MiG-23

[Ouija121085]

Russian aerospace engineering man... the best.

[Ouija121085]

Like all Russian figherjets MiG23 is a fucking monster.

[SAMFICOM]

Guys, you rock!

[n74jw]

I would LOVE to visit this museum and work there. I could add much expertise in working with this aircraft.

[cessnaclub]

WOW-This is one serious machine. Is there any still in action at all for airshows etc etc?

[poodleslayer]

*Pneumatics,* not "numatics."

[coldwarair]

@poodleslayer You are definitely correct we noticed this after posting. Thank-you for your comment!

[coldwarair]

@poodleslayer The video with the corrected spelling is labeled. MiG-23 (HD Quality) please check it out from our channel.

[lanunselat]

This Aircraft should give american fighters a run for their money, but those f-14s can whack two of the libyan MIG-23 with ease.

[Ouija121085]

@lanunselat MiG23 is an excellent plane as every single russian fighter jet. Difference is that export version of MiG23 is not the actual Russian MiG23 it has weaker engines, avionics, armament etc.. but its still and excellent aircraft. The problem is that arabs were not trained very well on them, and lacked missiles which were at the time modern. Plus they fought numerically stronger enemy.

[JanuszGRE]

Jeden z bodaj czterech MiG-23 MF, które w Rędzikowie kupił jakiś Jankes.

[kickniko]

10000 metric.... tons of thrust??? Guy, take a pencil and calculate.

[amartinjoe]

that is an impressve aircraft; rugged......Russian style! 

[humpingbird]

Look like a flying tank! Rugged stuff ... can't believe it can fly

[ungureanumarian12]

you wanna fly with that????

[Antifaith29]

Ok never mind, ive found it. Was the Mig 25.

watch?v=izIClWYKK1o

Pretty impressive video if anyone is interested.

[Antifaith29]

Excuse my ignorance on the subject, i find it interesting but as im only just starting to get interested i know very little about it. Anyway , on to my question , I remember watching a video saying that one of the Migs could get an amazing altitude, like close to space kind of altitude. Is that correct and if so wich plane was it?

Thanks in advance anyone that answers.

Great video uploader.

[CMAPAB]

LOUDERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[MegaViscious]

Russia aing got shit on the US so bring it

[sultros]

John, What you are doing is amazing!! I had no clue till tonight you existed and you are in Dallas. I have to come check it out. Do you allow guests to sit in the cockpit on slow days?

[tiocride]

Great job!!

[tf2cheats]

the 2.35 speed should be seen as max safe speed. I once talked to an ex GDR MIG23 pilot who knew of a soviet pilot in east germany who had a damaged speedometer and noticed his wings close to melting away. On the ground engineers figured out the MIG 23 must have flown at mach 2.7-2.8, the engine was that powerful.

[MarioTakovTV]

MiG-23,MIG-25,MIG-31 was one of the best looking fighters ever made !!Slava na Russkite bratia!! I'M BULGARIAN keep up the good work MIG-23 is bad ass ALEX JONES AUSTEN,TX

[Slavsun74]

Заебали на своём "американском" трындеть ,Говорите по русски ,обсуждая СОВЕТСКИЙ истребитель !!! )))

[noonsight2010]

Am I correct in believing MiG fighters all have odd number designations?

Somebody has posted a "MiG 28 fighter" on YouTube and i don't think it's right - perhaps they've been watching Top Gun!

[napornik]

"You have to take a Phd course to operate the clock"

BAWAHAHAAHHAHAHHA!!! Too funny!

[jonesy97]

Exellent job on the presentation. Being that is's a B model, I'll bet you're dying to occupy one of those seats one day when the restoration is complete. Are you restoring it to airworthy conditions? Will she fly when finished?

[JDM96ACCORD]

awesome video thanks for posting

[LeadHammer]

Nice walkaround, but the cameraman did a horrible job.

[coldwarair]

@LeadHammer- As stated before. The Video itself was shot on the fly without the proper amount of time to prepare. Our Concern is quality. So next time we will have better camera work. We can assure you. Thankyou

[raymondgoubet]

@coldwarair Well it's not that bad at all. I really enjoyed it, and learned a few things.

Very nice explanation.

[Nongdamba500]

nice trip cool information

[jvarela965]

MiG-23 was one of the best looking fighters ever made but was a bad dog fighter. Arab air forces losts scores of them to the Israelis. Saddam had over 100 of them at the start of the Iran Iraq war and lost them all by 1983 to Iranian F-4s and F-14s sold to Iran during the Shah's last years.

[vonkaunaz]

@jvarela965 This is VERY incorrect; Iranian pilots were barely capable of dog fighting, and the number of Iraqi fighters shot down by them in air-to-air action was in fact very limited.

