Yakovlev's Yak-38 doesn't hold a candle to the Harrier, it's most obvious Western counterpart, but that wasn't the point. The Yak-38, unlike the Harrier was developed especially to operate from the Kiev Class anti-submarine cruisers and provide an air support arm to their enormous range of weaponry. Although possessing short range, average performance and weapons carriage capability, the Yak-38 had an ingenious autoland-eject capability installed after many were initially lost during recovery aboard the carriers. Yak-38s first went to sea aboard the Kiev a year before the Sea Harrier, too, so there, suka!

Yakovlev Yak-38 Forger A 003
This is the third prototype of what its pilots called the 'Cheburashka', after a big eared cartoon character, the MiG-23 was a promising variable geometry fighter interceptor that was widely exported and has seen combat with Western types in various war zones round the world. Featuring a combined radar scope/head up display, the MiG-23 was a sophisticated replacement for the MiG-21. Although still in service with a handful of countries, including Syria, wherethey have been used during the civil war that has devastated the country, most MiG-23s have been replaced by the superior MiG-29.

Mikoyan Guryevich MiG-23-11-3