{"id":1095,"date":"2019-12-09T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimaair.wpengine.com\/?post_type=museum_aircraft&#038;p=1095"},"modified":"2019-12-30T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:09:02","slug":"mig-23mld","status":"publish","type":"museum_aircraft","link":"https:\/\/pimaair.org\/museum-aircraft\/mig-23mld\/","title":{"rendered":"MiG-23MLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23MLD Flogger-K<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MiG-23MLD.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MiG-23MLD.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of the MiG-23MLD Flogger-K\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The MiG-23 was the Soviet Union\u2019s answer to American fighters such as the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II.\u00a0 Development of an aircraft to replace the MiG-21 began in the mid-1960s.\u00a0 The Soviet\u2019s eventually adopted a swing-wing design similar to the American F-111 in order to take advantage of the delta wing\u2019s high speed advantages while also improving slow speed performance and reducing take off and landing speeds and distances.\u00a0 The first flight of the MiG-23 came in June 1967 and the aircraft went into service with the Soviet Air Force by 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Although several versions of the MiG-23 served with the Soviet Air Force and with numerous other air forces world wide it never quite lived up to its initial promise to replace the MiG-21.\u00a0 The final version of the aircraft the MiG-23MLD introduced in 1982 incorporated advanced avionics and radars along with aerodynamic improvements that helped keep the aircraft competitive until the MiG-29 could be brought into wide spread use.\u00a0 The MLDs in Soviet service were all upgraded from earlier aircraft but the export versions were all newly built.\u00a0 In all more than 5,000 aircraft were built.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Service History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Upgraded to MiG-23MLD ca. 1982-1984.<\/p>\n<p>Assigned to the 655<sup>th<\/sup> IAP.\u00a0 This aircraft is believed to have been assigned to this regiment during its deployment to Afghanistan during Soviet involvement there and remained with the unit when it moved to P\u00e4rnu Airport in Estonia.\u00a0 The aircraft was retired in 1991 and sold to a group in Finland.\u00a0 It was later sold to a private individual in the United States who intended to fly it.\u00a0 Due to a paperwork mistake the aircraft was seized by the U.S. Government and turned over to the United States Air Force.\u00a0 It was eventually delivered to the National Museum of the United States Air Force where it was displayed for several years.\u00a0 In 2010 it was placed on loan to the Pima Air &amp; Space Museum for restoration and display.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Wingspan<\/td>\n<td>45 ft 10 in.<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #2387c3;\">Wingspan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Length<\/td>\n<td>56 ft 9.5 in.<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2387c3;\"><strong>Length<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Height<\/td>\n<td>15 ft 9.75 in.<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2387c3;\"><strong>Height<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Weight<\/td>\n<td>34,612 lbs (loaded)<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2387c3;\"><strong>Weight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Max. 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