The MiG-23 never failed as a fighter, the MiG-27 was a paralell project. The MiG-23MLD was the latest and last version, with upgraded radar, more poverful engine, redesigned airframe and smaller weight.

What a beast! Reminds me of the days when I used to go to Cheshnegirovo airbase to watch the Mig-23BNs fly. Imagine two of these taking off simultaneously.

This is the first MiG-23 I see with tandem cockpit. I love the sound of that Tumansky afterburning turbojet.

The Mig-27 came before the Su-25 and was like the Su-17. It had different intakes, avionics, could carry guided weapons and had more armor. It was a major upgrade to the Mig-23BN(ground attack Mig-23).

When the afterburner ignites you can see the aircraft literally being punched forward! It's said that it can go as fast as 900kts at very low altitudes and be the fastest single engine fighter, which is unbelievable for it's age...! Superb vid of this aircraft!

Jet engine heaven! Gotta love the MiG 23. Great audio in this clip. 5 stars.

seems like this video has the Highest QUALITY SOUND afterburner crackle ( check at 0:53 onwards ) and bass out of anything I've heard on YT so far in 2017! Shut-down sounds amazingly clear for a 11 year old video fidelity! GREAT JOB!!!!

Hell yes. Awesome vid plus no music to cover up the sound. The boom of the afterburner kicking in is all the music I need. I'm American, and I've always thought the Mig-23 is beautiful. Unfortunately, we don't get to see foreign (especially Russian) aircraft that much. All you guys from other countries need to upload more vids! Preferably without music.

The variable wing was not for a shorter takeoff distance (although better takeoff and landing performances had been obtained), but for an higher maneuverability in a dogfight. The Mig-23 borns for to face NATO aggressors in Europe, above all the F-4 Phantom and the Mig-23 outmaneuvered the F4 in any combat aspect.

Here in Hungary, when a journalist in the late eighties went to made a small report from our MiG-23s, he went to the engine test site. When they started to check the afterburner regime, he dropped his camera and started run, because he thought, it is an explosion. Large flame, huge sound.

I love this place. i love the huge dorsal fin on it and the configuration for the undercarraige. she is absolutely gorgeous from all views.

I loved every minute of it. I went to Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm and loaded 352,500 lbs. of live munitions in a month and a half. We loved it because, there's no more training. Time for the real deal. When the jets came back empty, that was real satisfaction. We loved our jobs.

Beautiful!! Really nice footage and amazing plane!

damn that intense sound and rush makes me want to fly one of those mig 23

Excellent video with good sound, What an awesome plane!

one of the most beautiful aircraft

Excellent video! Superb aircraft for its time.

Just Beautiful

Very nice! Thanks!

Wish he would bring that to EAA show in WI sometime...

I think the MiG 21 is the best looking plane in the world.

Nice shooting Chris. I wish I'd have gotten the taxi-in! See you around this year.

What a beauty!

Very nice! 👍✈️

There was suppose to be another one flying for the Cold War Air Museum in Lancaster Texas. I did some avionics work to it earlier this year, but I am doubtful it will ever happen. They had mechanical issues with the engine (ran it out of fuel and seized up one of the fuel pumps) and had to pull the engine. I have since heard that they got the engine installed and running but had other issues with the plane and apparently some personnel issues within the museum so I doubt it will ever happen.

The Cold War Air Museum at Lancaster Municipal airport in Texas is finishing putting together a Mig 23. It will be flying this summer.

amazing plane

It's an R-29 in the Mig-23UB, the R-35 is on the Mig-23MLD

Yes, and the MiG-23MF had the R-29BD-300, the MiG-23BN/MIG-27 had the R-29BS-300, our (hungarian)Su-22M3 had the same R-29BS-300 and the MiG-23ML/MLA/MLD versions had the R-35F-300 engines.

Anyone know the status of This particular aircraft

The marshaller is so bad-ass, he's not even wearing ear muffs! I'm fortunate enough to see MiG27s in action with our Air Force. Lovely stuff!

Cool plane and nice quality video, The Mig23 is a Classic Cold War fighter.

LEGENDARY POWER!

That huge Turmanski afterburner is very impressive...I bet the pilot keeps a close eye on his fuel status on that aircraft.

52 years ago flew over West Berlin and broke a few windows

It's always fun to see a surplussed warbird at an airshow, be it American-made or from the other side.

It was all external. I worked on the"F" models. The internal bay was used to seat the Pavetac system. The lazer emitted for LGB's. As for flying in one, no, I never got that lucky. That was an honor rarly given to ground crews.

Does anyone know if this bird is still flying in the US?

