MiG-19 (Shenyang J-6) was introduced to North Vietnamese People's Air Force in January 1969, more than three years after the ...

Bad weather and heavy enemy air defenses were just the beginning of what was probably the worst day of the Vietnam War for the Intruder community. Not only that Cdr Profilet's A-6 was hit by a SAM ...

September 17, 2023: North Korea is converting 400 of its 1950’s era MiG-17 and MiG-19 fighters into cruise missiles. North Korea is the last nation to still have many of these aircraft in service, ...

Soviet aerospace engineers designed the MiG-19 to address significant problems inherent to the MiG-15 and similar MiG-17 fighter designs. Although the planes were notable for their agility at subsonic ...

The Cold War coincided almost perfectly with the rise of the jet age. In the denouement of World War II, American and Soviet forces scrambled to secure jet engine technology developed by German ...

After deploying a few successful aircraft, such as the Mig-19, Mig-21, or Mig-23, the Russian military asked for something more impressive, able to compete against the agile, American weapons, and the ...

On September 26, after more than 60 years in operational service, the few MiG-21s still flying in IAF squadrons will be put ...