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

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 ...

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 Sabre was the first swept wing airplane in the Air Force’s inventory. When the Korean War broke out, the Russian-built MiG-15 was the weapon of choice in the air for the Chinese and the North ...

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, ...

Coming out of WWII, America’s Air Force was the undisputed champ of the skies. That all changed during the Korean War when Soviet forces unveiled the MiG-15, a sprightly swept-wing interceptor that ...

On the Web site of the Korean War National Museum, browse photographs of the conflict and find resources for historical research. Find fact sheets and photographs of the F-86 Sabre, MiG-15, and other ...