@dafty97 depends on which MiG-23 against which F-16. Both were produced in uncountable variants over decades, and exported widely, with each client purchasing different capabilities. A figher aircraft is a system (containing several subsystems, the most important of them being the pilot) within a system - the national anti-aircraft defense, including GCI, AWACS, other aircraft, SAM, etc.

Did you see the flame from those afterburners wow

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 (Gwalior): India and America today finished a joint Air Force exercise in Gwalior in, which the top pilots from the two countries matched their skills against each other. While the all-powerful US Air Force had an easy run in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Indian top guns amazingly shot them out of the sky.

Holy shit that's a powerful engine

Yes I know it, but the USAF MiG-23 was an egyiptian MiG-23M Flogger-E with R-27F2M engine and MiG-21bis radar. The two seater UB version used this engine, it less poverful than the MF version R-29BD-300 and ML/MLA/MLD version R-35-300. The R-35-300's characteristic was really impressive except the specific fuel consuption.

@vai2iant how do you know it is mig35?

there was an update program by Mikoyan-Gurevich to upgrade the radar and the avionics and add JHMCS (at early '90) but was rejected due to high cost

yea... beautiful and unique...

so bad ass when the burner kicks in

@dafty97 2nd example: Soviet MiG-23 (late production, fully equipped) should have an edge over Pakistani F-16, but several of them were shot down during the Soviet Afghanistan war, after straying into Pakistani airspace.

If you truly want it bad enough, my friend, anything is possible. Unfortunatly, you won't fly an F-111. They're all retired to the boneyard, except the Aussies still fly a few of them, but they're on their way out, too. Really was a great jet. Look on my home page and see the F-111 videos I've got there, and also see the weapons guys doing what I used to do. Pretty cool stuff. I wish you the best of luck, my friend! Go out and chase your dreams, man!

She just about blew my computer's speakers!

Does this MiG 23 hav the original Tumanski R-29 (I think its the r-29!!!) engines or is it using the underpowered export Tumanski engines?

beautiful airplane ever...

the sound of it is just orgasmic.... my ears are in heaven lol

Beautiful airplane.

MIG-23s are not bad, the problem is that they were designed as long range interceptors to defend the enormous soviet territory from long range incoming strike aircraft, but they were used in combat only by foreign countries as air superiority fighters. It never performed the combat role it was designed for. Of course, as a tactical air superiority fighter, the mig-21 was much more on his territory.

Death A MiG-23 BN in East German markings On 26 April 1984 Bond, who was about to retire, made a farewell visit to "an Air Force Systems Command unit"[6] believed to have been the 6513th Test Squadron, Red Hats, at Groom Lake. The Red Hats, like the 4477th TES Red Eagles based at Tonopah Test Range, clandestinely operated Soviet aircraft.[7] On a previous visit to Groom,[8] Bond had flown the secret YF-117A prototype. The MiG-23 was known as YF-113 in US service and, along with a greater number of MiG-21s, was part of a collection of Soviet-built aircraft that the 4477th flew.[9] Bond insisted on flying the MiG-23 BN fighter-bomber[nb 1] after a cursory briefing over the cockpit rail, even though it was considered a difficult aircraft and pilots usually received several hours of ground instruction before flying it.[6][12] On his second high-speed flight, he was flying at 40,000 feet and over Mach 2,[nb 2] and had left the T-38 chase plane that was flying with him far behind, when a hydro-mechanical inhibitor activated, preventing him from disengaging the afterburner. It was designed to avoid sudden shut-downs at high speed that could damage the Tumansky R-29 engine, or even cause it to explode and destroy the aircraft. At such speeds, with the wings fully swept back to 72°, the MiG had very limited pitch authority and was inclined to yaw and roll. Bond lost control,[nb 3] made a distress call ("I gotta get out of here") and was then killed in the ejection, when the slipstream broke his neck and shredded the canopy of his parachute. The aircraft crashed in the desert, diving in at a 60° angle[13] and impacting on what is now known as Jackass Flats, part of Area 25 that was still contaminated from NERVA nuclear rocket testing years before.[15] Bond's body was discovered by a USAF sergeant on his way to work, who removed the rank insignia from Bond's flight suit with a pocket knife before going to get help.[16] Aftermath The KM-1 ejection seat used in the MiG-23 The USAF would not confirm or deny that Bond was flying a MiG when he died,[17][18] and stated that Bond was flying "an Air Force specially modified test craft",[17] but it leaked the information to a journalist, Fred Hoffman.[15][19] When Time magazine reported on the accident and the rumors of the US MiG program, the USAF was forced to reveal that it was flying Soviet aircraft.[20] There were fears that the publicity would also lead to the exposure of the F-117 program, which was still secret and was also based at Tonopah, but this did not happen.[15][21] The accident investigation was chaired by General Gordon E. Williams.[16] The investigation report was kept secret, but one pilot who had seen it commented unsympathetically: "He should have read the flight manual."[8] The report was required reading for American MiG pilots in years to come.[16] There was some annoyance that Bond had written off an irreplaceable national asset.[16] Work continued to make the KM-1 ejection seat used in the MiG-23 safe and reliable; another USAF pilot, Mark Postai, had been killed in an attempted ejection from a MiG-23 in 1982.[22] Maintaining the Soviet ejection seats included reverse engineering the pyrotechnic cartridges which fired them, as these had a relatively short life and had to be replaced regularly as the chemicals degraded.[23] Pilots over the age of 45 were not normally supposed to fly solo in fast jets, and Bond was 54 at the time of his fatal crash.[17][19] Lieutenant Colonel James Tiley, commander of the Red Hats, was reassigned in July, though it is a matter of debate whether this was related to Bond's death.[16] Bond was buried in Ashland, Mississippi, and was survived by his wife Betty and four children.[24] A memorial stone to him was placed in the desert where he crashed.[21] Major Thomas E. Drake, an experienced MiG-23 pilot who frequently said "This airplane will kill you today if you let it",[25] emphasized the importance of good preparation to Colonel James Evans, who was preparing to learn to fly the Soviet types, by referring to "the General Bobby Bond Memorial Checkout: two take-offs, one landing, and a fatal ejection."[26] The 4477th was inactivated in July 1990[27] but it is likely that the USAF continues to operate Russian aircraft clandestinely, including MiG-29s and Su-27s.[28]

