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The Soviet military developed its first swing-wing fighter in the late 1960s as an answer to the American F-4 Phantom. The Soviet Mikoyan MiG-23...
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The Soviet military developed its first swing-wing fighter in the late 1960s as an answer to the American F-4 Phantom. The Soviet Mikoyan MiG-23...
Summary and Key Points: The Soviet-built MiG-23 “Flogger,” developed in the late 1960s, aimed to challenge Western air dominance with high-speed interception and multirole...
A Soviet-era MiG-23 suffered a catastrophic mishap halfway around the world, crashing during the conclusion of an airshow in Michigan.
Russia, during the Cold War, built some pretty tough fighter jets that the U.S. military and NATO clearly feared and tried to counter. Even today, while the war...
Pity the poor MiG-23 “Flogger” jet fighter. Built to replace the older – as in 1955 vintage – MiG-21 Fishbed, and intended to contend...
Russia today has quite a few powerful fighter jets like the Su-35 and new stealth planes like the Su-57 Felon. However, the old Soviet...
While the Soviet Union’s MiG-23 was designed to go toe-to-toe with American and European third-generation fighters and replace the aging MiG-21, it is not...
MiG-23 Flogger: Russia’s Flying Disaster? – Developed in the late 1960s in response to the United States military’s McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Republic...