MiG-23: Not Necessarily Born to Fail… On paper, the MiG-23 didn't seem like such a bad aircraft when it was developed. In ...

The MiG-23, Explained In the 1960s, the Cold War was heating up. Between the Cuban Missile Crisis at the start of that decade to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in its middle and end ...

The attacking aircraft was a MiG-15, most likely flying from a base in Manchuria. Before the incident, analysts believed that the only use Stalin had authorized for MiGs supporting communist China ...