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“MiG Alley: Air to Air Combat Over Korea” by Larry Davis.
Carrollton, Texas, USA: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1978.
«The war ended at Midnight on 27 July 1953. It had lasted a little over 3 years. The Reds lost 954 aircraft, 827 of which were MiG-15s. The Sabres shot down 792 of that total. Air-to-air losses of US fighters included 78 Sabres, 14 F-80s, 18 F-84s, 10 F-51s (P-51) and one F-94B. Although there were only 17 B-29s lost over North Korea, there were dozens more that never flew again after making it to their home field. Even with proper escort, the B-29s were meat on the table for the MiGs. The B-29s themselves were too slow and the computer gunsights they were using couldn’t keep up with the rapid closure rates of the MiGs.
Designed as a swept-wing, high-altitude bomber-interceptor powered by a Soviet version of the Rolls-Royce Nene jet engine, the MiG-15 suffered in the air-to-air fighting in Korea from a slow cyclic rate of fire and the high position of the tail made it unstable at high speeds. But the MiG pilot in Korea had also two big advantages – a great rate of climb and the UN policy that made their bases into sanctuaries. The rate of climb for the MiG-15 was 10,100 ft/min, much better than the best Sabre, the F-86f AT 9,300 ft/min. This rate of climb, plus a service ceiling advantage of some 7,000 feet, had a great deal to do with Red air tactics.
The Reds were based at ‘sanctuaries’ such as Antung, Ta-ku-shan and Feng –cheng, just across the “Yalu River. From these ‘sanctuaries’ their GCI (Ground Control Intercept) radar would scramble them to meet the Sabres. Climbing usually to an altitude of 50,000+ feet on the north side of the Yalu, they would then use many different attack schemes to try and gain an advantage over the Sabres. The “Hit and Run”, “Zoom and Sun”, “Staircase” and “Yo-Yo” were common and all depended on the MiG’s great rate of climb to keep them out of trouble.
MiG pilots came from many different countries including the Warsaw Pact, China and Russia. Sometimes they brought their own aircraft as US pilots reported seeing almost every type of Iron Curtain national insignia on the MiGs. Including red crosses! The better Red units had a great deal of colorful marking like US units. One of the best units to fly in Korea was a believed-to-be Russian unit whose planes were camouflaged in overall coppery-tan. Taking to the air in early 1953, they were much more aggressive than most Red pilots. They did shoot down some Sabres but were decimated and withdrawn by April 1953. The great Russian ace Kozhedub led the Russian units for a year in the 1951-52 period.
Lt. Kum Suk No, who defected with his MiG to Kimpo in 1953, reported that Red air strength was slightly over 900 MiGs: 400 Russian, 400 Chinese and 125 Korean. These were faced by the American Sabre contingent which ran from 7 fighters in December 1950 to 300 at the end of the war. Lt. Kum Suk No further reported that the Reds lost over 800 planes by war’s end. His division of 70 MiGs lost 30. He made a flat statement that “If not for the sheer superiority of the Sabre, the Korean war would still be going on today”. Korea was won by airpower. Captured Chinese documents report that the Chinese General Staff believed that had they gotten air superiority at any time during the war, they could have pushed the UN troops into the sea. The Fifth Air Force crews were the only obstacle that could stop it from happening.»