Mig-27 won't work, damn lazy Mig!!

[highlyflammable 0]

not to be disrespectful of your work or anything im just curious as to how the MiG-27 is different and/or better than the MiG-23?

[Bullseye 0]

Mig-23 is primarily a fighter, Mig-27 is It's modification for groundpounding (has some armor, better gun, differnet engine etc.)

[Caveman 1]

Oh man y ou make us wait in large puddles of our oun drool

 

but it looks like it'll be worth the wait!!!!

Edited January 28, 2007 by Caveman

[SayethWhaaaa 245]

not to be disrespectful of your work or anything im just curious as to how the MiG-27 is different and/or better than the MiG-23?

 

The 23 was designed to be an air superiority fighter/light strike fighter/Interceptor. It proved not to be completely superior to the 21 but wasn't too shabby in its own right (it was proven to be superior to early model F-16As in quite a few ways, not just acceleration and climb-rate).

The 23BN and the 27 were designed from the outset to be strike fghter/CAS aircraft with a modified, slightly more advanced engine and avionics (although lacking a radar), armoured cockpit, modifications for rough field operations (debris doors on the air intake, strenghthened landing gear etc), plus the Russian equivalent of the GAU-8A, the GSh-6-30. The GSh allegedly can shred an aircraft with the briefest of bursts and fires a 390g (13¾ oz) projectile... It's a pretty mean bastard...