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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.
Interceptor and reconnaissance-bomber, fastest mass-production aircraft MiG-27: Flogger-D/J 1970 Production Ground-attack aircraft derived from the MiG-23 MiG-29: Fulcrum 1977 Production Air superiority fighter and multi-role fighter MiG-29K: Fulcrum-D 1988 Production Carrier-based multi-role fighter, naval variant of the MiG-33/MiG-29M MiG-29M ...
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 MiG-23 and MiG-27: Flora: Yakovlev Yak-23: Flounder: Xian JH-7: Forger: Yakovlev Yak-38: Foxbat: ... List of NATO reporting names for fighter aircraft.
According to a 2021 report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency, the most modern assets of the KPAF are the MiG-29 and MiG-23, while the Su-25 ground attack and Ilyushin Il-28 bomber aircraft are also deemed by the DIA as having some capability.
Replacement aircraft initially included only MiG-17s and MiG-21s: in April 1974, Syria received the first two batches of MiG-23 fighter-bombers. Acquisition of additional aircraft from the USSR was stopped in 1975 due to differences of political nature between Damascus and Moscow. [15] An example of the MiG-23MSs that Syria received in 1974.
On the first day of the war, formations of Tu-16/22s, Su-20s, MiG-23s and MiG-21s, for a total of 166–192 aircraft, performed surprise airstrikes on 10 airbases of the Iranian Air Force, succeeding in destroying a large of number of fighter-bomber aircraft on the ground, but not enough to knock the Iranian Air Force out. [44]
Westland Wapiti, one of the first aircraft flown by the Royal Indian Air Force. ... Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 BN: Soviet Union: Fighter-bomber: 1981: 2009: 95 [18]