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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.
Iraqi MiG-23 jet fighters also fared even more poorly against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War, reportedly suffering upwards of fifty losses against Iranian F-14s, F-5s, and F-4s.
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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 ...
Authorities said the Soviet-designed MiG-23 crashed near an apartment complex near Belleville Road off I-94 at around 4:30 p.m. Twitter/ABC News 3 The video shows a fire ablaze where the jet crashed.
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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 agency described the aircraft as an MiG-23 jet and said the two individuals ejected just south of Willow Run Airport, near the city of Ypsilanti. Both the FAA and the National Transportation ...
The crash involving a MiG-23 demonstration occurred just after 4 p.m. during the Yankee Air Museum’s Thunder Over Michigan Air Show.
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.