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During the late 1940s and early 1950s the Soviet Union faced an interceptor gap. Fast, high-flying US and British bombers outperformed World War Two radar-equipped fighters and could operate at night to avoid early jets. With heavy jet interceptors a decade away, the Politburo ordered Mikoyan and Gurevich to develop radar-equipped versions of their successful MiG-15 day fighter. This is the story of those aircraft and their long-lived successors: the MiG-17P, PF and PFU.