Mikoyan MiG-19

The MiG-19, NATO name Farmer, was a Soviet second-generation, single-seat, twin-engined fighter and the first Soviet production aircraft able to fly supersonic in level flight. The Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau began work in 1950 on a fighter with more range than the MiG-15 and MiG-17, and the SM-9 prototype impressed enough that it was ordered into production on 17 February 1954 before factory testing had properly started. Its tail was reworked into an all-moving slab in the MiG-19S production type. It was used by the Soviet Union and then by China, and over North Vietnam it mostly met the F-4 Phantom II and F-105 Thunderchief.