 An important reason for the increasing superiority of UN air power was the new F86-F, which had been issued to two squadrons of the 51st Wing in June and July and began reaching the 4th Wing in September.This Sabre development had a more powerful J47 engine developing thrust, wing shackles for drop tanks (raising the combat radius to ) and a simplified A4 radar gun sight that was more efficient than the MkXVIII gyro sight used on most of the F86-As and easier to maintain than the rather unreliable A1CM radar sight fitted to late F86-As and Es.One Meteor was shot down and another damaged by MiGs following a ground-attack mission on 2 October 1952.