it says in the description next to the video ;)

Remember how i saw those planes taking off from Pärnu airfield, then Soviet military airbase. I guess it was no more than 1974-1976. And it was like. WOW! Deafening sound when they did climb up on very steep angle. Now i know they were Mig-23 cause a shape they had...

That takeoff certainly sounds super loud; I'd estimate around 175 decibels or so. Nothing to be near without earplugs/earmuffs.

NOW it is the only one. #8107 Crashed yesterday :'( !!!

Nice, there is no much mig-23 videos out there

Is this jet still based out of New Castle, DE?

@dafty97 About maneuverability, I doubt it. About top speed and ceiling, sure. Also, much more stable than the F-16 aerodynamically. The 23 requires less training than the 16.

A couple of seconds on the T/O flight.

Mig with Phazotron (Spear) airborne radar, which is capable of simultaneously tracking 8 targets and engage 2 of the 8 target tracked ,missile such as Vympel R-27. Russian advertise has claimed that this version is equivalent to early F-16. It performed well against F-15 and F-16s of the USAF during Indo-US joint air exercises, surprising American pilots Indian pilots claimed the "kill ratio" was 4:1 in their favour

DragonlordXV:perhaps you are correct about the 2 F-4's and an A-4 Skyhawk being shot down. However,The original A-4 was ordered in 1952 and the first F-4 flew first in the late 1950's. More importantly, both aircraft are primary attack aircraft for the IAF (bomb trucks) not for pure dogfighting.The Mig-23 was first seen in 1967 and although defined as a strike fighter..can only carry 2000kg of weapons! To me it compared well with the retired USAF F-105, a fast aircraft that cannot dogfight.

People have no problem judging the F-14 based on four shootdowns in two different combats. They consider it an excellent plane. The MiG-23 wasn't perfect, but the ultimate judge of a combat plane is not how well the pilots like flying it, or how well executed is, but whether it could win the war it is built to win. In the context of the Cold War, I think the MiG-23 would have been a huge problem for the West. Its ease of construction and low cost are just as important as other characteristics.

@dafty97 i think u mean MIG 29. i heard some stories mig 29 was beating f16 but idk if i need to believe.

Damnn those mig23... 15 yeras god blees time

What the price of your plane ? because i want to buy Mig-29 I can buy this aircraft at less than 100.000 USD so i don't know if it's a good plane ? and sincerly i prefer 2 engine ! (now i have single engine plane). The fuel consumption is 2000 l/h ? No ? 2x more that L-39

@dafty97 No. The Mig 23 is comparable to the F-4 Phantom.

old school!

@freekuwait1000

9 жыл бұрын

Sinkies

This is up for sale, I wish I had the money to buy it...

I have never seen mig 23s. I saw mig 29 only.

Nice afterburner trail

hermoso

daamn, that noise!

