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 ...

For twelve brutal minutes in the skies over Vietnam, every desperate maneuver Duke Cunningham performed in his F-4J Phantom II was countered by the enemy MiG-17, locked to his tail like a shadow.

"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 ...

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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 ...