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| Yak-23 | |
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| Polish Yak-23 in the Lubuskie Muzeum Wojskowe, Drzonów | |
| Role | Fighter aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Yakovlev |
| First flight | 8 July 1947 |
| Introduction | 1949 |
| Retired | Early 1960s |
| Primary users | Soviet Air Forces Polish Air Force Romanian Air Force Czechoslovak Air Force Bulgarian Air Force |
| Produced | October 1949–January 1951 |
| Number built | 316 + 3 prototypes |
| Developed from | Yakovlev Yak-17 |
The Yakovlev Yak-23 (Russian: Яковлев Як-23; USAF/DoD reporting name Type 28, NATO reporting name Flora)[1] was an early Soviet jet fighter with a straight wing. It was developed from the Yak-17 in the late 1940s and used a reverse-engineered copy of a British engine. It was not built in large numbers as it was inferior in performance to the swept-wing Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. Many Yak-23s were exported to the Warsaw Pact nations and remained in service for most of the 1950s, although some were still in use a decade later.
- ^ Parsch, Andreas; Martynov, Aleksey V. "Designations of Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft and Missiles". www.designation-systems.net. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
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