mig-23

• her ne kadar gözümde (özellikle f-16 yada mig-29 gibi kusak farki tasiyan rakipleriyle karsilastirildiginda) tarihöncesine ait bir ucak olsa da, hakkinda bazi sasirtici yorumlar var:
  
  "many potential enemies of the ussr and its client states have had opportunities to evaluate the mig-23’s performance. in the 1970s, after a political realignment by the egyptian government, egypt gave mig-23mss to the united states and the people's republic of china in exchange for military hardware. in the us, these mig-23mss, and other variants acquired later from germany, were used as part of a soviet military hardware evaluation program. dutch pilot leon van maurer, who had more than 1,200 hours flying f-16s, flew against mig-23mls from air bases in germany and the u.s. as part of nato's aerial mock combat training with soviet equipment. he concluded the mig-23ml was superior in the vertical to early f-16 variants, just slightly inferior to the f-16a in the horizontal, and had superior bvr capability.
  the israelis tested a mig-23mld flown to them by a syrian defector, and found it had better acceleration than the f-16 and f/a-18.
  u.s. and israeli reports also found that the mig-23's head-up display (hud) doubles as a radarscope, allowing the pilot to keep his eyes focused at infinity while operating his radar. this allowed the soviets to omit the separate radarscope from the mig-23. this feature was carried over into the mig-29, though in that aircraft, a cathode ray tube (crt) is carried on the upper right corner to double as a radarscope. western opinions about this "head-up radarscope" are mixed. the israelis were impressed, but an american f-16 pilot criticized it as "sticking a transparent map in front of the hud" and not providing a three-dimensional presentation that would accurately cue a pilot's eyes to look for a fighter as it appears in a particular direction."
  
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