With a realistic true airspeed for each of 1000km/h in a head-on flight, the advantage of a kilometer additional tracking distance is equal to 2 seconds. I doubt very much that from the given technical advantage any real tactical advantage can be derived.
It had advantages and they were clear, in fact this is a result, a South african Mirage F1 shot down by a MiG-23ML
The MiG-23ML were shot down by SAMs but none was by a Mirage F1
sourcehttp://www.airwar.ru/history/locwar/lamerica/cuba23/cuba23.html
Could you explain that chart a bit? To me it seems like the F1 and F-4 both had better radars than the MiG-23M. Isn’t that radar reach vs. height? :confused:
It is not as difficult as it seems but of course i can explain it to you
first let us say сапфир-23д-III по Мираж F1 means the Saphir`s radar detection range of a Mirage F1 at different altitudes and ranges, the other ones are like this
Сирано IV по МиГ-23М this means the Cyrano radar detecting the MiG-23M
obviously AN/APQ-120 по МиГ-23М, means the AN/APQ-120 detecting the MiG-23M
Д this D means the range in kilometers and is on the horizontal axis and in russian means range and is the russian word for дальности, it is on what is traditionally the X ordinate in a math graph, so obviously the other vertical ordinate is altitude.
If you look well you will see the MiG-23M had a better radar, however the MiG-23ML has a better radar so we can not say it was inferior to the Mirage F1.
Consider it had also long range R-24
That were flown by Cubans and there was no performance disparity, when it comes to flight perfomances. 😉
There was not an overwhelming superiority but the MiG-23ML was better, better radar, better missiles and better agility.
To cue and lock on the missile you need good agility, the Mirage F1 were unable to do it, it was performance not the missile, the missile was an element but not the main reason if they could not lock on the MiG-23s on the gun sight was simple lack of better performance and at least one Mirage F1 was shot down, since the missile hit it and disabled it to the degree of crash landing it
http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/fighter/mig23m/mig23m-2.gif
This is a chart showing even the MiG-23M had a better radar
http://www.1stbusinesslebanon.com/civilwar/civi2.html 😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelias
man the page does not prove the MiG-25R kill, it has no picture, no proof no evidence.
If you get Syrian sources claiming they lost it well it can prove your point but besides that the page is just a recollection of some pictures to support an account that generalizes the situation in the battlefield, it does not prove all the kills claimed, just generalizes victories using few pictures.
i can also generalize see
if in 1973 israel lost F-4s
and Gil Fogel was shot down in a F-4 in 1982 then the MiG-23Ms manned by Heyrat and Zabi did shot down more F-4s as some russian sources say
Sourceshttp://www.waronline.org/IDF/Articles/lebanon-losses.htm
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