Foreign - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive Discover the Truth Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:03:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-siteicon-2-150x150.jpg Foreign - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive 32 32 87123917 MiG 23 (Russian) https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/mig-23-russian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mig-23-russian Mon, 23 Feb 2015 03:35:13 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=194 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23  is a swing-wing fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau in the Soviet Union. It is considered to belong to the Soviet “Third Generation” aircraft category along with similar-aged Russian-produced fighters like the MiG-25 “Foxbat”. It was the first Soviet fighter with a look-down/shoot-down radar and beyond visual range missiles, and the [...]

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]]> The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23  is a swing-wing fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau in the Soviet Union. It is considered to belong to the Soviet “Third Generation” aircraft category along with similar-aged Russian-produced fighters like the MiG-25 “Foxbat”.

It was the first Soviet fighter with a look-down/shoot-down radar and beyond visual range missiles, and the first MiG production fighter plane to have intakes at the sides of the fuselage. Production started in 1970 and reached large numbers with over 5,000 aircraft built. Today the MiG-23 remains in limited service with various export customers. (Source: Wikipedia)

The following are documents and intelligence relating to this aircraft.

The MiG 23: Mystery in Soviet Skies [18 Pages, 2.49mb]

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/aviation/mig23.pdf

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]]> 194 Ekranoplan https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ekranoplan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ekranoplan Sat, 21 Feb 2015 17:22:48 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=142 The Lun-class ekranoplan (NATO reporting name Duck) was a ground effect aircraft designed by Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeev and used by the Soviet and Russian navies from 1987 to sometime in the late 1990s. It flew using the extra lift generated by the effect of its large wings when close to the surface of the water [...]

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]]> The Lun-class ekranoplan (NATO reporting name Duck) was a ground effect aircraft designed by Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeev and used by the Soviet and Russian navies from 1987 to sometime in the late 1990s.

It flew using the extra lift generated by the effect of its large wings when close to the surface of the water – about four metres or less. Lun was one of the largest seaplanes ever built, with a length of 73 m (240 ft), rivalling the Hughes H-4 Hercules (“The Spruce Goose”) and many jumbo jets.

The name Lun comes from the Russian for harrier.  (Source: Wikipedia)

Declassified Documents

 Criteria of the Longitudinal Stability of the Ekranoplan [21 Pages, 1.13MB] – Uchenyye Zaplskl Tsagl, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1970, pp. 63-72

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/aviation/FOIA2013-160-a0029181.pdf

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