Fighter Version. First widely known about in 1967 at the Domododevo airshow. The MiG-23 (Flogger) is the F-111 equivelant. It is a high altitude fighter as well as a low altitude stike aircraft. It has variable wing geometry with a stablized 30 degree sweep. The fighter version has a Moskit-23 airborne radar that can track three targets and fire on two. It's wide array of weaponry makes it a stable platform for all missions it had. The strike derivitave had the PrNK-23K INS (Intergrated Navigational System), ORbita-20-23K ADC (Airborne Digital Computer), and the Kaira-1 LTSS (Laser / Television Sighting System). With the tech on board, the lock on range was 7.5 - 8.0 km, (weather permitting). Early on as the technology improved, the RSBN-6 short range navigational system was replaced with the KN-23 radical navigational system. Targets included fixed and stationary objects, hardened bunkers, parked aircraft, small sea-borne vessels, and runways. The aircraft carries a 30mm Sh-6-30 auto-cannon supplied with 260 rounds, which fires at a rate of 
5,000 r/m (rounds per minute) @ 875 m/s (meters per second). It also carries a gunpod with a SPPU-22 2x barrol 23mm anti-aircraft auto-cannon @ 200 rounds. 3,000 r/m @ 710 m/s. Contemplated retirement from active soviet and Russian service, it will still remain in active duty in various countries such as Iraq and Iran, Isreal, ect.
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