https://cast.pudmed.ir/videos/watch/2acabc6d-79cb-41a9-b868-9c04ab46f973 Berlin is in ruins. The Soviet Union captures German jet engines, blueprints, and engineers. Stalin demands a jet fighter – immediately. Within two years, the USSR goes from biplanes to Mach 0.9. The result is a mess of rushed designs, deadly flameouts, and one legendary fighter that changed air power forever: the MiG‑15., In this full-length episode: 🔧 The German Seed – The BMW 003 and Junkers Jumo 004 engines captured from defeated Luftwaffe facilities. We trace how Soviet engineers reverse‑engineered them into the Klimov RD-20 and RD-10 – crude but workable first jets. ✈ The First Generation – MiG‑9 & Yak‑15 – Two very different approaches. The MiG‑9 (twin engines buried in the nose) – fast but prone to ingesting its own cannon exhaust. The Yak‑15 (a Yak‑3 with a jet engine bolted underneath) – crude, but it worked. Rare footage of both flying in 1946. ⭐ The Game Changer – MiG‑15 – Britain’s Labour government, in a stunning act of naivety, sells Rolls‑Royce Nene engines to the USSR. The result? The Klimov VK-1 – a copy that powered the MiG‑15. We explain why this fighter – swept wings, pressurised cockpit, heavy cannon – outclassed everything except the F-86 Sabre. 🇰🇵 Korea – The Jet War Begins – The MiG‑15 vs. F-86 Sabre. Not just a dogfight – a revolution. We re‑create the MiG Alley ambushes, the high‑altitude advantage, and why the MiG‑15 terrified B‑29 crews (who called it “the silver menace”). 📈 The Soviet Jet Industry Matures – How the MiG‑15 led to the MiG‑17 (the Korean War veteran’s refined cousin), the MiG‑19 (the first Soviet supersonic fighter), and the MiG‑21 (covered in a previous episode). The jet era was not just about speed – it was about radar, missiles, and all‑weather capability. Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:22:35 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://cast.pudmed.ir https://cast.pudmed.ir/lazy-static/avatars/eed1cb33-d04c-4158-b000-2f2fb9545c13.png https://cast.pudmed.ir/videos/watch/2acabc6d-79cb-41a9-b868-9c04ab46f973 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://cast.pudmed.ir/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.