Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 Farmer - A Short History

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 Farmer was a single-seat jet twin-engine jet fighter produced by the Soviet Union. It was developed to improve upon the MiG-15 and the MiG-17, and it became the worlds first mass-produced supersonic aircraft.

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"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19P ’04 blue’ (38048417571).jpg" by Alan Wilson, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., License: CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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