Snatch a Sabre! The 1951 Soviet Operation to Steal America's Latest Fighter
In 1951, the American F-86 Sabre went head-to-head with the Soviet MiG-15 in the skies above North Korea. Both sides wanted to capture examples of each others aircraft. The Soviets hatched a secret plan to steal an F-86 in a daring battlefield operation.
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Those jets are 70 years old yet they still look sleek, beautiful and deadly.
They should've just asked CJ to steal a jet.
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS STEAL THE DAMN PLANE CJ!
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"F86 is faster, rolls, dives and turns better." Literally next sentence: "Mig15 is more maneuverable"
The key factor in the F-86 ability to operate in transonic flight was the all moving horizontal stabiliser(HS). The Mig had a fixed HS and would go out of control in a supersonic dive speed. This is all covered in Chuck Yeager's book, and was the key to supersonic flight. The F-86 also had an engine with axial compressors, while the Mig had the old style centrifugal compressors. The axial compressor jet engines were first used on the ME-262 WW2 German fighter and are now used on all large jet engines.The axial compressor engine for the ME-262 was designed by the forgotten great man Anselm Franz.
Well said
I believe operation moolah was an accidental success, the pilot of the mig was merely tired of North Korea and decided to fly too the South. I'm sure the money was welcome as well however.
Yes, the pilot was not aware of the reward while he was defecting
I wouldn't call it a success at all. The pilot didn't even know about it, so that means the operation wasn't the reason for obtaining the Mig-15. In fact don't think any pilots defected due to moolah at all. So it's a failure.
Can we talk about how an operation to give away 1 million dollars is called "Moolah"
i agree. they could have been offering chocolate chip cookies for all the difference it made tempting pilots
@@suspicioususer that's the point
Nothing better than hearing that intro in the morning
The North Korean Pilots defection with a MiG-15 is a epic story in itself, particularly with what happened when he finally arrived at his destination.
you mean the one that on a routine patrol and decides to fuck it and made a run for it?
No Kum Sok was his name. If you ever get your hands on his biography, “The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot”, it’s a good read.
Indeed. That defecting NK Pilot had no idea about the apparent offer of reward from the Americans. I assume that one million dollar reward was in today's dollars? Seems they were only offering $100k (1950's era dollars).
@@dosgamer74 I actually thought it was more than that, I think it might've been around 1.5 million
Kum Sok? Disgusting, personally I use a tissue.
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MiG-15s SUCCESS WAS BASED ON BRITISH ENGINE TECHNOLOGY A big part of the MiG-15's success was its engine, the Klimov VK-1, which was a reverse-engineered and modified design of the Rolls-Royce Nene engine, in 1946, the British Labor government allowed the sale of the Nene to the Soviets. This made the MiG-15 deadly fighter that was flown against the Allies durring the Korean War. With all due respect to the UK and US governments, often times our worst enemy is our own leadership, Joesph Stalin commented on the sale saying, “What fool will sell us his secrets?”
*... The sabre can turn, dive and roll faster. The mig on the other hand was more manouverable" LoL
Sabre had speed Mig had turn rate
This rang strangely with me too, but then I thought about it: Manoeuvrability isn't about roll and turn rate. It's about *changing* roll and turn, ie acceleration. Imagine a car that does 100Km/h with 0-100 in 8 seconds vs a car that does 90Km/h and gets 0-90 in 5 seconds.
They were not Martin B-26 Marauders, they were Douglas B-26 Invaders. Immediately after WWII the Martin B-26 was retired - a process that began late in the war by the A-26 Invader. No B-26 Marauders were used in the Korean War. Postwar the A for Attack designation was discontinued and the A-26 Invader was redesignated the B-26 Invader. I know, confusing, eh? It gets better. In 1962 the A for attack designation was revived (Think A-1 Skyraider , Douglas A-6, Vought A-7, etc.) and the Invader became the A-26 again for Vietnam.
Thank you, I noticed that he said B-26 Marauders at 5:15. My father flew B-26 Invaders in the Korean War, in 1953. They destroyed a lot of Chinese vehicles, mostly at night.
The North Korean pilot who defected was No Kum-Sok. He received his reward, which was $100k despite the figure stated here. He moved to the United States and became a professor of aeronautical engineering. He's still alive and lives in Florida.
In Chuck Yeager's book he talked about the time he got to test fly a MiG-15 and Flew it to the very edge of its envelope of flight
stonehaven it was better against bombers because of 23 and 37 mm cannons which would have little problems quickly shutting down even huge beasts like B-36. F-86 with its tiny machineguns on the other hand...
