Video: 'Declassified dogfight footage: F-14 Tomcat vs. Libyan MiG-23'

(Wednesday, January 4, 1989, 12:01 p.m. local time; during the 1989 air battle near Tobruk) — Two United States Navy F-14 Tomcats today shot down two Soviet manufactured Libyan MiG-23 Floggers which the Americans believed were attempting to engage them over the Mediterranean Sea about 40 miles north of Tobruk, Libya.

The Libyan pilots were both seen to successfully eject and parachute into the sea, but it is not known whether the Libyan Air Force was able to successfully recover them.