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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 by Laminat09

Laminat09
Laminat09
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3rd Feb 2021
3rd Feb 2021
Mighty Russian interceptor plane flying as fast as Mach 2.5 and able to reach speeds of up to Mach 3.2
warfare traditional soviet plan design blueprint russia plane interceptor fighter

Comments

  • Bigboomstuff
    Bigboomstuff     5th Feb 2021
    *kilometers per hour intensifies
  • mrcheesburger
    mrcheesburger     5th Feb 2021
    ok the sr-71 could not be defeated still and the only reasons that the sr71 was cancelled was the us didnt wanna cause another ww and it costed way too much to keep producing
  • Laminat09
    Laminat09     4th Feb 2021
    @Umm also U-2 crisis wasn't something that anyone wanted to repeat, so SR-71 didn't fly over Russian territory as impudently and wasn't fired at in turn. Only actual attempts to take it down were done by Vietnamese - with use of far less advaned weapons
  • Laminat09
    Laminat09     4th Feb 2021
    @Umm it can reach around 30 km fully loaded, and relatively brief encounter is all that it needs as an interceptor, it doesn't need to follow it for hours or something. MiG-25 and 31 also have missiles flying at speeds like Mach 5, there were even anti-orbital systems tested if i remember it right
  • AlehandroBlyat
    AlehandroBlyat     4th Feb 2021
    Wings of fire
  • Umm
    Umm     4th Feb 2021
    Laminat09, interesting, after reading into it, the only way it was able to reach such an altitude was due to it zoom climbing, and likely with minimal weight (minimal amount of fuel, no ammo nor missiles), however shortly after reaching that altitude it would have fallen down like a rock, because there is no way a air breathing jet could sustain such a altitude, and with a standard load it couldn't match the SR-71.
  • docRoboRobert
    docRoboRobert     4th Feb 2021
    Good work. 1+
  • Laminat09
    Laminat09     4th Feb 2021
    @Umm https://www.fai.org/record/2825
  • Umm
    Umm     4th Feb 2021
    Laminat09, the Soviets shot down an U2, that was one of the reasons for the development of the SR 71, I don't think one more jet would have done that much for the already tense relations. Also can you provide a source for your claim of a MiG-25 going at a staggering 37650 meters?
  • Laminat09
    Laminat09     4th Feb 2021
    @Umm it forced the SR-71 out of soviet airspace several times. Shooting it down would be too much of an international scandal for the time. MiG-25 also set the flight altitude record for air-breathing planes for flying to the height of 37650 meters