[jvarela965]

@vonkaunaz That was later in the war. Khomeni was afraid and correctly so the military would stage a coup. The Air Force in particular was loyal to the Shah and the old Royalist forces. He purged all the best military commanders and pilots so you had hardened Iraqi pilots fighting Air Force cadets.

[oliderid]

Great explanation, thank you :)

[olivergwilson]

Great vid, more please!

[coldwarair]

@olivergwilson We will have some more videos posted soon. Please stay tuned.

[alien7836]

Восхищён тем, что чужая страна с любовью восстанавливает для истории самолёты которые оставили след в истории авиации.Жаль что у нас эти самолёты гниют под открытым небом,и я сомневаюсь что они сохранятся через 10 лет.Американцы молодцы.Кстати действующего списанного самолёта МИГ23/27нет ни в России,ни в Украине.Вообще списанные самолёты в музеях этих стран внутри пустые.Часто отсутствуют приборы на панели.Надеюсь посетить Ваш музей:)

[NazarovVv]

This video brough tears to eyes. I am Bulgarian though I live in the UK. It is wonderful to see, this aircraft in safe hands but also saddens me that foreign countries respect history, and collect jets like that while in Bulgaria even in museums these planes are rusting away. I do hope you preserve the BGAF markings when you are done putting it together. Hats down to you sirs, keep up the good work

[jrrm3]

Very interesting. I was hoping to see that folding dorsal fin they had on some models. Thanks for posting.

[sukoy999]

buen reportaje de este clasico avion

[bestamerica]

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two american swing wing planes are the best,,,

B - 1 and F - 14,,,

not ussr russia

[l2eallllly]

There's no point in criticizing the agility of the MiG-23, as agility was never a design-priority. Even a pair of Egyptian MiG-21, at one point, managed to defeat a pair of Libyan MiG-23 by luring them into a turning-fight; where the MiG-21 proved the more nimble fighter. The MiG-23 had a curious combination of roles more akin to the F-104; excelling primarily as a pure-interceptor and/or as a low-level strike aircraft.

[jajapani]

very cool video.

[MalinGenGTEAM1970]

Ye were the action. Story teller.

[Hobgoblin1975]

 Not a highly thought of aircraft, but I like it because I see that it was well thought out. and if it is like most russian aircraft it is cheaper to build than its westeren counterparts.

[enoch5000]

Interesting stuff. 

[thracianglad]

Bulgarian MiG-23, we miss you, buddy! ;-(

[PICLex]

10,000 tonnes. 10,000 tonnes...........!

[Tome4kkkk]

@PICLex He probably meant 10 tonnes.

[PICLex]

@Tome4kkkk

lol yeah...

[usquanigo]

Great video. But please get a shirt mic for the future. The volume of the voice was changing so constantly it made it very difficult to watch (especially at work).

[Slugstoppa]

What an excellent brief, well enjoyed watching. 20 years ago the Russians would have done their nut

[22slither]

Did I hear 10,000 Tons of thrust? Perhaps 10,000Kg is more correct. This was one of the most widely deployed soviet interceptors of the 70s and 80s

[denmalski]

The aircrafts performance has never been questioned. it accelerates quick, it climbs quick and it's fast as hell, everything you want in an interceptor, it's biggest flaw is it's low tech avionics and low tech instrumentation. the migs ability to process and display vital info would get your ass wooped by a more modern plane

[blaxblax82]

On 7 June 1982, three MiG-23MFs (pilots Hallyak, Said, and Merza) attacked a group of F-16s. Captain Merza detected the F-16s at a distance of 25 km and brought down two F-16s with R-23 (AA-7 "Apex") missiles (one from 9 km and another within the distance of 7 or 8 km) before he himself was shot down....this plane Rocks..

[rsarneja]

Very good video. Thanks

[fjphotography]

Thanks for the vid.

[roossiboy]

i just played around in one of those 23s over here in moscow aviation museum. its a place where u can play with all the planes and helicopters but only if u can climb in on ur own. see how high it is, i got in using a car tire and the intake hole. this museum has all the migs on an airfield. come visit

[MiG29MOVT]

very interesting thx for uploading it

[xosrov2]

awful plane, crap maneuverability, poor visibility, radar and fire inaccuracy, its just another Russian poor reverse engineering and tecnology espionage, this time from F111.

[jonboede]

Maybe... but it's fun to have one in your garage. :-)

[stalingradComando]

maybe. But during its existence the Mig 23 managed to shot down f-4, F16, F15,  Mirage F1, Panavia Tornado and almost a dozen helicopters. How can you explain that?

