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MiG-15 - No Ground Electrical Power?


Charly_Owl

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I found these two items indicated when I look up Mig 15 Starter generator. 12SAM-25 DC battery and ST2-48 self-contained starter system.

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From what the Internet tells me, self starting capability was added during production of the MiG-15bis. So vanilla MiG-15 and possibly also some early MiG-15bis aircraft didn't have that capability. Why didn't the Americans do the same? Who knows, I guess they didn't consider it essential. A more capable battery may also be bigger and heavier, perhaps they weren't willing to make that sacrifice.

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Huh, interesting... did the MiG-15 not require a GPU to start in the past ?

 

It definitely needs one now, unless I am doing something wrong.

 

Yes that was the case, I definitely remember being able to start the Mig15 without ground power.

Today...wel .... if you're doing something wrong, then I do too because I need that GPU ON to startup now. :)

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