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  • This plane is a dinosaur!!!

  • The flat-black antiglare paint scheme ontop of the nosecone and around the pilot’s canopy, must continue all the way around to aft of the backseater’s canopy. It’s neglect is a mistake, (or a deception?).

    In a turning engagement or at the top of an offensive loop, the rearseater goes heads-up as the pilot will have allot of instrument scan and the extra pair of eyes is priceless.

    As it appears from topside against the hunting gray, that additional angular flat black looks killer!

  • @brandonbig1

    Haha all hates americans because you try to invade each country with oil and lose each war against 3rd world countries like vietnam, iraq, afghanistan and 2nd world korea. You are the biggest posers of the world. Stupid folk you think you are the powerfullst country on earth? haha what a joke. more debts than any else. you waste 48% of year budget for military and can't win wars against sandrats with old old roasty kalaschnikovs.

    Your american military is the ridiculoust on earth.

  • @Talshet Actually you have it kind of mixed up.

    America is following due to a blithering ignorance & stupidity combined with willful blindness, the FuhrerPrinzip of the Debt Syndicate, the banker Crime Family syndicate of the world.

    We are dumb & criminal for doing this, but we are not ringleaders of this syndicated criminal enterprise, not as countrymen anyway.

  • @Talshet Ja ja ja. La potencia mas estupida de la historia, pasaran a la historia como mierdas.

  • @kumasan727 - YOU are clueless , Central Government planning drove CCCP into bankruptcy.  Not USA.

  • @aviomaster The USSR failed mostly because of bad political decisions, of course stalinist policies helped as well.

  • Maybe get one of these at RIAT 2012..would be awesome to see in the flesh

  • This plane is still a threat so if you don't take it seriously you are an idiot (yes I'm talking to you dumb americans who think they are the only Nation on earth)

  • I just love how purposeful these things look. An exceptional aircraft. All you people doing the USSR vs USA thing are idiots. Thanks for posting the vid!

  • That's the cheetah of the sky! you can't outrun and you can't chase a MiG-31...

  • Beautiful plane but very easy to beat in a combat because of the low agility.

  • @Saki2407 because its fast as hell dude 3600 top speed

  • russia great country , know how to make fighter aircraft 

  • Wow, I love the Foxhound. I would love to see it and hear it in person. Thank you for posting!!

  • @pulgabros She's a beautiful bird of prey from on top.

    Haze gray with black stenciling, red battle stars, and the flatblack anitglare all the way around to behind the rearseater's compartment. The glass gleams gold & blue tint like EXCALIBUR, from the gold leaf hardening against EMP and the antiglare in the glass.

  • @kllsddd The First Man in Space Yuri Gagarin may have survived his flight into space. He did not however survive flying a Russian fighter jet. Secondly America has since long won the Space Race hands down. As far as Vietnam is concerned all direct medium and large engagements where won by the US(Kill ratios through the roof). Both air and on the ground, with the exception of Air for a brief period of time. Pull out was political!!!!! Weren't the Russians in Afghanistan first? They Lost!

  • @Poleet1971 We may very well get to find out how full of hot air you are being toward Russia.

    We are plastering Libya, and under the usual accidently-on-purpose SOP of slaughtering noncombatants from the air we are going to be killing no few Byelorussians, Ukrainians & Russians.

    Soyuz is the only way up to the international space station. Criminal NASA managed to blow up 2 shuttles with the loss of all hands, too.

  • @Poleet1971 As for the Vietnam Conflict the PAFVN lost 210 MiGs of all types, while USAF lost almost 300 Thunderchiefs and almost 400 Phantoms ALONE.

  • @Poleet1971 : It´s funny to read how Americans are truly convinced they were winners in Viernam. "We won all battles against the Vietnamese", so they "won" the war; following their warped logic, we must assume the Soviets "lost all their battles against the medieval Afghans", and of course they "lost".

    What a load of prime, hand picked, USDA certified, ISO 9000 certified American bullshit. People are goofy.

  • I stand corrected, the Russians were first to put a man into space, and for that misstatement, you have my apology. You also make a good point on Vietnam; it is a sad point in the United States history, and it was a loss, I will not debate on that, nor am I proud of how my country handled it. Nor am I proud of my countries handling of it's current wars. we have not won or lost however in the middles east. Those wars are not yet over.

  • True, we are a fairly new nation, in the all of human history, but we are a great nation. We were the first to put a man in space, and the only to put a man on the moon, we have won almost every war we have fought. and as far as our "history" you're right, it only spans 234 years, but in that time, we have become a home and refuge for countless other culture's peoples, and that says something.

