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Wonder if Msrs Gordon and Komissarov are active on online aviation forums or have a website of their own? It would sure be some very interesting discussions that could be had with the gents.To Pegasus, thanks for your insight, i have to say though that i'm not the one to take what the americans or israelis claim as gospel, on the contrary. While of course i don't believe the much inflated claims from some pro-syrian/pro-russian sources regarding Bekaa, i also don't buy it for one moment that the israelis had it all their was (f.e. Norton in his IAF book while presenting the israeli version of what happened- no losses whatsoever-, iirc he also mention about at least damaged F-15s and couple of lost F-16s as well) although i guess this is a subject for another topic. One final note on this though is to add about the finding of a very interesting article about a mock dogfight between libyan MiG-23MLDs and USN F-14s in 1986, which is yet another confirmation imo of MiG-23ML/MLD's very good overall performance for it's day at least, even if allowing for too much "excitement" so to say from the libyan pilot in telling his side of the story.[URL unfurl="true"]https://theaviationgeekclub.com/libyan-mig-23-pilot-remembers-a-memorable-dogfight-with-u-s-navy-f-14-tomcats/[/URL]
Wonder if Msrs Gordon and Komissarov are active on online aviation forums or have a website of their own? It would sure be some very interesting discussions that could be had with the gents.
To Pegasus, thanks for your insight, i have to say though that i'm not the one to take what the americans or israelis claim as gospel, on the contrary. While of course i don't believe the much inflated claims from some pro-syrian/pro-russian sources regarding Bekaa, i also don't buy it for one moment that the israelis had it all their was (f.e. Norton in his IAF book while presenting the israeli version of what happened- no losses whatsoever-, iirc he also mention about at least damaged F-15s and couple of lost F-16s as well) although i guess this is a subject for another topic.
One final note on this though is to add about the finding of a very interesting article about a mock dogfight between libyan MiG-23MLDs and USN F-14s in 1986, which is yet another confirmation imo of MiG-23ML/MLD's very good overall performance for it's day at least, even if allowing for too much "excitement" so to say from the libyan pilot in telling his side of the story.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://theaviationgeekclub.com/libyan-mig-23-pilot-remembers-a-memorable-dogfight-with-u-s-navy-f-14-tomcats/[/URL]
