[Stig Jarlevik]

Well Nick

I don't think the MiGs were there to just play with the F-86s.
They were there to stop the UN aircraft to get through to stop the Chinese/North Korean
ground troops.
If you look at the losses of the F-80s, F-84s, B-29s and Naval attack aircraft you will see
quite a different figure.
From the US side almost all of that was lost to AA-fire.

When coming down to take on the ground attack aircraft the MiGs were much more vulnerable.
Had they been used only as the Luftwaffe fighters on the Western Front 1941-42 the situation
would almost certainly have been very different.
Speculation of course since I can't predict what new tactics could have done to change things.

Cheers
Stig