Mikoyan Gurevich Aircraft Family(Mig-23m) (3 Viewers)
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- #122
Can you show me these photos?
A PM sent.
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- #124
Yes, this badge indicates the very well maintained aircraft.
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- #126
Are there any photos "OSTATNI LOT"?
If you maen a close up view of the inscription I haven't seen such ones.
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- #128
Wurger, is there any information about the Polish MiG-23 #460? I would especially like to know as much as possible about the strange, in my opinion, paint scheme (I assume that this is its own Polish color). and the AIR SHOW POZANIA emblem.
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- #129
Do you mean the one? If you do, the white bands were used as an additional ID marking for the exercise "Orli Szpon 97" in 90'.
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- #131
I mean why do some side numbers have a white border and some don't
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Now I understand. OK. The white outline was added in the regiment in order to see the number better. Initially these numbers were of the red only but the colour wasn't noticable easy. So the numbers got the white outline. In a couple of pictures you may notice them with and without the outline because these images were taken at the different period of time. Here is the example ...
soon after the overhauling in the USSR ...
and later in the regiment ...
The MiG-23MF, s/n. 0390220460 .... made 05.08.1981 in USSR. Deliverd to the Poland on 25.09.1981. Servicing in the 28 PLM in Słupsk from 26.10.1981. The last flight on 08.09.1997. Removed from the register of the Polish AF equipment on June 12, 2001 and and transferred to the Military Property Agency. The aircraft is exhibited at the University of Technology in Rzeszów. https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/5905369
The camouflage of her isn't strange and the colours aren't the own Polish ones. . The plane was overhauled in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from 1990 to 31.05.1991. And the camouflage is typical for all Polish MiG-23 renovated there.
Regarding the " AIR SHOW POZANAŃ" emblem .... it is a kind of a commemorative badge that was applied on the MiG-23MF that were sent to the Ławica airfield in Poznań in order to participate in the International Air Show on August 25th 1991.
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- #134
Wurger, is there any information about the MiG-23MF aircraft of the Warsaw Pact countries?
I would like to know what exactly was said about the export of the MiG-23 to Europe
I'm not sure what you mean. Could you be more accurate?
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- #136
Why did the USSR export the MiG-23 to Europe?
I'm not sure if the answer can be found at all. Perhaps it can be found in the book of Yefim Gordon and Ketith Dexter book "MiG-23/27 Flogger Soviet Swimng-wing Fighter/ Strike aircraft" by the Aerofax or other ones for the aircraft. I think the main reason for that was the USSR was the only source for a modern stuff for all countries belonged to the Warsaw Pact at that time. Here in Poland it was considered a very good plane. The Polish Air Force was going to buy the number of MiG-23s for three or four fighter regiments. Unfortunately the economical sytuation in Poland allowed to purchase 36 fighter MiG-23 and 6 UB ones only.
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- #138
Which personally surprises me greatly. Discussions about the qualities and effectiveness of the MiG-23 were even held among their pilots, and as far as I could see, the range of opinions was quite wide. Everyone agreed that the MiG-23MLD was very good and in many ways better than the MiG-29, but before the ML, all modifications had so many significant shortcomings that their value seems somewhat overestimated. There were particularly many complaints about the large number of restrictions when launching long-range missiles and the unreliable operation of the radar (on the MLD, the radar was already considered as very reliable). I heard the opinion that the pilot did not see the marker where the missile itself was aimed - he only saw the radar marker, so if the missile captured a false target, the pilot did not know about it. Some pilots claimed that the early versions of the MiG-23 were "flying logs" and that flying them was no fun at all, unlike the MiG-21, for example. But there are also those who deny all this and consider even the MiG-23M to be an excellent fighter. In general, I still do not have a clear idea of the real performance of the MiG-23.
Polish 23MFs differed little from the Soviet 23Ms, so it is difficult for me to explain their high ratings from Polish pilots.
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- #140
Вургэр, вы знаете, в какие цвета были окрашены самолеты польских ВВС?
