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Shenyang F-6 - MiG-19 ’Farmer’

Last update: 02.01.2022
North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6 North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6
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North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6 map

Between the end of the sixties and the end of the eighties, the People's Republic of China delivered more than a hundred Shenyang F-6 - Soviet MiG-19s - fighter aircraft to North Korea.

 

Korean Shenyang F-6 - MiG-19 ’Farmer’
order of battle after the turn of the millennium

 
North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6 order of battle

The MiG-19's armament was later upgraded with R-3S "AA-2 Athol" short-range, infrared homing air-to-air missile and S-5 and M-13 (for the BM-13 Katyusha launcher) air to ground rockets. The Korean MiG-19 ‘Farmer-C’ carried all missiles and rockets under its wings.
North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6 rocket

Three bigger - maybe soviet R-21 - air to ground rocket each wing of MiG-19 ‘Farmer’
North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6

The ORO-58 rocket pod and APU-13 launcher under the Shenyang F-6 wing

 

Later, four new hardpoints were built in the lower part of the Shenyang F-6 - MiG-19 ‘Farmer’ fuselage. The North-Korean Airforce used older Soviet M54 unguided, free-fall bomb type:
North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6 bomb

Korean former Soviet M54 free-fall bomb under MiG-19 ‘Farmer’
North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6 bomb

Four new hardpoints under the Shenyang F-6 - MiG-19 ‘Farmer’ fuselage

 

 

The three Korean MiG-19 regiments use MiG-15UTI  and a few Shenyang FT-6 trainer aircrafts. These two-seater Shenyang FT-6 training aircrafts arrived in North Korea in the late seventies or early eighties.
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Rare image of Korean Shenyang FT-6 trainer aircraft

 

 

 

Flight time has dropped dramatically since the 1990s. The engines of the Shenyang F-6/FT-6 - MiG-19 types are only ever get started on the ground. The last public appearance of the Korean MiG-19s was in 2016, on the Wonsan International Friendship Air Festival or Wonsan Air Festival.
North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6

Shenyang F-6 - MiG-19 regiment crew in 2020
North Korean MiG-19 Shenyang F-6

Korean Shenyang F-6 - MiG-19 take of in the early tenths

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