Variable Sweep Drama — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. The MiG-23 Flogger became one of the most widely exported Soviet fighters of the Cold War, serving in dozens of air forces from Cuba to Libya and appearing in conflicts from the Ogaden War to the Iran–Iraq War and Gulf War. Its variable-sweep wing — manually selected between 16 and 72 degrees — gave pilots trade-offs between runway performance and supersonic dash that NATO F-111 and F-14 crews understood in parallel. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat served as the U. S.