MiG-23 Flogger: The Soviet Fighter that Failed to Impress The MiG-23 is one awful fighter, and the U.S. Air Force thankfully has no fighter jet that can match its terrible history.

What You Need to Know: Developed in the late 1960s to counter U.S. aircraft like the F-4 Phantom II and the F-105 Thunderchief, the Soviet Mikoyan MiG-23 “Flogger” was designed to succeed the ...

For more than one decade, the Soviet Union’s MiG-23 represented the primary frontline fighter of the Warsaw Pact. Given the moniker Flogger, the variable-geometry jet became the most produced ...

The Persian Gulf War was a showcase of the combined arms capability of the United States. Yet, Iraq still had a formidable ...

Pilots ejected from a MiG-23 fighter plane shortly before it crashed during the Thunder Over Michigan show on Sunday, video shows.

Two people ejected from a jet that later crashed during the Thunder Over Michigan air show on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

Both pilots ejected from a Soviet-designed MiG-23 fighter plane before it crashed during the Thunder Over Michigan air show in Ypsilanti on Sunday.

The pilot and passenger sitting tandem in the MiG-23 jet were operating the plane as part of the Thunder Over Michigan air show on Sunday.

The crash involving a MiG-23 demonstration occurred just after 4 p.m. during the Yankee Air Museum’s Thunder Over Michigan Air Show.

A MiG-23 fighter jet trainer was destroyed over the weekend after the pilots ejected in mid-flight. The fighter was the only privately-owned, flyable MiG-23 worldwide. The crash, which occurred ...