The MiG-23, Explained In the 1960s, the Cold War was heating up. Between the Cuban Missile Crisis at the start of that decade to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in its middle and end ...

It also has a 9-A-768 23-mm gun. Source: The National Interest and Globalsecurity.org. There have been multiple accounts of MiG-31 fighters chasing away SR-71s, the legendary high-altitude US spy ...