trainer.