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[Windjammer]

As usual commenting before research

The MiG23UB serves as a Trainer for the MiG27UPG Fleet!

Date : 2014

No question of it been mothballed

Indian Air Force to retire MiG-23 fighter jets
The Indian Air Force will on Friday bid adieu to its MiG-23 'swing wing' ground attack fighter jets after nearly 30 years in service.
DELHI Updated: Mar 05, 2009 15:07 IST


The Indian Air Force (IAF) will on Friday bid adieu to its MiG-23 'swing wing' ground attack fighter jets after nearly 30 years in service.

The MiG-23 BN aircraft, which were bought from the erstwhile Soviet Union to counter Pakistan's then newly acquired F-16 jets, will take to the sky for its last sortie from the Halwara airbase in Punjab on Friday.

"The jets, renamed in the IAF as Vijay (victory), were designed to replace the ageing fleet of MiG-21. They were once known as a formidable supersonic combat jets and it is going to be a nostalgic moment for us," a senior IAF official said on Thursday.

The single-seater aircraft, which was also used in Kargil War, was inducted in 1981 to meet the IAF's requirement of a tactical air strike aircraft. It also participated in operations in Siachen from 1985-86 and has operated from Leh, the highest airfield in India. It was also the first fighter aircraft to operate from the high altitude airfield Thoise in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Most of the IAF's MiG-23s have already been phased out. Its superior version the MiG-23 MF was phased out in 2007. Now we are left with only eight MiG-23 BN," the official added.

With a dubious safety record and besotted with engine troubles, the aircraft's phase-out comes because of burgeoning maintenance costs and problems relating to non-availability of spare parts.

Of the four squadrons the IAF had - over 70 aircraft - half of them were lost in air crashes and other accidents.

"Maintaining the aircraft fleet is very expensive for the IAF, so we have to phase out the aircraft, which has served us well over two decades-and-a-half. The aircraft incurs heavy financial costs for repairs and spares," the official added.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi...ighter-jets/story-AFsAiyvrtcmNhDuIbvrkcN.html

 

[GuardianRED]

Indian Air Force to retire MiG-23 fighter jets
The Indian Air Force will on Friday bid adieu to its MiG-23 'swing wing' ground attack fighter jets after nearly 30 years in service.
DELHI Updated: Mar 05, 2009 15:07 IST


The Indian Air Force (IAF) will on Friday bid adieu to its MiG-23 'swing wing' ground attack fighter jets after nearly 30 years in service.

The MiG-23 BN aircraft, which were bought from the erstwhile Soviet Union to counter Pakistan's then newly acquired F-16 jets, will take to the sky for its last sortie from the Halwara airbase in Punjab on Friday.

"The jets, renamed in the IAF as Vijay (victory), were designed to replace the ageing fleet of MiG-21. They were once known as a formidable supersonic combat jets and it is going to be a nostalgic moment for us," a senior IAF official said on Thursday.

The single-seater aircraft, which was also used in Kargil War, was inducted in 1981 to meet the IAF's requirement of a tactical air strike aircraft. It also participated in operations in Siachen from 1985-86 and has operated from Leh, the highest airfield in India. It was also the first fighter aircraft to operate from the high altitude airfield Thoise in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Most of the IAF's MiG-23s have already been phased out. Its superior version the MiG-23 MF was phased out in 2007. Now we are left with only eight MiG-23 BN," the official added.

With a dubious safety record and besotted with engine troubles, the aircraft's phase-out comes because of burgeoning maintenance costs and problems relating to non-availability of spare parts.

Of the four squadrons the IAF had - over 70 aircraft - half of them were lost in air crashes and other accidents.

"Maintaining the aircraft fleet is very expensive for the IAF, so we have to phase out the aircraft, which has served us well over two decades-and-a-half. The aircraft incurs heavy financial costs for repairs and spares," the official added.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi...ighter-jets/story-AFsAiyvrtcmNhDuIbvrkcN.html

Really??? ... Posting without any research again ??? where does it say it has retired the MiG23UB (TRAINER) ???? + this article is dated 2009
And i posted a photo dated 2014 shows is it used as a trainer!!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/882875477949415425

 

[Windjammer]

Really??? ... Posting without any research again ??? where does it say it has retired the MiG23UB (TRAINER) ???? + this article is dated 2009
And i posted a photo dated 2014 shows is it used as a trainer!!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/882875477949415425

What research, does the article say that IAF retained the trainer versions while it retired rest of the fleet.
When the news is that MiG-23 has been retired, one naturally assumes the whole fleet..... in fact it was some Indian member saying that it's been brought back after being mothballed.

 

[Callsign Chaos]

What research, does the article say that IAF retained the trainer versions while it retired rest of the fleet.
When the news is that MiG-23 has been retired, one naturally assumes the whole fleet..... in fact it was some Indian member saying that it's been brought back after being mothballed.

kid, you really need to improve your ewasibg skills, your article says MiG-23BN were retired in 09 & MiG-23MF in 06.
Nowhere does it say MiG-23UM was retired.

 

[Windjammer]

kid, you really need to improve your ewasibg skills, your article says MiG-23BN were retired in 09 & MiG-23MF in 06.
Nowhere does it say MiG-23UM was retired.

Well, let me shove it down your throat genius.
This is you blabbering elsewhere.

It was not a Crash but a Crash landing as per army sources, crew is safe:


http://m.timesofindia.com/india/arm...ash-lands-in-jodhpur/articleshow/59469650.cms

Update: IAF HQ says no mi-35 crashed, but an IAF MiG-23 trainer which was mothballed in reserve crashed during a training sortie.
Both pilots ejected safely.

This is what happens when you run around like a headless chicken desperate to prove your penny wort.

 

[Callsign Chaos]

Well, let me shove it down your throat genius.
This is you blabbering elsewhere.


This is what happens when you run around like a headless chicken desperate to prove your penny wort.

Read again, MiG-23UM were moved into active reserve but never fully retired.

 

[GuardianRED]

What research, does the article say that IAF retained the trainer versions while it retired rest of the fleet.
When the news is that MiG-23 has been retired, one naturally assumes the whole fleet..... in fact it was some Indian member saying that it's been brought back after being mothballed.

and yet there plenty of news saying the MiG23UB Trainer For the MiG27 + posted a Pic of the Air Chief been flown in 2014, so where is the question of it been mothballed?

where is this some indian Members????

 

[Windjammer]

and yet there plenty of news saying the MiG23UB Trainer For the MiG27 + posted a Pic of the Air Chief been flown in 2014, so where is the question of it been mothballed?

where is this some indian Members????

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[Naara-e-Mastana]

3 crashes in just 24 hours .

 

[Callsign Chaos]

3 crashes in just 24 hours .

Only two.

 

[AKD]

Why we are we still using mig 23? I though we used BAE Hawk for jet training.

 

[Naara-e-Mastana]

Only two.

2 copter's crashed 1 plane crashed

 

[AKD]

2 copter's crashed 1 plane crashed

1 copter crashed due to bad weather in arunachal
And one mig 23 trainer crashed.
There is no other crash

https://twitter.com/x/status/882857993833926656

 

[Naara-e-Mastana]

1 copter crashed due to bad weather in arunachal
And one mig 23 trainer crashed.
There is no other crash

Mi35 crashes in rajasthan

 

[Nodata]

Last month didn't PAF crashed 2 of its Jets

Good riddance