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    The document discusses several Soviet interceptor aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich in the late 1950s and early 1960s to fulfill air defense requirements. These included the Ye-150 missile-armed interceptor, which first flew in 1960 and demonstrated impressive speed and altitude capabilities during testing. Parallel efforts developed the Ye-151 cannon-armed variant and Ye-152 interceptors with improved engines, but reliability issues plagued the programs. The Ye-152A twin-engine version utilized more reliable engines and continued testing into the 1960s.

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    The document discusses several Soviet interceptor aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich in the late 1950s and early 1960s to fulfill air defense requirements. These included the Ye-150 missile-armed interceptor, which first flew in 1960 and demonstrated impressive speed and altitude capabilities during testing. Parallel efforts developed the Ye-151 cannon-armed variant and Ye-152 interceptors with improved engines, but reliability issues plagued the programs. The Ye-152A twin-engine version utilized more reliable engines and continued testing into the 1960s.

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    The document discusses several Soviet interceptor aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich in the late 1950s and early 1960s to fulfill air defense requirements. These included the Ye-150 missile-armed interceptor, which first flew in 1960 and demonstrated impressive speed and altitude capabilities during testing. Parallel efforts developed the Ye-151 cannon-armed variant and Ye-152 interceptors with improved engines, but reliability issues plagued the programs. The Ye-152A twin-engine version utilized more reliable engines and continued testing into the 1960s.

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    To fulfil the needs of the Protivo-Vozdushnaya Oborona (air defence forces, PVO) for a heavy

    interceptor to carry out automatic interceptions, the MiG bureau had developed a range of large
    fighter aircraft starting with the swept wing I-3 series (a.k.a. I-380, I-410 and I-420), followed by the
    I-7 and the I-75. The requirement for supersonic interception speed and the ability to carry heavy
    avionic systems dictated the size; in comparison the contemporary MiG-21F (similar in layout),
    weighed 4,819 kg (10,624 lb) and was 15.76m (51 ft 8-1/2in) long, compared with 12,345 kg (27,215
    lb) and 18.14m (59 ft 6in) respectively, for the Ye-150.[1]

    The MAP (Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - ministry of aviation industry) ordered the
    Mikoyan OKB to build prototypes of the new interceptor, to be armed with either K-6, K-7, K-8, K-9,
    unguided rockets, or an aimable twin cannon installation. Automatic guidance to the interception
    point was to be provided by Urugan-5 (hurricane-5) integrated weapons systems.

    Variants
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    Ye-150
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    The initial missile-armed version, designated Ye-150, flew for the first time on 8 July 1960, after
    extensive ground checks of systems and a delay in delivery of a flightworthy engine.[1] Flight testing
    progressed slowly, hampered by the very short life of the R-15 engine (barely sufficient for pre-flight
    ground checks and a single flight), as well as problems with aileron buffeting, brake parachute
    failure, and the engine accessory gearbox disintegrating. Manufacturer's flight tests, over 42 flights,
    revealed very high rates of climb, impressive maximum speed (Mach 2.65 at 19,100 m (62,700 ft)
    using less than full throttle), and a phenomenal service ceiling of at least 21,000 m (69,000 ft).[1]

    Installation of weapons systems was not carried out on the Ye-150 and it was not authorised for
    production, but development continued with the Ye-151 and Ye-152.[1]

    Ye-151
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    The Ye-151 cannon-armed version was designed in parallel with the Ye-150 but did not proceed to
    the hardware stage. The weapon system was to have consisted of twin TKB-495 or Makarov TKB-539
    cannon,[7] with a rate of fire of 2,000 rds/min, mounted on a rotating ring in tilting mounts. The
    mounts could tilt ±30° and the mounting ring could rotate 360°, which gave the installation a 60°
    cone of fire around the centreline of the mounting ring. To accommodate the ring turret, the inlet
    duct was lengthened with the rotating ring forming the inlet lip, wind tunnel testing confirming that
    the extended inlet duct would actually improve aerodynamic and inlet performance; the lengthened
    inlet was retained for all later Ye-150 series aircraft (without cannon installation). Further tunnel
    testing with an inlet mounting fitted with cannon revealed destabilising forces when the cannon
    were deflected, making accurate weapon aiming impossible and precluding further development.
    Studies were carried out with the cannon mount aft of the cockpit to reduce the destabilising
    moment, as the Ye-151-2, but no hardware resulted.[1]

    Ye-152
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    The two single-engined Ye-152's were completed with improved R-15-300 engines, as the Ye-152-1
    and Ye-152-2, but reliability remained an issue, with only limited development flying, weapons
    system testing and world record flights carried out. The poor reliability of the engine and the
    cancellation of the intended K-9 / Urugan-5B weapon system brought the Ye-152 program to a
    close.[1][8] Cropped delta wings with greater area allowed the large K-80 or K-9 missiles to be
    carried on wingtip launchers.
    World record flights were carried out by the first prototype Ye-152-1 in 1961 and 1962, registered
    with the FAI as the Ye-166.[1]

    The second aircraft, Ye-152-2, was returned to Mikoyan for conversion to the Ye-152M, featuring an
    axisymmetric convergent-divergent nozzle and canards on either side of the forward fuselage, which
    were soon removed. The Ye-152M was retired to the Central Air Force Museum at Monino,
    misleadingly marked as the Ye-166 which was, in fact, the unmodified Ye-152-1.[1]

    Plan view silhouettes of the Ye-152 and Ye-152M


    Ye-152A
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    The Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A was a twin-engined version of the Ye-152, sharing its general layout
    but utilising two Tumansky R-11 afterburning turbojets mounted side by side in a revised rear
    fuselage. The change in engine type, necessitated by the extremely poor reliability of the R-15, led to
    a widened rear fuselage with large ventral fins. The majority of the airframe was identical to the Ye-
    152, incorporating the extended inlet and fuselage found to be advantageous during testing for the
    proposed Ye-151 cannon-armed variant of the Ye-150. Due to the use of fully developed and reliable
    R-11 engines, the Ye-152A was ready for flight in July 1959 and continued to fly on test duties at the
    Mikoyan-Gurevich test centre until it crashed in 1965.[1]

    Armament was to have been two K-9 air-to-air missiles, as part of the Ye-152-9-V weapon system,
    featuring the TsKB Almaz TsP-1 fire control radar.

    The Ye-152A was assigned the NATO reporting name Flipper after a flypast during the 1961 Aviation
    Day display at Tushino and also erroneously identified as a MiG-23.[1]

    Ye-152P
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    A proposed development, powered by the more reliable R-15-300 engine and using the Urugan-5B
    weapon control system and carrying the large K-80 long-range AAM.[1]

    Ye-152M
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    The Ye-152-2 was returned to the Mikoyan factory for conversion to the Ye-152M, fitted with small
    canard surfaces on either side of the forward fuselage and an R-15-300 engine fitted with an
    axisymmetric convergent-divergent nozzle, allowing the ejector ring around the rear fuselage to be
    dispensed with. After initial flight testing the canards were removed leaving the mounting structures
    behind. Used for further testing of the R-15 engine and Urugan weapon systems, the Ye-152M was
    retired to the Central Air Force Museum at Monino bearing the erroneous identity Ye-166 and three
    red stars to signify the world records set by its sister ship, the Ye-152-1.[1]

    Ye-166
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    Fictitious designation of the Ye-152-1, used when registering the world records with the Fédération
    Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Also applied to the Ye-152M displayed at Monino as an
    intelligence ruse.[1]

    MiG-23
    Edit
    An erroneous designation applied by western intelligence observers to the Ye-152A after the display
    at Tushino in 1961.[1]

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