Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 'FLOGGER' - History, Design, Performance & Dissection

MLA was later upgraded with these systems
There is also export MLD

Didnt know MLA upgraded later, i was talking about in game models.

Well, I remembered that I have a 23MF in my hangar… Let it stay there.

I suggest you should try MLD, at current br its quite good.

Played couple games not long ago and it was quite enjoyable.

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I brought MLD to the top a long time ago, but the Germans still have MLA and MF in stock. I clashed with MLD in battles, usually they gain 5 km and use 24P, but there were also cunning guys who crawled through the gardens under the path of our team and threw 24T that no one was expecting)

I would personally use R-24T all the time. Very deadly missiles with which I have most kills (also against the western 4th generation). Master of surprise attacks and ambushes.

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Why doesn’t the MiG-23 have radar gun lead? It doesn’t have it in the HUD either without switching HUD modes even tho I doubt that it doesn’t even have a gyro gun sight right?

That’s true, but there’s a problem - the “magic valley” card or whatever it’s called often appears, China, I think, there’s constant cloud cover, and the OLS often doesn’t want to catch the target even at altitude in clear weather. But the missile is interesting - it always arrives quietly when it’s not expected)

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Yeah weather is biggest weakness of that missile. Thanks god that Tunisia or Sinai is mostly sunny. :D

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I made new visualisation of implementation of MiG-23 variants into TT:
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If somebody want know how to make similar TT so here is good editor for that:
https://przemyslaw-zan.github.io/WT-Tech-Tree-Maker/

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Another options:
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Honestly throwing the MF is fire (it is not)

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That’s true, for comparison I played on MLA, these are two completely different gameplays (
For now I’ll stick with F-16.

the 21I is in game on the Bison MIG-21, it is not a good radar at all

Are the MiG-23 variants able to use the R-3R? I remember reading somewhere that when they exported the MiG-23MS with the downgraded radar they also shipped R-3R because it couldn’t guide R-23R. Could regular MiG-23s (at least the early-ish ones, ~M/MF) use R-3R?

Some pictures of a MiG-23 in Monino with R-3Rs
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From here:

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yeah m and mf can use them atleast


also here

No the MiG-23M/MFs never did carry R-3Rs, Wikipedia says that it does but it never did its one of the memes Wikipedia makes about the MiG-23

mig 23 mla after the update is still good very fun plane to play it takes alot of skilll now though the radar not having a maunal switch mode is such a pain which as fari remeber it had so idk

Wikipedia isn’t wrong, the variants mentioned predate the MiG-23M or any other model in the game. None saw service or serial production with those missiles.

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