Franklin Mint 1:48 B11F030 Mig-15 Soviet Air Force "147 GIAP" Pilot Nikolay Shkodin, 1953 |
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Scale: 1:48 |
Length: 9" |
Width: 7.75" |
Composition: Diecast |
SKU: FM-B11F030 |
Soviet Ace Nikolay Shkodin finished his military career with 5 victories (4 F-86 and one F-84G). During the war he flew 150 combat missions. He is presently a General-Major retired. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 was a jet fighter developed for the USSR by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful swept-wing jet fighters, and it achieved fame in the skies over Korea, where early in the war, it outclassed all straight-winged enemy fighters in daylight.