Phantom Flogger: How An Unarmed and Unmanned MiG-23 Crossed Into NATO Airspace

In the waning days of the Cold War, a Soviet MiG-23M flew pilotless across Warsaw Pact and NATO airspace, eventually crashing into a house in Belgium and killing one person. On July 4, 1989, a MiG-23 departed a Polish airbase for a routine training flight and lost power while ascending on climb-out, or so the […]