  •  /watch?v=KaoYz90giTk

  • Speaking of social ideologies, America's democratic republic has been around 234 years. whatever happened to the USSR.

  • @KriegPherd Russian civilization dates back over a millenia. As compared to the histories of so many other nations, the barely two-hundred year span of the United States is but the blink of an eye. The United States alienates itself from other nations, declaring itself superior; yet it was the peoples "of" these other nations who first settled on the eastern shores of North America, building the foundations of the future United States. Ironic?

  • Is funny to see that some (guess from which country) people is trashing the soviet space tech, especially since the ISS is using the rockets Korolev made 50 years ago for launches.

  • The bigest misstake CCCP made is to let  DIE in PEACE ./..

    CAN you see USA empire is falling atpart and they are planning new invasions and WARS ...

    CCCP should have destroyed USA in 1988

  • @aviomaster before or after we drove your country into bankruptcy?

  • Tank...

  • Whoever curses other countries should SHUT THE FUCK UP

  • you should put English subtitles.

  • Cant watch any aviation videos on here without it turning into a US vs. Russia debate. What it comes down to is that people trash talking the US are jealous bc their economy sucks and deep down they know that Western designs are a hell of a lot better and more complex than our eastern counterparts. Mainly due to availabilty of resources and advances in technology. Simple fact: Desert Storm, F-15's alone shot down 31 migs. Not a single allied aircraft lost in an air-air battle.

  • Aguante los Aviones RUSOS , Aviones de U.S.A. shit

  • Why would a former Iranian military leader and statesman called Sardar Mehdi want his company that he is General Manager of which is called MiG Productions, to put on a play about hypnosis by a world renouned Black Country playright and writer of books about hypnotism called David Tristram at The Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford?

  • MIG31 FUCK SR71 AND OTHER SHIT !

  • @02Sibalex Почему так высокомерно друг друга? SR-71 это самый быстрый самолет в истории, не ревнуй. Слишком самоуверенный соотечественники!

  • Lol! I've gotten about 30 "fuck usa"/"fuck u american shit" replies to my one comment. All of them are written in half-ass English. It makes me laugh becaus it's so funny.

  • @Abeastlypie that's the point.makes me laugh too.

  • @paveltul Guys, I thought school attendance is mandatory in US, no? Faggits

  • @Vitalik1Ru He, he, he, he.... LOL! What a hoot.

    Yes school attendance is mandatory for public school slaves, but nobody learns anything at all!!!! (smirk)

    He, he, he.... LOL

  • @centurion180ad no wonder you;re so stupid, derp.

  • @Abeastlypie

    fuck usa fuck u american shit

    coolface.jpg :)))

  • @ololoshenkilolo fuck u american shit? I think I like that since it shows that everyone in the world wants to do what ever they have to do to be with an american including fucking our shit.

  • @Abeastlypie you forgot the "e" in "because", half-ass english-speaker Rofl

  • i was reading the description..."Blackbird sucks" the Blackbird is a recon plane...meaning it is unarmed. and its faster then the MiG-31 the MiG-31 only does mach 2.83 while the SR-71 does mach 3.2. and i recall seeing a list of planes who hold the record for being the fastest and the SR-71 is the fastest and has been since 1976. July 28th,1976 to be exact

  • hey if it gets to cold there light the afterburners and it will feel like summer lol

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  • @dameion1975 wow. someone is angry. speaking of the truth, there isn't a word of it in your comment.

  • @dameion1975 lol you need an education to be a pilot. Flipping burgers on the other hand doesnt take much learning.

  • @STVR1 and for the record I do have and education I'm a test pilot and have a part time job as an instructor at the collage teaching students from China and India.

  • @dameion1975

    On your profile it says test pilot.

    even if you weren't lying; which you are, you are a hack.

  • @fluffeesh I see that your a kids so I'm not gonna bother please change your diaper and stay out of adult conversation

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  • @fluffeesh

    *Continuing*

    6. Stay out of the adult conversation.

    You started gloating about something which I am very sure isn't true.

    If it were true, it's nothing to be proud of as a test pilot can be taught in a small amount of time compared to actual pilots.

    So to recap:

    Down syndrome is your affliction.

    Learn proper English.

    Blame yourself and your parents for how much of a blight upon humanity you are.

  • @fluffeesh Awww poor little baby got mad at me. I'm sorry for calling you a kid with an "s" your right I made a typing error I should not have called you a "kids" or even a kid. A kid is the name for a baby goat if you want to get technical. And my my my little baby don't know how to follow a conversation where's the rest of your comment I see you sent one half to me and the other half here. So tell you mama to teach you to stay out of grown folks conversations son.

