50 Migs for $150 000!!!

hairy · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:45 pm

This may be old news, if it is I will apologise, but I just found this whilst trolling around on the net..........
http://www.flysouth.co.za/news/archive/2003-12-12/Once-proud%20Iraqi%20Air%20Force%20reaches%20end%20of%20the%20line%20the%20junkyard.htm

That sure as heck ain't a Mig 23 in the photo, I'd say more likely a captured Iranian F-4.

Is there any chance of any thing being saved and are any of the coalition forces taking anything home with them for their represensitive museums?

HarvardIV · **Joined:** Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:08 pm **Posts:** 1437

No hairy:

Look closely, it is a MiG 23. The nose and air intakes look a little like the F-4.

Martin Edwards · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:06 am

Just doing a quick bit of arithmetic.....
50 MiGs at approx 8 ton empty at $750 a ton gets you $300,000.
Not bad for investment of $150,000 (That a profit of about $3000 per MiG)
and thats in Iraq. Worth 3 times that as export.

Joe Scheil · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:27 am

I wonder if the scrap merchants got any of the older stuff, like the furies? Also are there any Mig 25's in western museums? Kind of an important aircraft for NASM i should think...

Originalboxcar · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:52 am

I agree, a MIG-25 would accompany the B-70 at the NMoUSAF or a B-58 for that matter.

regards,

t~

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:08 pm

That's an F-4E beyond any doubt!

hairy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:15 pm

I stand corrected........... :oops:

http://www.flymig.com/aircraft/MiG-23/1.htm

The two horizontal splitters in the intake points to Mig-23 as well as what appears to be a pitot mount just forward of the winscreen.

Its amazing how similar this section is to an F-4......

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:25 pm

the small plexi between cockpit screams F-4 but ya never know........
If I'm wrong the Col gives up the search for the White Bird!

dj51d · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:31 pm

Another give away that it is a Mig-23 is the intake extends above the level of the bottom of the canopy. On the F-4 the top of the intake is below the bottom of the canopy

hairy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:49 pm

ACHTUNG, ACHTUNG..........Vould Hairy unt Jack Cook report to interregation room vun fur Eastern Bloc Jet Identification vun oh vun................zat is all! :twisted:

Don Martin · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:14 pm

This is on page 72 of your NATO ALLIANCE/WARSAW PACT ID and Coloring books. Please Stay in the lines as there will be a test! :roll:

HarvardIV · **Joined:** Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:08 pm **Posts:** 1437

Hmmn;

I wonder if the Ruskies borrowed an F-4 to help make this plane

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:21 pm

Sorry Sorry Sorry
I'm into A-6s, P-3s and B-25s.
I take it back Rob, you may keep
searching the woods of Maine
with Dickie for the White Bird.

hairy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:00 am

I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4 and drag Jack Cook down to my level
I must not call a Mig-23 an f-4......................................... :oops:

BRIIIIIING

Saved by the bell, now wheres my special 'HUGGY' jacket. :wink:

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