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Mig-23 only has the advantage of dash speed over F-16. The combat record of F-16 vs Mig-23 is lopsidedly clear.

I don't know what you're reading but in the Iran-Iraq War, a war between peer adversaries, Iranian F-4s shot down 4 Iraqi Mig-23 while Iraqi Mig-23 only shot down 1 Iranian F-4. Remember that Mig-23 was the newer fighter developed to counter F-4 Phantom.

The Mig-23 could not outperform F-4 especially the D and E versions in a dogfight. Mig-21 is actually better than Mig-23. Mig-23 simply was an overcomplicated design that was mostly manually operated. Mig-23's lackluster performance was further compounded by the fact the almost immediately...