Protest in Pakistan due to Imran Khan’s Arrest has taken another turn. Yesterday Protesters in Mianwali burned yp the Chinese F-6 Shenyang which was kept as a display. Pakistan is on fire with protests, and a lit-up F-6 Shenyang fighter jet has become a symbol of the situation. The destruction of the F-6 supersonic fighter jets is considered blasphemy by aviation historians.
Protesters in a rage entered an Army base in Punjab Province in Punjab and set fire to the F-6 Shenyang aircraft. The Shenyang was the First Aircraft to be brought by the PAF from the Chinese and after that, only the relations between the duo started to get a tone.
Shenyang F-6 aka J-6
The export version of the F-6, based on the design of the Russian MiG-19, served as the PAF’s “workhorse” for many years. The F-6, or MiG-19, was the former Soviet Union’s first supersonic fighter aircraft and a result of the Cold War arms race. During the Cold War, military technology advanced at a tremendous pace. The MiG-19 was the world’s first mass-produced supersonic fighter aircraft. F-6 is the Chinese designation for license-produced MiG-19s.
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NATO dubbed the plane the “Farmer.” The Soviets halted manufacturing in 1960, having built a total of 2500 aircraft, whilst the embryonic Chinese military industry, facing a resource shortage, manufactured the aircraft until 1981, producing twice as many as the Soviets. The aircraft was exported by China to Albania, Bangladesh, Egypt, Cambodia, Tanzania, Pakistan, and Vietnam. Pakistan’s F-6 fighter jets saw heavy battles during its 1971 conflict with India, and they also flew against US fighter jets over Vietnam.
At its peak, the F-6’s twin engines could create 15000 lbs of thrust each and climb higher than Mt. Everest in a matter of seconds, providing amazing vistas of the earth’s curvature. The enormous thrust was caused by the aircraft’s massive fuel consumption, which limited the aircraft’s flight time to 25-55 minutes. It was an enormously powerful machine that entered the inventory of the Pakistan Air Force after the United States imposed an arms embargo on both Pakistan and India following the 1965 India-Pakistan war.
Well, at last, we all know the Chinese and their machinery. When Wg Cdr Abhinandan Varthaman took off an F-16 from a MiG-21 Bison, we could possibly tell that it was not the machine but the pilot, and even if the Shenyang was quite helpful to Pakistan in the 1971 war, it has seen its fate now.
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