Just as s side note. The USCG calls those flying boats “Albatross” they have one on display here at the clearwater air station
That's the name Grumman gave it.
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We always here about the defecting NK MiG-15, but we never hear about the stories of U.S. aircraft captured by the Russians. Great story!
blimey, that was exciting! I didn't know about the crashed Sabre and had no idea what happens at the end! 😲
Great cat-and-mouse story. So many elements of deception and evasion.
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Those sneaky Soviets, do anything for a Saber.
Except pay money.
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@ Dr. Felton - NO Marauders in Korea, the A-26 was re-designated a B-26. Yes this is commented previously but felt it was worth reiterating. That said, LOVE your vids sir. A breath of fresh air compared to the usual media compost.
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I’ve heard about the Soviet Sabre in Wikipedia but I didn’t know that the Soviets went through all the trouble to get it and the U.S. doing everything they can to stop them from getting it! Thank u for this fully detailed video Mark!
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The American operation Moolah didn't actually convince any soviets or Koreans to defect. No Kum-Sok, the korean defector had no idea that the Americans were offering money and safety in return for his defection.
The B-26 used in Korea was an Invader not a Marauder.
At eight my pride and joy was a Korean war Soveit pilots helmet complete with a .50 caliber Machinegun hole through both sides and a red star. Some pilots tropy that was sold for almost nothing at a rummage sale.
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Great video! One minor error. 5:11 The B-26 Marauder did not see action over Korea but the Douglas A-26 Invader, redesignated B-26 did. The Invader served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Oh, and the Bay of Pigs invasion...
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A great uncle of mine served in the United States Air Force in Korea... This is a cool story!
Been subscribed a while, really enjoy your content. A suggestion for a vid? Read somewhere about a Spetznaz raid on a US airfield in Vietnam to steal tech from Cobra gunships......not sure how much truth was in it.....
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Did some YT'ing after reading Jed Mercurio's rather excellent novel "Ascent" about the air conflict over Korea. Excellent clip
Well it was bound to happen… I guess the most important part is the pilot got away.
That is a whole other story...... Russians holding US And Other POWs. Many were milked for technical info and not returned.
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I wonder if that recovered F-86 still exists in a Russian museum somewhere.
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I believe that the first benefit to the Soviets of having studied the radar gun sight of the Sabre was then being able to build a detector for it. No more shooting the Migs down without warning, as soon as there were being targeted a sensor in their plane would give warning, and the closer the Sabre targeting them the faster the warning signal would go.
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Operation Moolah didn't pay off. The defecting pilot did not even know there was a cash reward for bringing in a MiG15.
This is an amazing & little known story. There's so many secrets in every war, that it's great to learn accurate, objective accounts of them.
I really enjoy this channel. I found one minor discrepancy in this video. Dr. Felton mentions that the Chinese convoy was attacked by rocket-firing B-26 "Marauder" bombers. The Martin B-26 "Marauder" medium bomber was phased out of US service almost as soon as WWII was over. Douglas Aircraft produced the A-26 "Invader" attack bomber in the later years of the war. When the Martin plane was removed from service, the A-26 was re-designated B-26. The Douglas B-26 "Invader" was extensively used during the Korean War, and remained in service, participating the Bay of Pigs debacle and into the early part of the Vietnam War.
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Some one should definitely make a movie on it......
abeer hasan get the russians to do it, watching russian films about the ussr is a meme in itself
Wow what an amazing story
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Wow!, yet another item of aviation history I had no idea about! Love the Soviet perspective. Are there many more stories mirroring famous western achievements like the capture of the Mig 15? In other words, are there many other tit-for-tat incidents where the Soviets or other adversaries gained an advantage over the West that the West doesn't care to bring up? There are so many gaps in the often repeated popular historical narrative. One example of what few Americans care to discuss is how many foreign made aircraft we have successfully employed. The British have never really neglected pointing out the usefulness of their US made aircraft. Did the US's lack of indigenous built combat aircraft in WWI inspire a sense of venerability if it were to highlight it's need to employ British combat aircraft, especially early in WWII? While we're at it, why were there so many US made aircraft that were highly effective in foreign services while we couldn't seem to figure out how to employ them successfully? Why have Americans seemingly exiled these same aircraft, not often mentioning them or acknowledging their American made contribution to the war effort?
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