The success of the kit prompted Testors to quickly release a kit of an equally-mythical Soviet counterpart , the Mikoyan MiG-37.When the actual aircraft was publicly revealed in 1988 , it was called the F-117 Nighthawk ( an odd designation , although Joe Baugher asserts that the first manuals had the meaningless number `` F-117 '' on the cover , and the designation stuck , despite the apparent connection to the old series of fighter numbers ) .
Mikoyan MiG-37 is the Soviet counterpart to the aircraft F-19 .