Flogger - A compact fighter with variable sweep wings. The MiG-23 combined good performance with rough-field operationality. There was a scandal story when MiG-23 pilot was ejected on takeoff (by mistake he indicated an engine failure), and unmanned fighter crossed the Europe from Poland to Holand. Then it run out of fuel and crushed into small house killing one person... There was a photo in Soviet newspapers, where desptroyed house is shown with MiG's tail on top of it. So, fly MiG's, folks! You'll get far. And high, sure. One 12500kg Tumanski R-35-300 (or R-29?). 1974.
Sold to Iraq, China, Cuba. Licensed to India (MiG-23L Bahadur).

Modifications:
• - trainer.
• Flogger - The MiG-23B(N) is a ground attack version, developed later into a MiG-27 "Ducknose".
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• Flogger-A - ?
• Flogger-B - ?
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• Flogger-B - ?
• MiG-23-01 Faithless - see E-230.

Prototype designations: E-23IG/23-11
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Story: from «Aeroplan»; from «Air Fleet Herald».
Grigory Shukhman writes that in 1977 China started work on F-12 based on MiG-23 obtained from Egipt. First flown in 1980. Maybe few produced after 1987.

Combat activity
• 2 were lost in Afganistan in 1979..1988.