the MiG-17 featured improved speed, handling, and armament over its predecessor, the MiG-15. -Despite a lackluster debut during the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the MiG-17 proved its worth during ...

History roared over Barksdale AFB as four MiG-17F Frescos took to the skies in a first-of-its-kind performance during the ...

and noted in their evaluation that the MiG-15 already was a good match for the F-86 and that the MiG-17, about to go into production, was more advanced. According to Yakovlev’s Eugenji Adler ...