The product of captured German wartime data, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 became famous as the adversary of the U.S. Air Force’s F-86 in the skies over Korea. Over 15,000 of these swept-wing fighters were built in the USSR, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, serving in the air forces of the Soviet Union and its allies as well as being exported to other nations. More than 150 colour and b&w photos, 12 colour profiles, b&w line drawings, colour covers. 80 pages, soft cover, landscape format. Hans-Heiri Stapfer. Colour by Don Greer; illustrated by David Gebhardt.