How can you explain the fact that 4th generation F16 were defeated by 3rd generation Mig23 in afghan airspace?

[Andrismilitary]

well comrade the answer is that americans cant make weapons . they have a good prophaganda so they can fool ppl that america beats everything . but really it only beats its cock .

[czechpilot21]

MiG-23 MLD is comparable to the F-16. in the version of MF or ML is rather a coincidence

[gosciu555]

Maybe more comparable to the Tornado ADF, F-16 still has a lot better maneuver. Post WarPac countries should've bought up the SU inventory of MiG-23 ML/MLD's and BN after the collapse. The Russians didn't have any need for them and they could've gotten good planes at a discount price.

[czechpilot21]

that´s true, F-16 has much better maneuverability than MiG-23. but in the fight for longer distance are almost the same. MiG-23 MLD has quite good radar, like F-16. but these are all just my assumption, based on various information. I haven´t any experience with MiG-23MLD, cause we had in our air force only BN, MF and ML. and with F-16 I have only a few experiences.

[geminiwoe104]

YOur a fucking moron if you believe that bullshit. lol

[stalingradComando]

No, you`re the moron here, exept for the F15, the Mig23 has shot down everyone of the aircraft I mentioned before multiple times starting from the soviet invasion of Afghainistan to the Gulf War and many more loclal conflicts, that`s a known fact

[S300V]

@xosrov2 And you are offcourse an expert on espionage and that sort...or just another ignorant, disrespectful bloke.

[gosciu555]

except you're wrong cause the soviet equivalent to F-111 is Su-24. Stupid.

[damaged01]

@ xosrov2, yes, because i'm sure that you are the premier expert on this plane and have logged many many hours flying one, and are in fact not just another random idiot on the internet.

[109Mechanik]

Numatics!  Priceless,

Good video, thanks

[sailentea]

Nice video, just please next time, while John is showing us some interesting flight instruments, do not point camera at his face, but rather show us the instruments :-) THX

[ALEXT48178273]

MIG-23 on which captain V.I.Shkinder from the 152-nd fighter regiment of AAD intercepted and brought down two CH-47C. First CH-47C attack two rocket R-60 and helicopter down.Second helicopter attack guner GS-23.

[maxpayneau]

I'am from Poland - very nice video! 5/5

[ccc771]

woow yeer cool video thanks for sharing i take it your going to get this one flying again??? or is it just for static display. Not that i would be able to see it fly anyway "bit to far away"... anyhow hope you have good life insurance policy if you try and take it for a spin!

[jonboede]

Yes, this one will eventually fly.

Life insurance = fresh pyro in the ejection system!

[22Smucalo]

Great video ,only thing the guy forget to tell is that Mig 23 was one of the most (if not the) fastest single jet fighter at it's time ,maybe even today !

[jonboede]

Kids always want to know "how fast? how fast?" and nobody seems to be able to relate to 2,500 km/hr or even 1,600 mph... so we tell them "Dallas to Houston in 11 minutes." One kid said, "How long would it take to get to Wal*Mart?" :-)

[22Smucalo]

haha rofl !

[Drobnjak1]

Awesome video guys. Very impressive the effort you guys put in regards to this soviet era fighter. Thumbs up!!!

[mickeyhellas]

I actually enjoyed this video, educational.

[NorceCodine]

Yes the incredible landing gear is what probably the most fascinating feature of the MiG-23, and gives its characteristic "look" of the plane. Its a marvel of ingenuity and mechanical engineering prowess. The MiG-23 was designed based on the Vietnam-experience, and it had to solve seemingly contradictory requirements. Short landing and take-off had priority, thus the vario-wings, and everything else was built around that. It carried the most advanced "Atoll" missiles (4) under the fuselage.

[enoch5000]

@NorceCodine Peter Ustinov (WINGS OF THE RED STAR)explains why Migs has so heavy duty landing gears, so they can land and take off in improvised airports.

[gerodinis]

@NorceCodine

A few years after entering service it was also fitted to carry the AA-8 Aphid.

[ManicParroT]

10 000 metric tonnes of thrust?

10 000 000 kg of thrust?

He means 10 000 kg of thrust, or 10 metric tonnes, right?

[jonboede]

Um... yes. :-) Oops.

[nedeljko031]

Great bomber....

[vecair]

Nice job, thanks for your efforts, appreciated the info. Its people like us that make this stuff happen and don't just whine about people that do!

Regards from Vector Warbirds USA

[kimosabbe50]

I have a question: Were you using a teleprompter?

[coldwarair]

This video was actually shot on the fly. John is just that knowledgeable about this aircraft. Thank you for your response. There will be more videos to come, so stay tuned and thanks for watching.