The furious pace of cold war weapons development ensured the North American F-86 Sabre burned briefly but ... In 1952, the F-86D would improve upon that with a 698-mph run before becoming the ...

The U.S. Air Force was able to determine precisely how the Soviet-built MiG-15 compared with its own premier fighter, the North American F-86 Sabre, because on September 21, 1953, two months after ...