What you said about the MiG was true, but I can guarantee you no recorded F-15s were shot down. Otherwise, people would know about it. The only reason that F-18 went down was because the AWACS operator was not doing his job properly and never gave him clearance to engage. This resulted in the Foxbat firing a missile and despite the pilot's best efforts (and the best efforts of the aircraft) the missile hit.

nice hobby ... same with me

Hear that afterburner kick in !Do not underestimate the russians.

Love it , great aircraft .

@AndresLopez-ve3io

3 жыл бұрын

It is not a great aircraft, believe me it is a "flying coffin", that´s what we called it.

@Pavlo2175

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndresLopez-ve3io Did you pilot the mig 23 ?

@AndresLopez-ve3io

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlo2175 Yes, I did, 35-38 years ago.

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Is that Dave C. flying? MiG-23 = 800 gallons/hour nominal, 70 gallons a MINUTE in burner.

thats 127 kN afterburner in your face

@DrittAdrAtta

5 жыл бұрын

More like 122 kN or even less.I think the two seater had a less powerful engine than the single seater. The ML/MLD variant had the upgraded engine providing 127 kN. Still, the word is it would outaccelerate the f-16 at around transsonic and supersonic speed.

@DrittAdrAtta

4 жыл бұрын

@Lovricc c Do you have anything, even remotely intelligent, to say?

@DrittAdrAtta

4 жыл бұрын

@Lovricc c Get a life, troll.

Hmmm...perhaps. It would be insane to be without ear protection!

UB version

@dafty97 1st example: US F-16 (late production, fully equipped) should be vastly superior to Iraqi MiG-23 (export versions with downgraded avionics and equipment), however during the 1991 Gulf War both were equally unable to score an air-to-air-victory, though not for the lack of trying: for instance, USAF F-16 fired 36 Sidewinders, without scoring a hit!

Pilots flying it out of the Nellis Test range were,WRONG? Look for many years the USAF gave the Mig 23 Flogger a lot of respect. I believe they even referred to it as the "poor man's" F4 Phantom,a pretty good compliment back in the 1970's. However upon receiving a black market Mig 23 to give our pilots authentic training over Nevada,the report card on this aircraft from Aggressor Sq. pilots was not good. They didn't even feel safe flying it. The article was in Air Force Mag. a few years ago.

MiG-23 was NEVER supposed to be equivalent to the F-16 .. LoL !! If anything, it was a Russian answer to the BVR capability of the F-4, a capability the earlier MiG-21 lacked. Like the F-4, however, the MiG-23 was optimized for high-speed, beyond visual range combat - NOT for traditional dogfighting. A pair of Libyan MiG-23 were shot down by a pair of Egyptian MiG-21 when they allowed the encounter to close to a range where the manoeuvrability advantage of the MiG-21 became the deciding factor.

@lucaschmidt8913

8 жыл бұрын

+George W. Bush The former US president must know

@JuanPerez-co9nd

6 жыл бұрын

The Cubans in Angola with MIG-23ML shot down one South African MIrage F1, and the other escape from the fry in time!.

@19Koty96

6 жыл бұрын

*F-16 originally lacked any BVR capability. Yes, Original MiG-23 was an answer to F-4. The later marks of MiG-23 however were perfectly fine in close combat, given they were flown properly.

@user-lm7tx2fb9k

6 жыл бұрын

George W. Bush وو

@DrittAdrAtta

5 жыл бұрын

@@19Koty96 Absolutely. The last Soviet incarnation of the 23 - the MLD was cabable of sustained 8,5G turns and sported the R-73 missile with helmet mounted cueing system.

Looks like a copy of the f 4 phantom don't y'all think?

Not ear muffs, but what about ear plugs? Those can't be seen.

i like f117 and mig 23

I like the red star on the tail. paint it in camo scheme and you can go around playing pranks on NATO pilots ;)

If its ML or MLA, MLD version is pritty powerful, 130 KN energy

Russians realized MIG 23 was outdated and realized it might be a good fighter bomber. So they created MIG 27. The russians didn't like the configuration. They have a prefence to SU 24.

especially since its engines where designed for power, unlike airliner engines.

The MiG-23 can actually defeat the MiG-29. I read that MiG-23s were used as aggressor aircraft in testing against the Fulcrum, and while the pilots of the Fulcrums were relatively new pilots, and the Flogger pilots were veterans, it's still something that this "out of date" jet can defeat a more modern fighter. They used hit and run tactics, similar to how AVG(Flying Tigers) P-40 Warhawks took on the more nimble Japanese Zeroes over China in WW2.

I know, man, I was just trying to be funny. I used to load bombs on F-111's. I was only making comparison to the swing-wings!

thats why f 16 pilots that flew it said it completely out accelerated the f 16 and f 18. Not as good, but def a rocket.

omg that's aircraft look small .