While the Sabre missed service in WWII, it was deployed in the unfriendly skies of the Korean War. The F-86 squared off against the Soviet-designed MiG-15, which itself was developed with the help ...

The Sabre was armed with six .50-caliber M3 machine guns mounted in the nose. The Mark 18 manual-ranging computing gun sight was replaced in later models with the A-1CM, which used radar ranging. In ...