Interceptor/Co'In/fighters/ground attack aircraft

USA

 * 1) North American F-86F-2 Sabre
 * 2) North American F-100 Super Sabre
 * 3) North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
 * 4) North American FJ-4 Fury
 * 5) North American F-107
 * 6) General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
 * 7) General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
 * 8) Grumman F-14 Tomcat
 * 9) Grumman OV-1 Mohawk
 * 10) Grumman X-29
 * 11) Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II
 * 12) Vought F-8 Crusader
 * 13) Vought F7U Cutlass
 * 14) Convair F-106A Delta Dart
 * 15) Northrop F-5
 * 16) Northrop F-20 Tigershark
 * 17) Northrop YF-17
 * 18) Northrop F-89 Scorpion
 * 19) Northrop T-38 Talon
 * 20) Republic F-84F Thunderstreak
 * 21) Republic F-105 Thunderchief
 * 22) Douglas_A-3_Skywarrior
 * 23) Douglas F3D Skyknight
 * 24) Douglas F4D Skyray
 * 25) McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
 * 26) McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
 * 27) McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
 * 28) McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
 * 29) McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
 * 30) Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
 * 31) Lockheed F-94 Starfire
 * 32) Rockwell XFV-12
 * 33) McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
 * 34) Republic F-84 Thunderjet
 * 35) Republic XF-84H
 * 36) Grumman F9F-8P Cougars
 * 37) LTV A-7 Corsair II

Join UK/W.Germany

 * 1) Hawker Siddeley XV-6A Kestrel
 * 2) Hawker Siddeley P.1127/Kestrel

India

 * 1) HAL HF-24 Marut
 * 2) HAL Kiran

Joint Italy/Brazil

 * 1) AMX Fighter Bomber

Argentina

 * 1) FMA IA 58 Pucará
 * 2) FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II
 * 3) FMA IA 63 Pampa

Italy

 * 1) Fiat G.91
 * 2) Aermacchi MB-326
 * 3) Aermacchi MB-339

Canada

 * 1) Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
 * 2) TSR-2
 * 3) Canadair Sabre
 * 4) Canadair T-33.

Yugoslavia

 * 1) Soko J-22 Orao
 * 2) Soko J-20 Kraguj
 * 3) Soko G-2 Galeb

Czechoslovakia

 * 1) Aero L-29 Delfín

USSR

 * 1) Yakovlev Yak-28
 * 2) Yakovlev Yak-38
 * 3) Yakovlev Yak-41
 * 4) Sukhoi Su-7
 * 5) Sukhoi Su-15
 * 6) Sukhoi Su-17
 * 7) Sukhoi Su-27
 * 8) Sukhoi Su-30
 * 9) Sukhoi Su-33
 * 10) Sukhoi Su-35
 * 11) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9
 * 12) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
 * 13) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
 * 14) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19
 * 15) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
 * 16) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
 * 17) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
 * 18) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29
 * 19) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31
 * 20) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105

S. Africa

 * 1) Atlas Cheetah

China

 * 1) Chengdu J-9
 * 2) Shenyang J-8
 * 3) Shenyang F-5

Joint UK/Germany/Italy

 * 1) Panavia Tornado

France

 * 1) Dassault Mirage F1
 * 2) Dassault Mirage 5
 * 3) Fouga CM.170 Magister
 * 4) Fouga CM.175 Zéphyr
 * 5) Dassault Super Mystère
 * 6) Dassault Étendard IV
 * 7) Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris

UK

 * 1) Blackburn Buccaneer
 * 2) Hawker Siddeley Harrier
 * 3) English Electric Lightning
 * 4) BAE Hawk T1 trainer
 * 5) BAC Jet Provost
 * 6) Gloster Javelin
 * 7) Hawker Hunter
 * 8) Short SC.1
 * 9) Folland Gnat

