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Shenyang F-6/MiG-19S Farmer C the MiG-19 Farmer was the first superson ic fighter built in the for mer USSR. The MiG-19 prototype made its first flight in September 1953 and was placed into production in 1955. It was the Soviet Union s primary fighter during the last half of the 1950s. Possibly as many as 10,000 MiG-19s, in various version s, were built by the Soviet Union, China, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. About 2,000 have been built in the Peoples Republic of China. Many other countries used the MiG-19,including Cuba, North Vietnam, North Korea, Iraq, and most of the Warsaw Pact nation s. The Soviet Union phased out the MiG-19 in the early 1960s in favor of themore advanced MiG-21. However, the MiG-19 continued to be used by the other nation s for many more years.
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