The first wave of F-86 pilots in the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing included veterans of World War II combat. Ostensibly, they were to engage inexperienced Russian-trained Chinese MiG-15 pilots.

However, this marketing drive hasn't translated into an uptick in sales of their state-of-the-art fighter ... of most professional fighter pilots, the Su-35 is a typical Russian machine.

the 324th Fighter Air Division, had arrived in China in April 1951. They didn’t know that the ranks of the 324th were filled with some of the highest scoring Soviet pilots from World War II or ...