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PLAAF officially removed from service Fighter J-6 - similar to the MiG-19
BEIJING, June 12 - RIA Novosti, Vasily Kashin. Air Force People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Saturday held a formal ceremony to bid farewell to the latest fighter J-6 - issued in China under license from copies of the Soviet MiG-19, whose production in the Soviet Union was discontinued in 1957.
Channel CCTV-"Sinven" showed the funeral of the latest fighter J-6. Now the most famous and massive Chinese military aircraft no longer is in service with the Chinese Air Force.
MiG-19 was adopted by the Soviet Air Force in 1955, but in the end of 1950 in connection with the Adopt the MiG-21 and Su-9 production of this fighter was discontinued. Latest MiG-19 in Soviet air defenses had disappeared before the start of 1970. Elsewhere, however, the fate of the aircraft was much more successful - a lot of MiG-19 was built in Czechoslovakia and China.
During the 1960-1980-s J-6 (the name was the MiG-19 in China) was the main combat aircraft of the PLA and the most famous product of the Chinese aviation industry. From 1961 to 1986 in China was made around 4000 of these aircraft. They formed the basis of the combat power of the Chinese aviation until the second half of 1990, widely exported to other developing countries, and participated in several conflicts including the war in Vietnam.
In the 1990's, China began its rapid modernization of its own air force, which resulted in displacement of J-6 with more modern fighters. Now on Air Force and naval air forces of China are the fighters of the Russian and Chinese production of Su-27, Su-30, analogs of the MiG-21 J-7 and J-8II, created by Russian designers of the J-10 and J-11 ( version of the Su-27).
http://www.rian.ru/defense_safety/20100612/245500395.html
BEIJING, June 12 - RIA Novosti, Vasily Kashin. Air Force People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Saturday held a formal ceremony to bid farewell to the latest fighter J-6 - issued in China under license from copies of the Soviet MiG-19, whose production in the Soviet Union was discontinued in 1957.
Channel CCTV-"Sinven" showed the funeral of the latest fighter J-6. Now the most famous and massive Chinese military aircraft no longer is in service with the Chinese Air Force.
MiG-19 was adopted by the Soviet Air Force in 1955, but in the end of 1950 in connection with the Adopt the MiG-21 and Su-9 production of this fighter was discontinued. Latest MiG-19 in Soviet air defenses had disappeared before the start of 1970. Elsewhere, however, the fate of the aircraft was much more successful - a lot of MiG-19 was built in Czechoslovakia and China.
During the 1960-1980-s J-6 (the name was the MiG-19 in China) was the main combat aircraft of the PLA and the most famous product of the Chinese aviation industry. From 1961 to 1986 in China was made around 4000 of these aircraft. They formed the basis of the combat power of the Chinese aviation until the second half of 1990, widely exported to other developing countries, and participated in several conflicts including the war in Vietnam.
In the 1990's, China began its rapid modernization of its own air force, which resulted in displacement of J-6 with more modern fighters. Now on Air Force and naval air forces of China are the fighters of the Russian and Chinese production of Su-27, Su-30, analogs of the MiG-21 J-7 and J-8II, created by Russian designers of the J-10 and J-11 ( version of the Su-27).
http://www.rian.ru/defense_safety/20100612/245500395.html