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

The only sin the Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-19 (NATO Codename: Fargo) ever committed was being built in the wrong place at the wrong time. Too close to the MiG-17 to stand out on its own and too close to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...