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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union. It is a third-generation jet fighter, alongside similar Soviet aircraft such as the Su-17 "Fitter".
MiG-7: Reserved for an unbuilt production version of the I-222 MiG-8 "Utka" 1945 Prototype Liaison aircraft MiG-9: Fargo 1946 Production Fighter, MiG's first jet, prototype called I-300, testbed for variants MiG-15: Fagot 1947 Production Fighter, world's most-produced jet, prototype called I-310 MiG-17: Fresco 1950 Production Fighter, based on ...
Mikoyan was the successor to the Soviet Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau (Микоя́н и Гуре́вич, МиГ; OKB-155 design office prefix MiG) founded in 1939 by aircraft designers Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Mikoyan were notable for their fighter and interceptor aircraft which became a staple of the Soviet Air Force and ...
includes foreign production. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21: 10,000+ 1959: Fishbed: includes foreign production and trainers Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 ~5,000: 1970: Flogger:
MiG-23 (1957; Izdeliye 63) Ye-2A was assigned the production designation MiG-23. It was to be much like the prototype, but with SRD-5M Baza-6 radar rangefinder and an SRO-2 Khrom IFF transponder, amongst other changes. Of twelve units planned for 1957, only five were built; these were powered by R11-300 turbojets (production version of RD-11 ...
In 1984, 12 MiG-23MF Frogger B fighter aircraft were imported. Subsequently, towards the end of the 1980s, 54 MiG-23ML Frogger G multi-role fighter aircraft and seven MiG-23UM Frogger C two-seat trainer aircraft were introduced. This expanded MiG-23 force was also dispatched to the Angola civil war and used in air combat.
Mikoyan-Gurevich 23-31 / Izdeliye 92 The Mikoyan-Gurevich 23-01 , aka Izdeliye 92 and (erroneously) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23PD , NATO reporting name Faithless , was a 1960s STOL fighter / attack aircraft, designed in the USSR , to fulfil a requirement for ground-attack and fighter aircraft able to operate from short runways.
'Sokol Aircraft-Building Plant') is a manufacturer of MiG fighters, based in Nizhny Novgorod. It was founded in 1932 and is also known as "Aviation Plant Nr. 21", named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze . During 45 years of serial production the plant manufactured about 13,500 combat aircraft.