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MiG-25 Foxbat
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This was the USSR’s answer to the design in the US of fast, high-flying aircraft as the B-70, F-108 and SR-71. The MiG-25s were presented for the first time to the public in July 1967. The MiG-25 lacked ’technological refinement’ (in Western terms this means ’is simple’), but its performance caused much concern in the West, which reacted with (surprisingly similar in layout) F-15 Eagle. Also used as reconnaissance aircraft, which in the Middle-East proved invulnerable for the Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs.
Originated from line of experimental interceptors Ye-150, Ye-151, Ye-152, the first MiG-25P took off on September 6, 1964 as the Ye-155P-1. Powerful engines and choice of airframe materials (80% steel, 8% - titanium alloys, 11% - aluminum alloys, 1% - other) allowed to built the fastest interceptor of the time.
Production of MiG-25P started in 1969. In 1978 upgraded MiG-25PD rolled out, equipped with heat-seeker TP-23 in addition to more powerful Pulse-Doppler radar (Sapfir-25 instead Smerch-A). Early production MiG-25P were modified later to became the MiG-25PDS. |
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Multi-purpose jet fighter |
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Ceiling, m |
37,000 |
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Range with max.payload, km |
1,260 |
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Range with max.fuel, km |
2,575 |
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Max speed, kmph |
3,000 |
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Empty mass, kg |
20,000 |
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Maximum take-off mass, kg |
35,000 |
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Wing area, m2 |
56.8 |
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Wingspan, m |
15 |
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Lenght, m |
25 |
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Engines |
2 Mikulin-Tumansky R-31, 123.0kN |
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Crew, prs |
1 |
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