Admiral Beez
Major
Of the straight wing jet fighters, which will beat them all? There's of course the Hawker Sea Hawk and McDonnell F2H Banshee.
Then there's the MiG-9.
Then there's the MiG-9.
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F-104 Starfighter...
IIRC, one fully confirmed victory in 1951 and possibly another in 1950 - a MiG-15 was damaged in combat with an F-80 and crashed in an emergency landing at its airfield, the pilot was killed. Not very impressive, to be honest.Lockheed F-80C also downed MiG-15 and that was when USSR had their WW2 seasoned pilots flying them.
The Soviets admit two and on different days - November 9 and 18, 1950. And three more MiG-15s on November 18, 1952 - the MiGs were from the 781st IAP of the Pacific Fleet Air Arm, which did not participate in the war.Shot down 4 Russian Mig-15s in one day during Korean War.
The MiG-9 suffered from a large number of serious deficiencies and was not improved to an acceptable level of reliability. Much more advanced were the Yak-23 (built in series, transferred to pro-Soviet states) and the Yak-25 (the first with this designation).Then there's the MiG-9
The Yak-25 was far superior to the T-33 in basic flight characteristics with the exception of range.Don't forget the T-33
Yak 25 only 1 made. One cannot compare.The Ouragan was more of a bomber than a fighter and as a fighter, it was significantly inferior - even with a more powerful engine - to the Yak-25 in terms of flight performance.
Yakovlev Yak-25 (1947)
The condition of mass production was not required from the beginning. The Yak-25 is a very rare case for the Soviet aircraft industry, when the prototype in a single copy was much better than the production models (in particular, MiG-9 and Yak-23) in terms of perfection. It might be even better than the MiG-15 in terms of perfection, but significantly inferior to the latter in terms of performance. Serial production of the Yak-25 could have been deployed very quickly - instead of the Yak-23, but it was already clear that the finalization of the MiG-15 is fast, and there was no great sense in the production of the Yak.Yak 25 only 1 made. One cannot compare.
But the reason i posted this is that french models are overlooked. Thought i trow in a bit of flavour.
Would the CF-100 have survived in the Korean War?I was going to bring up the CF-100 and the Straight wing versions of the F-84 should also be considered IMO. Also the Dassault Ouragan should be on the list. Unlike the CF-100 (of which I am a fan of) both the F-84 and the Ouragan saw combat.
And who and why would need heavy interceptors in Korea? They had no chance against the MiGs/Sabres.Would the CF-100 have survived in the Korean War?