Sweden

 * 1) Saab 37 Viggen
 * 2) Saab JAS 39 Gripen
 * 3) Saab 29 Tunnan

Israel

 * 1) IAI Kfir
 * 2) IAI Nesher

Taiwan

 * 1) AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo

Japan

 * 1) Mitsubishi F-1
 * 2) Mitsubishi F-15J/DJ Eagle
 * 3) Fuji T-1

Egypt

 * 1) Helwan HA-300

W. Germany

 * 1) EWR VJ 101

Famous WW2 veterans who also fought in the early Cold War

 * 1) North American P-51 Mustang
 * 2) Lockheed P-38 Lightning
 * 3) Messerschmitt Bf 109
 * 4) Yakovlev Yak-1
 * 5) IAR 80
 * 6) Polikarpov I-16
 * 7) Supermarine Spitfire
 * 8) Hawker Hurricane
 * 9) Mitsubishi A6M Zero
 * 10) Dewoitine D.520
 * 11) Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe
 * 12) Gloucester Meteor
 * 13) Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
 * 14) Curtiss P-36 Hawk

Fighter aces


A flying 'ace is a military aviator who has been credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories (kills) required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied over time and location, but is usually considered amongst pilots to be 5 or more. The few aces among combat aviators have historically accounted for the majority of air-to-air victories in military history. Nazi Germany's Erich Hartmann is the ace of aces, the highest scoring ace of all time with a total of 352 confirmed victories. It is to be noted that many of Erich Hartmann victims (I hear 100 or so) were shity early era and sometimes even bi-plane Soviet fighters that could have been shot down with a Nazi pea-shooter in 1941!

The event
"MiG Alley" is the name given by United Nations pilots to the northwestern portion of North Korea, where the Yalu River empties into the Yellow Sea in the 1950–1953 Korean War.

During the Korean War, it was the site of numerous dogfights between UN fighter pilots and their opponents from North Korea (including some unofficially crewed by Soviet airmen) and the People's Republic of China. It was an attempt to reduce the effectiveness of UN air-power, guard the PRC\DPRK border and provide air cover for Chinese operations in the north of N. Korea.

Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 were the aircraft used during most of the conflict, and the area's nickname was derived from them. It was the site of the first large-scale jet-vs-jet air battles, with the North American F-86 Sabre.

The Americans even mooted bombing Vladivostock Airport and the near by airbases as a way of stopping the unoffical Soviet participation in MiG Alley.

Korean War pilot aces
The top aces were Russian. Nikolay Sutyagin claimed 21 kills, including nine F-86s, one F-84 and one Gloster Meteor (operated by No. 77 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force) in less than seven months. His first kill was the F-86A of Robert H. Laier on 19 June 1951 (listed by the Americans as missing in action), and his last was on 11 January 1952, when he shot down and killed Thiel M. Reeves, who was flying an F-86E (Reeves is also listed as MIA). Other famous Soviet aces include Yevgeni G. Pepelyayev, who was credited with 19 kills, and Lev Kirilovich Shchukin, who was credited with 17 kills, despite being shot down twice himself.

The top UN ace of the war, Capt. Joseph C. McConnell, claimed 16 MiGs, including three on one day. His story featured in a film called The McConnell Story, starring Alan Ladd and June Allyson. The second-highest-scoring UN ace, Maj. James Jabara, was the first UN jet-vs.-jet ace. Another ace, Frederick C. "Boots" Blesse, claimed nine MiG-15s in his F-86 Sabre and later wrote No Guts, No Glory, a manual of air fighter combat that is still studied today. James P. Hagerstrom claimed 8.5 kills.

George Andrew Davis, Jr. became one of the first members of the new U.S. Air Force to receive the US Medal of Honor after being killed while leading his section of two F-86s against 12 MiG-15s when he was trying to shoot them all down.

The MiG Alley video game
Many games were spawned in honour of this conflict. MiG Alley is one of many combat flight simulator games developed by Rowan Software and published by Empire Interactive in 1999. It is a historical simulation which re-enacts the combat events.

Also see

 * 1) Aircraft
 * 2) Helicopters
 * 3) Bombers
 * 4) Noteworthy Air bases
 * 5) Radar
 * 6) Radome
 * 7) Head-up display unit
 * 8) Look-down/shoot-down radar
 * 9) HOTAS cockpit system
 * 10) War technology
 * 11) Blue Vixen Radar
 * 12) Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine

Links

 * http://www.history.com/videos/f-8-crusader-pilot-outmaneuvers-mig-17-fighters
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighter_aircraft
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighter-bomber
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interceptor_aircraft