Soviet STOVLs

[uk 75]

At the same time NATO was flirting with a jump jet air force so too were the Russians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_23-01Interestingly whereas the various drawing board designs in the West were largely dead ends, the Soviets evolved the Mig 23 swing wing family from theirs.

 

[blackkite]

Hi! Russian beauty.　
https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234908117-art-models-172nd-mig-23-pd/

https://twilog.org/cccp2017/month-1711/8

 

[blackkite]

You can see Su-15, Mig-25, T-58BD, Mig-23PD in the last part of this video. Don't miss.
We surprised very much to see these aircraft same as the United State military at the day. We immediately realized that Mig-25 is mach 3 class!!
Then the U.S. developped F-15 and F-14 immediately.

 

[Sundog]

I always thought the MiG-23PD was one of the best looking MiGs of the Cold War. I have two of those kits. Thanks for the video link[the post with the embedded video] (Note the "videos" are in the middle of that video link. You don't need the volume on, it's just bad background music.)

 

[hesham]

From, MiG fifty years.

 

[elmayerle]

I've always thought that it would be interesting to replace the lift engines of 23-01 with fuel tankage and/or ammo storage for a fitted gun and add large canards (ala' Viggen) to the inlets. I'm very sorely tempted to use canards from the Ye-152M in modeling this.