Mig-23 camouflage

[GiampieroSilvestri]

Did this Mig-23 ever exist?This is a picture from a pc flight simulator game I found on the Internet.I looked in the excellent book by Yefim Gordon and Dmitri Kommissarov about the Mig-23 and Mig-27 but could not find any mention of it.

There was a Mig-23UB painted in a similar camouflage scheme.

 

Thank you very much

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

 

Edited April 3, 2022 by GiampieroSilvestri

[Hook]

If it did, I haven't seen pictures of it.

 

Cheers,

 

Andre

[GiampieroSilvestri]

Thank you very much for the reply.I have just seen that the aircraft on the picture has the same number red 210 like the Mig-23UB so it is most probably a interpretation for the flight simulator game.

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

[exdraken]

In this markings it seems a company plane, or at least a trade show maschine....

 

The simulator image also seems to use the UB nose as a base... there are slight panel line hints on the radom....

[pigsty]

It's highly unlikely to be real.  The tail markings are the current Russian flag, and the Russian Air Force retired all its single-engined fighters a long time before that.  And as no-one can buy a MiG-23 now, even heavily used, a trade show mule is also unlikely.

[exdraken]

Giampero,  I guess you found that photo:

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia-Air-Force/Mikoyan-Gurevich-MiG-23UB/688764/L

 

http://wpalette.com/en/pictures/17972

http://wpalette.com/system/pictures/d/9/1/e/17972/medium.png

[GiampieroSilvestri]

2 hours ago, exdraken said:

Giampero,  I guess you found that photo:

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia-Air-Force/Mikoyan-Gurevich-MiG-23UB/688764/L

 

http://wpalette.com/en/pictures/17972

http://wpalette.com/system/pictures/d/9/1/e/17972/medium.png

Yes,that is the picture I found.

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

[Dmitriy1967]

There is such a photo. But this is a monument in the city of Astrakhan. It could have been painted in any color, so it is not known whether there was such camouflage on flying planes.

 

 

[Dmitriy1967]

I searched the Internet for information and it seems that the plane did not fly in this color. Before it became a monument, it was silver in color and the tail number 02 was red. Here is the link. There is Russian, but Google translator will help.

MiG-23 MLD

[GiampieroSilvestri]

Bolshoi Spasibo Dmitriy!

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

[Hook]

15 hours ago, Dmitriy1967 said:

Before it became a monument, it was silver in color

Any pictures?, I've never seen a silver MiG-23MLD. 

 

Cheers,

 

Andre

[Des]

I have a saved three-view camouflage scheme drawing from the long defunct 'Americo Maia' website of MiG-23UB  'Red 210' in this colour scheme and form of markings which is captioned  'Russian Air Force - FGUP Corporation's Day - Moscow 10.08.02'.

 

FGUP seems to be an acronym for Federal State Unitary Enterprise and is used as a prefix/suffix for a host of varied organisations.

[Dmitriy1967]

On 04/05/2022 at 15:39, Hook said:

Any pictures?, I've never seen a silver MiG-23MLD. 

 

Cheers,

 

Andre

 

Hi Andre

 

Perhaps you are right and there were no silver MLD. I'm not good at painting airplanes. I just quoted the words from the text to which I gave a link.

 

Cheers,

 

Dmitriy

[Dmitriy1967]

On 04/05/2022 at 16:16, Des said:

FGUP seems to be an acronym for Federal State Unitary Enterprise and is used as a prefix/suffix for a host of varied organisations.

 

You are absolutely right.