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first flew. Despite its mixed origins, this aircraft had excellent performance and formed the basis for a number of future fighters. The MiG-15 was originally intended to intercept
American bombers such as the
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of 1946. The MiG-9 used a pair of the RD-20 Soviet copies of the BMW 003 for its power, which proved to be unreliable, with the airframe's straight-winged design suffering from control problems.
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canard pusher monoplane, the swept-wing research from it and captured German research documents allowed the
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of the immediate post-war era was a rocket-powered, "straight-winged" point-defense fighter design based on captured examples of, and documentation for the never-produced German
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jet engine — blueprints for the 109-003 turbojet had been seized by Soviet forces from the
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