The
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (
NATO reporting name:
Fresco) (
China:
Shenyang J-5) (
Poland:
PZL-Mielec Lim-5) is a high-subsonic
fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. It is an advanced development of the very similar appearing
MiG-15 of the Korean War.