In December 1950, the first F-86 Sabre unit arrived to Korean theater. It was the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing and it ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1950s, epic battles unfolded in the skies over North Korea as American and Russian fighters faced off in history's first jet war. This program explores the Korean War's aerial tactics, ...

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 ...

Why did the U.S. Sabre jet win so many victories (13 to 1) over the MIG-15? Many U.S. fighter pilots insisted the MIGs were so good that only U.S. pilot superiority kept them from sweeping the Sabre ...

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 ...

The Cold War set the stage for aerial combat between iconic jet-powered fighter aircraft. By the early 1950s, the world's superpowers' first generation of jet fighters were ready for battle. They just ...