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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 is a jet fighter aircraft produced
in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many
variants. Licence production was carried out in East Germany,
Poland (PZL-Mielec Lim-6) and the Peoples Republic of China
(Shenyang J-5). USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 38", NATO reporting
name "Fresco"
Operational history
An Egyptian MiG-17The strategic purpose of this, and most other
Soviet fighters, was to shoot down US bombers, not engage in
dogfights. This subsonic (.93 Mach) fighter was effective against
slower (.6-.8 Mach), heavily loaded US fighter-bombers, as well as
the mainstay American strategic bombers during the MiG-17's
development cycle (such as the B-50 or B-36, which were both still
powered by piston engines). Even if the target had sufficient
warning and time to shed weight and drag by dropping external
ordnance and accelerate to supersonic escape speeds, doing so would
have inherently forced the enemy aircraft to abort its bombing
mission. By the time the USAF introduced strategic bombers capable
of cruising at supersonic speeds such as the B-58 Hustler and
FB-111, however, the MiG-17 became obsolete in PVO service and was
supplanted by supersonic interceptors such as the MiG-21 and
MiG-23. Twenty countries flew MiG-17s.
The MiG-17 became a standard fighter in all Warsaw Pact
countries in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were also bought
by many other countries, mainly in Africa and Asia, that were
neutrally aligned or allied with the USSR. The MiG-17 flies today
in several of these nations air forces. Including Angola, Mali,
Mozambique, North Korea, Sudan, and Tanzenia. MiG-17s were not
available for the Korean War, but saw combat for the first time
over the Straits of Taiwan when PRC MiG-17s clashed with ROC F-86
Sabres in 1958.
The MiG-17 was the primary interceptor of the fledgling Vietnam
People's Air Force in 1965 and scored its first victories and saw
considerable action during the Vietnam War, when they frequently
worked in conjunction with MiG-21s and MiG-19s. Some North
Vietnamese pilots, in fact, preferred the MiG-17 over the MiG-21;
it was more agile, though not as fast. The American fighter
community was shocked in 1965 when elderly, subsonic MiG-17s downed
sophisticated Mach-2-class F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bombers over
North Vietnam. To redress disappointing combat performance against
smaller, more agile fighters like the MiGs, the Americans
established dissimilar air combat training (DACT) in training
programs such as "TOPGUN", which employed subsonic A-4 Skyhawk
aircraft to mimic more manoeuvrable opponents such as the MiG-17.
The US Navy also set Adversary squadrons equipped with the nimble
A-4 at each of its fighter and attack Master jet bases to provide
DACT.
At least 24 of them served with the Nigerian Air Force and were
flown by a mixed group of Nigerian and mercenary pilots from East
Germany, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Australia
during the 1967-70 Nigerian Civil War. Four were hurriedly supplied
by the USSR to Sri Lanka during the 1971 insurgency and were used
for bombing and ground attack in that conflict.
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