MiG 17
The purest out there will say: But Matt, the MiG 17 never made it to Korea. Not true! There is a fair amount of evidence that Ivan Product tested it late in the war. While it was an improvement over the MiG 15, it wasn't a big improvement! Click here for larger image
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Gloster Meteor
First flown in WWII the G-M was hopelessly out dated by the 1950s. It rarely came out the winner when it went up against MiGs. But in the ground support role, with 6 20MM cannons it made one heck of a can opener! Click here for larger image
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MiG 15
The MiG 15 came as one heck of a surprise! Once they showed up the Allies lost air supremacy. . . for a while. Click here for larger image
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F-82
Although the Twin Mustang was about 100MPH slower then the MiGs it faced, it had two advantages. It could loiter for hours and it had a very good air search radar. Hey what did you think the other pilot did for a living!? Click here for larger image
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F-86 Saber
Once the F-86 arrived in Korea, Ivan once again lost control of the air. The problem was that both the F-86 and the MiG-15 were so closely matched that only the quality of the pilots made the difference. Click here for larger image
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F-80
In the early days of the war the Shooting Star more or less cleared the skies of all of the Commie fighters. Unfortunately Ivan had a little surprise for us. When the first MiGs showed up she instantly went obsolete. Strangely enough, the F-80 didn't die out. It stayed in service well into the 1990s as a trainer! Click here for larger image
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