Mikoyan i Gurevich MiG-15 UTI Midget at the Evergreen Aviation Museum

Photo by Cliff West

The Soviet Union’s MiG-15 was one of the first jet fighters, making its debut in 1949. The MiG-15 used copies of a British Rolls Royce engine and was designed using captured German engineering. It was first used in combat during the Korean War. More than 12,000 MiG-15s were built for the Soviet Union and its allies.

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