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on: 03-30-2007
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MiG-23 variable wing geometry jet interceptor. |
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3-30-2007 @ 03:25:05 PM |
Posted By : Sensekhmet |
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With updated electronics, it actually wasn't a bad plane. Problem was the development stopped in favour of newer craft and that it was more and more difficult to maintain the jets as the supply of spare parts dried up*. Soon they became your staple Russian outdated flying junk heaps, the kind you see blown up in large numbers in stupid air fighter movies. The result of all this is that finding an operational MiG-23 (or the attack version, MiG-27) is much more difficult than finding an operational MiG-21 which is an older design.
* Needless to say, Polish airforce was pretty pissed, when two kids stole a bathtub full of spares in mid 1990s. |
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