{"id":157786,"date":"2024-12-14T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-secret-mig-23-floggers-covert-training\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T01:00:15","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-uss-secret-mig-23-floggers-used-for-covert-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=157786","title":{"rendered":"What To Know About The US&#8217;s Secret MiG-23 Floggers Used For Covert Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Cold War, the US launched Project Constant Peg and acquired a number of Soviet aircraft to evaluate enemy aircraft and use them for adversary training &#8211; the most advanced of these             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> was the MiG-23 Flogger (the program ended in 1990). Constant Peg was part of the lessons learned in Vietnam. In 2023,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2017532\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/north-americas-airworthy-mig-23-crashes-michigan\/\" >the only airworthy MiG-23 remaining in the United States crashed in Michigan<\/a><\/span> (that was a different MiG-23 purchased from Bulgaria after the end of the Cold War).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constant Peg featured secretly acquired Soviet MiG-23 Floggers to provide realistic training for pilots, enabling US pilots to beat them easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,567,8012,1175,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-mig-21","category-soviet-planes","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157787,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157786\/revisions\/157787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}