Re: Sabre vs MiG-15; similar to Bf 109 vs Spitfire

["Diego Zampini" <dzampini@hotmail.com>]

Cookie:

>Dan,
>There were apparently no confirmed fights between F-51s and La-9/11s in
>Korea. The Soviets claim that those which took place in China during 
> >1949-50 were all decided in the favor of the La-11s, whose heavier 
> >armament of 3 x 23mm guns could blow the Mustang away before it could 
> >escape.
>Note that these were ROC flown aircraft.

I thought the RoKAF had only T-6 Texans or other types of unarmed trainers 
when the war began in June 1950 (at least that was what is mentioned in most 
of the US bibliograhy). Intyeresting thing if it actually had P-51s too.
Diego.


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