Aero S-103 - Pribor, Czech Republic
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N 49° 38.329 E 018° 08.402
34U E 293516 N 5502402
Aero S-103 (MiG-15bis)
Waymark Code: WMTZC7
Location: Moravskoslezský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/27/2017
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Between 1954 and 1958, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech and Slovak Republics) used the S-103 as its main jet fighter. This aircraft was the Soviet MiG-15bis, built under licence by the Aero Vodochody aircraft company.
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (NATO reporting name: "Fagot") was a jet fighter aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB for the Soviet Union. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful jet fighters to incorporate swept wings to achieve high transonic speeds. In combat over Korea, it outclassed straight-winged jet day fighters, which were largely relegated to ground attack roles, and was quickly countered by the similar American swept-wing North American F-86 Sabre. The MiG-15 is often mentioned, along with the F-86 Sabre, as the best fighter aircraft of the Korean War.
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