Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco - A Short History
Channel: A Short History
Date: 11/12/2021

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco was a single-seat jet fighter produced by the Soviet Union. It was a subsonic aircraft, developed mainly for interceptor duties. The MiG-17 served in the Vietnam War, and was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6.

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Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-17,  License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) - the text has been remixed and shortened

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"Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-17 'Fresco C'.jpg" by D. Miller, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mikoyan-Gurevich_Mig-17_%27Fresco_C%27.jpg, License: CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)
"MiG 17A Mighty 8th.JPG" by Bubba73, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MiG_17A_Mighty_8th.JPG, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

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