Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
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Oct 9, 2026
SamHOST
There was no way I could have gone to the show the next year as well.
SamHOST
And the thought that there might have been a MIG-23, a NIL-20 and all that sort of stuff.
SamHOST
I was a little bit like, shame.
SamHOST
Bastards! That year, Trump came into power the first time and put all these...
TexHOST
I mean, like you see stuff that boggles the mind.
TexHOST
Like one of my favorite moments is that, that Libyan Chad that made his own like MiG-23 [laughs] out of like five planes.
TexHOST
It was just going around as like an Ace Combat hero.
TexHOST
And, and we were all just like, we had so many me- that's another thing, behind the scenes, all the memes.
Sumit MukherjeeGUEST
Certainly.
Sumit MukherjeeGUEST
And far easier than the MiG-23 or the MiG-27 because of the tail problem.
Sumit MukherjeeGUEST
Tail being too close to the ground.
Sumit MukherjeeGUEST
It was relatively simple to, on the approach, it was sure steady.
Tim HafnerGUEST
And a good friend of mine, Rex Carpenter, he was the flight lead, not as a wingman.
Tim HafnerGUEST
And we went up and they sent out a MiG-21 and a MiG-23.
Tim HafnerGUEST
For those who don't know what constant peg is, the US had Soviet built fighters that they were flying and US pilots could fly against them to just get that first sight out of your system and then be able to see the capabilities of the airplane.
Tim HafnerGUEST
mig-21 small little interceptor neat little airplane the mig-23 was not a very good airplane swing wing but it was fast and so we're setting up for the intercept and it turned out that rex had locked up the mig-21 and was targeting him and i was targeting the mig-23 and we had a readout on the radar screen that told you how fast you were closing with the other aircraft So if you're doing 400 knots and he's doing 400 knots, your screen will show 800.
Phil ThompsonHOST
The combat simulator sessions produced classified results.
Phil ThompsonHOST
What we learned later, after the publication of the book in 1980, is that while flying a MiG-23, Belenko and an American wingman were destroyed by a single F-15 within 40 seconds, despite beginning with altitude advantage.
Phil ThompsonHOST
In a MiG-25, Belenko was shot down four times before reaching 50,000 feet, but above approximately 60,000 feet the MiG-25 could accelerate out of the F-15's operational range entirely.
Phil ThompsonHOST
Each simulation reportedly cost $10,000.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
AI may not even factor any of that in unless we tell it to factor it in.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
It may just say, hey, I see a thermal of a MiG-23's tail cone taking off, going on this bearing.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
He's been called up by blah, blah, blah.
Malcolm NanceGUEST
Not happening.
Stu BaileyHOST
Hi, I'm Stu Bailey, curator at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, and in this highly requested episode, we are gonna take you on a deep dive inside the secret adversary training program, Constant Peg.
Stu BaileyHOST
American MiG pilot John Mann flew MiG-21s and MiG-23s as part of the Constant Peg program, and in this full-length lecture, he will share his stories.
Stu BaileyHOST
Now, we got a lot to cover, so let's get on with it.
John MannGUEST
My name is John.
John MannGUEST
It required some very creative people at the squadron levels and so forth.
John MannGUEST
But they made it happen, and along came this program called Constant Peg.
John MannGUEST
It starts off with MiG-17s, then we got some MiG-21s, then we got some MiG-23s.
John MannGUEST
I came into the program as a trainee.