Editing Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 (section)

=== Middle East ===
====Egypt====
One of the first Egyptian MiG-19 units was the 15th Air Brigade, consisting of Nos 20 and 21 Squadrons, which became operational at [[RAF Fayid|Fayid]] with a forward location at Milayz in the early 1960s.{{sfn|Nicolle|Cooper|2004|p=8}}

In 1962, Egyptian MiG-19s saw some action in the ground-attack role during the [[North Yemen Civil War]]. The first reported air combat in the Middle East with the MiG-19 happened on 29 November 1966 when an [[Israeli Air Force]] (IAF) [[Dassault Mirage III]] shot down two Egyptian MiG-19s which were trying to intercept an Israeli reconnaissance [[Piper J-3 Cub]] in Israeli airspace. The first MiG was destroyed with a [[R.530]] radar-guided missile at a range of less than 1.6 km (one mile), marking the first aerial kill for the French-made missile. The second MiG-19 was dispatched with cannon fire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/1966/11/30/archive/israeli-pilot-shoots-down-two-egyptian-soviet-made-mig-jets|title=Israeli Pilot Shoots Down Two Egyptian Soviet-made Mig Jets|date=November 30, 1966}}</ref>

Around 80 MiG-19s were in service with Egypt during the [[Six-Day War]] in June 1967, but more than half of them were destroyed on the ground during the opening Israeli airstrikes of [[Operation Focus]]. Israeli pilots, however, did find the MiG-19 a potentially dangerous adversary because of its performance, maneuverability, and heavy armament.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S Farmer-D |url=https://www.skytamer.com/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-19S.html#:~:text=Israeli%20pilots%2C%20however%2C%20did%20find,defense%20tasks%20of%20Egypt's%20interior.}}</ref>

Following the war, the Egyptians reorganized their surviving MiG-19 fleet, and assigned them to the air defense of Egypt's interior. The Soviet Union did not supply Egypt with any additional MiG-19s as replacements for those destroyed in the Six-Day War, but Egypt might have received some from Syria and Iraq, so that by the end of 1968 there were more than 80 MiG-19s in service with the [[Egyptian Air Force]]. The aircraft also saw combat during the [[War of Attrition]]; in one engagement on 19 May 1969, a MiG-19 engaged two Israeli Mirages, shooting down one with cannon fire while the other escaped.{{sfn|Nicolle|Cooper|2004|p=27}}

====Iraq====
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{{cite web 
|url=http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/topic-815.html
|title=MiG-19 - FARMER
|website=Military Russia
|date=10 September 2014
|access-date=8 August 2024
|language=ru
}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2024}} [https://www.skytamer.com/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-19S.html#:~:text=Israeli%20pilots%2C%20however%2C%20did%20find,defense%20tasks%20of%20Egypt's%20interior. but later sold most of them]<ref>
{{cite web 
|url=https://techno-story.ru/articles/aircrafts/580-mig19?ysclid=lzlua194td924521520
|title=MiG-19: On the path to supersonic flight
|website=Техноистория
|date=
|access-date=8 August 2024
|language=ru
}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2024}} (a couple remaining in local museums), though a few remaining airframes did see some action against the Kurds in the 1960s.<ref>
{{cite web 
|url=https://airwar.ru/enc/fighter/mig19s.html?ysclid=lzlujs3gvp370052871
|title=MiG-19C
|website=Уголок неба
|date=
|access-date=8 August 2024
|language=ru
}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2024}}

====Syria====
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The [[Syrian Air Force]] used MiG-19s in the [[North Yemen Civil War|Yemen War]].<ref name="Sunayama">{{cite book |last1=Sunayama |first1=Sonoko |title=Syria and Saudi Arabia : collaboration and conflicts in the oil era |date=2007 |publisher=Tauris Academic Studies |location=London |isbn=978-1845113025 |page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZANQEAAAQBAJ&dq=syria+MiG-19&pg=PA30 |access-date=27 November 2021}}</ref>