Rats wrote:

US F86 sabres shot down a lot of Mig 15s in the Korean War. The ratio was
around 8 - 1. I recently watched a documentary about the confrontation
between these two planes. Apparently they were quite evenly matched with the
F86 having a slight overall advantage. In the end the high ratio was
attributed to the superiour skills and experience of the US pilots. Many of
them were WWII veterans while the North Korean and Chinese pilots had bugger
all experience. However what was interesting was that some Russian pilots
also flew against the US. Does anyone have any accurate records on what the
kill:loss ratio against Russian pilots in the Korean War were?

One of the former senior commanders (can't remember if he commanded the 64th IAK
or an IAD) stated that they'd lost about 335 MiG-15s, 300 in combat and the
others operational. That doesn't include Chinese or North Korean losses, and
the U.S. claims really increased after the Soviets went home. The book on
actual versus claimed kills still remains to be written, but here's a good URL
which has some more or less unbiased research from Soviet sources, comparing
them to US reports:

http://www.korean-war.com/ussraircombat.html

Here's an American-compiled chronology:

http://www.korean-war.com/AirChronology.html

and here's an excellent official source on U.S. Korean War losses:

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pmkor/korwald.htm

Gu