Here’s What You Need to Know: The MiG-17 was surprisingly nimble — especially in Vietnam, where despite being decades older, slower, and outgunned, it managed to shoot many Americans out of the sky.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the hands of North Vietnam, the MiG-17 shone. Smaller and slower, the MiG-17 were much lighter and significantly more maneuverable at low speed than the Republic F ...

FIGHTERJETS INC partners with the Collings Foundation and Vietnam War Flight Museum for the 2026 airshow season, showcasing ...

"At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) was equipped with slow, old Korean War-generation fighters--a combination of MiG-17s and MiG-19s, types that should have ...

NASMAI copy: Gift of Norman Polmar. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!1172995~!0#focus ...

I’m curious, where did the MiG-15s, -17s and -21s that the North Vietnamese used to inflict 83 air-combat losses on the U.S. come from? (“The Ukraine MiG-29 Fiasco Gets Worse,” Review & Outlook, March ...