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Description
| Notes: Fighter derived from Mig-17 | ||
| Manufacturer: | Mikoyan-Gurevich | |
| Base model: | MiG-19 | |
| Designation: | MiG-19 | |
| Nickname: | Farmer-A | |
| Basic role: | Fighter (USSR) | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| March Field Air Museum | Riverside | California |
MiG-19 on display
March Field Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| sam delhi, GA | the mig-19 really kicked the f-4 phantoms in the vietnam war. 02/07/2007 @ 06:50 [ref: 15443] |
| sam delhi, GA | the mig-19 really kicked the f-4 phantoms in the vietnam war. 02/07/2007 @ 06:50 [ref: 15442] |
| Martin Prague, Czech Republic, OTH | MiG-19 was ahead of its time, and can be seen as a forerunner to concept of jets of our time: great T/W ratio for its period, great wing, excellent rate of climb (in excess of 500 feet/sec.), three 30 NR-30 mm guns, it was clearly superior dogfighter to its peer adversary F-100.
It could outturn and beat all century fighters in dogfight and was more than a match for F-4, as MiG-19 turned far better and could climb almost as fast as F-4. Fortunately, MiG-19 was deployed in Vietnam in modest numbers, compared to MiG-17 and MiG-21. Vietnamese were not the same class as US pilots (in general), and MiG-19 was not easy to maintain and operate properly, therefore never much in favor of Soviet-bloc air forces. I dare to say that this was the best dogfighter of 50-ies and maybe even 60-ies, never fully appreciated by its makers and understood by its opponents. But the concept of fast turning, fast climbing two engine fighter with great T/W ration and hard hitting 30mm gun returned after more than 25 years in MiG-29... 08/19/2005 @ 12:44 [ref: 11030] |
| Mike G , NE | I love the MiG 19 Farmer - very stylish classic warplane
a logical step up from the MiG 17 - very goodlooking sleek russian fighter - Im glad the chinese copied it as the J6 they obviously knew as much as I do that this warplane rocks also the more MiG 19's around the better - also this is a really good site. 09/04/2002 @ 06:38 [ref: 5616] |
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