Description
Product ID: | 9781780963198 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | IN |
Series: | Duel |
Title: | F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15 |
Subtitle: | Korea 1950–53 |
Authors: | Author: Douglas C. Dildy, Wiek Luijken, Jim Laurier, Warren Thompson |
Page Count: | 80 |
Subjects: | History, History, Military history, Warfare and defence, Air forces and warfare, Military vehicles, Military history, Warfare & defence, Air forces & warfare, Military aircraft |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Provides technical descriptions of the two types and their improved variants, complete with a fighter pilot's assessment of these aircraft, also chronicles the entire scope of their aerial duel in MiG Alley by employing the recollections of the surviving combatants - including Russian, Chinese, and North Korean pilots - who participated. As the routed North Korean People''s Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People''s Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive in the last months of 1950, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN air supremacy over both the battlefields and the logistics channels from China into North Korea. Reluctantly, Josef Stalin agreed to provide the requisite air cover, introducing the superior swept-wing MiG-15 to counter the American''s straight-wing F-80 jets and to repel the United States Air Force (USAF) B-29 bomber formations that were interdicting the PRC''s flow of troops and supplies into North Korea. This in turn prompted the USAF, against its conventional wisdom of retaining its first-line air-defence fighters to face Soviet air forces across the ''Iron Curtain'' in Europe, to deploy its very best - the F-86A Sabre - to counter this threat. Thus began a two-and-a-half-year struggle in the skies over a corner of North Korea known as "MiG Alley." |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-05-20 |