[@Silverwind Blade]
So I can haz mine put into tabby?

Not sure if you saw the serious bio, or the pre-emptive april-fools "Everything is Yuri" bio.

[quote=@Silverwind Blade]I hadn't heard of the specific MLD variant of the MiG-23 before, it sounds like a good one.[/quote]
MiG-23MLGD was an upgrade-program meant for allied states that was canned for not being economical.
(MiG-29 was just that easy to build, and that much more capable. Although in terms of maint-costs they were same. A second engine is harder to keep running than a set of properly built swing-wings)

Its limitations aside, the MiG-23MLD served quite well as dissimilar aggressor aircraft (which were the ones with the sharks-teeth), not quite as-manuverable, but like most third-gen fighters, has brute power, rate of climb, and acceleration.