Your opinion is full of prejudices.
Based on the very limited public data from that period…
Oh, those Russians…Thay have never realised how potent dogfighter was MiG-19 too …
Typical view…
Most of the VVS pilots who flew on the MiG-19 had WW.II. experience, many fought in Korea, spent hundreds of flight-hours on MiG-15 -17.
Obviously, You did not talk with any of them, you have no any idea what kind of ACT they had.
What do you think ?
Those pilots had only weather-recces, milk-runs on the MiG-19 ?
Did you see mid-70s Soviet AF combat manual for the MiG-21 ever ?
Or the nice album for “exercise 500-series” with fine drawings of the manoeuvres, speeds etc. ?
Of course that I saw them, but I havent seen them in practice.
Really ???
In this case, you can describe here easily the exercises No.500″O”(or No.500) & No.533
One of them is a “very-Russian” exercise while the other is including very similar details like a same ACT-sortie in the NATO.
One of them is famous because of a lot of brutal G’s, while the other is something completely different…
You can train one or few persons to get full capability from aircraft and loose some aircraft and pilots in proces, but to get it into squadron service is another story.
You compromise yourself.
Obviously > you did not see any of these documents.
If you had the chance ever to talk with a VVS MiG-21 pilot(and check his logbook) – who was in the “frontline” with full licence in the 70’s – you must to know, “exercise 500 series” was unit level ACT program in the 70’s.
Furthermore the Soviets handed over this program to the non-Soviet WP airforces from spring of 1972 > thousands of pilots can tell..
You have very hard statements without the knowledge of necessary data…
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