From what I hear a Lightning can also catch a U2 spyplane and catch Concorde for days. Why? "Because someone said it could".
Im sorry to tell you that whoever you heard that from, has no clue what they are talking about. Like many of these recent "leaks" or "rumors" its people making up random things and pretend to be some "insider expert".
MiG-23 is not already "made and being tested" .
The current MiG-21s have been performing perfectly fine since they were added and were even dominant for quite some time. Even now they remain more than competitive.
As I already said, we have much more planned, including this patch for the USSR. But the notion that the USSR is somehow in last place in jet battles when the MiG-21s have been more than competitive and above what many other nations have is simply untrue.
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