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To: Long Cut

Those Russians aren't too imaginative these days, are they? Looks like a slightly reworked MiG-25.


151 posted on 07/26/2004 1:08:23 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

That's because the MiG-31 was a follow-on to the MiG-25. The -31 had a crew of two, and a powerful radar for long-range work. It was slower than the FOXBAT, though, by about half a Mach. IIRC, it also wasn't very maneuverable, but then neither was the FOXBAT (which, if all this weren't confusing enough, is the aircraft that FIREFOX was actually based on.).


155 posted on 07/26/2004 1:18:40 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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