I really like the MiG-31’s demonstrated ability to defend Iraqi airspace while buried in sand. Has to be a big selling point for the Russia’s hottest interceptor.
I think that was MiG-25’s. 31’s are basically space planes with longer range missiles. They can shoot down satellites and spy planes.
Buried in the sand. That’s a good one.
Reminds me of something many years ago when I used to work in the home building industry(Toll Brothers).
Had a nice young buy guy one of these ‘’McMansions’’. He had a wife and two little kids.
This guy said he was a Sky Marshall.
Only trouble was the guy was always home, always on the ground.
Five days a week and sometimes on a Saturday when I did over time this guy was ALWAYS home, puttering around in the yard, sometimes I’d see him getting into his BMW with a set of golf clubs.
Always wondered how it was this guy could see what was going on in the air when he was always on the ground.
Scott Speicher says a MiG-25 is dangerous. It is most dangerous against incoming bombers, but not so much against a even a 1970s era US aircraft.