FLOGGER FIGHTERS

The MiG-23 became an essential Warsaw Pact combat asset during the last two decades of the Cold War, but it wasn’t without its issues, as Guy Holroyd explains…

IN FOCUS MiG-23

The unusually modern weapons load on this aircraft pinpoints it as the MiG-23-98 demonstrator (a modified MLD), which did the rounds at defence shows in the late 1990s. AA-12 Adder missiles sit under the wing gloves, while AA-11 Archers populate the forward under-fuselage rails.
While undoubtedly posed for the propaganda photographer, this excellent period view of a Soviet MiG-23M Flogger-B demonstrates the type’s maximum wing sweep. (All Key Collection unless stated)

Angolan MiG-23ML ‘C454’

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