  • Would you stop quarrel here.....aviators are a big family , where ever they are and what nationality they have and you fighting here like dumbs.

  • pile of rusty junk

  • Вы СУКА дебилы Ёбаные!!!f-22&mig-31 Not one class!

  • @seboldc2393

    Are you realy 33 yrs old ?

    Nato fear this plane

    because it's fastest interceptors on earth.

    long distance detection.

    He can't hit ground target. It's one and primary task - intercept nato agerssors jets on long distance.

  • @maximatort , the MiG-25 "was" capable just track and destroy high altitude targets, whilst the MiG-31 is capable of track and destroy any flying target, even those who are flying very low.

  • @maximatort It is a fast plane but it has a huge radar cross section that makes it a large target for radar. and even thou it flies at mach 2.83 it cant out run a mach 4 missile.

  • @seboldc2393 its not for dogfights, its ment for interception, so out of sight missile attacks. It rushes into range of the enemy fighters/bombers fires its missiles using out of sight lock on then it pulls away before it is spotted and confirmed as a target to the enemy. Russian interceptors are the fastest (see MiG-25 Foxbat and compare with other fighters of its time)

  • @ImTheMightyOne you ment that mig-31 is evolved from raptor..

  • No just Mig 31 is a nuclear strike plane.

  • What is the RCS of the mig-31.

  • so good they cancelled it

    G

  • you guys are funny

  • then you'll laugh

  • Показать латиницей

    then you'll laugh

  • stop fucking tlaking about the f-22 its cancelld usa aint gonna have any so fuck the f-22 and your cunt ass acountry

  • ashkanmosavi : Told you who retarded inbreed? The USA have already about 150 of F22 and without the nukes of this "cunt ass" country, your country and whole western Europe would have been lapdogs of the soviets like my country, stupid retarded crossbreed.

  • go suck some EU cock bitch you need really need to

  • How do you figure the f-22 was not cancled, Their is 145 and the production is on till 2011 when the u.s. gets 187.

  • I'd like to see an F-22 taking off with 5cm of ice on it.Or maybe the bord computers would tell : Error,Don't send to Pentagon... xD

  • WHO WAS THE FIRST TO WALK ON THE MOON? America. Yup. Who's the only country to walk on the moon? America. Who will be the first onto Mars? Americans. That MiG-31 is visually appealing. Visuals don't help in a war, though. It wouldn't stand a chance against a sub-sonic, stealth F-22 Raptor, my friends.

  • Who was the first who flew into the space? Russia. Who won the WW2? Russia. Who invented radio? Russia?

  • Who was the first to Mars? The U.S. Who built the hubble space telescope? The U.S. Who was has spy satellites, the U.S. Who has international military bases? The U.S.

  • the only problem is that America is not building any F-22, they are to expensive! HA-HA-HA-HA LOSERS!

  • Ha ha, retard. That's just for now. Not forever. We will eventually build more. We just can't afford more as we pay our debt. We're building the F-35 which is 5th gen. We also have the B-2 which is also stealth. You shitty MiGs wouldn't last 10 minutes in the sky.

  • Again there is a problem. You are not paying of your debt, you are making more debt. Like I said: LOSERS!

  • @paveltul Agreed. They are slaves to the Chinese.

  • @paveltul +1

  • @paveltul yeah well at least my country doesnt have 3 million kids living in shitty, run-down orphanages

  • @adventchild1001 and how is this related to fighter planes?

  • @Abeastlypie

    Russian planes-best in the World, F-35 a bucket with bolts.!

  • @Abeastlypie

    Fuck USA>

  • @Abeastlypie ohh yes you re f-117 is stealth too,no???? how come it was shoot down by a 40 years old Soviet SAM system.. idiot... no kidding everyone is saying that if u can speak well u can become the president of USA ... so is time that u guys start DOING more and TALK less... and f-35 is a copy of the Russian yak-141 go and search on goggle.. the f-35 designers payed to the Russian yak bureau to help them building the f-35...stop embarrassing yourself in front of everybody

  • @Abeastlypie youre debt to china is so big that if u woul print money non stop for month u would stil be in debt

  • @Abeastlypie The MiG, as encountered by U.S. fighters, has always been a technologically diluted export aircraft; in Russian service, the most formidable aircraft are members of the Su-27 family. The Su-27 and above, like the F-15, can claim many kills for no losses, even in the hands of the Ethiopian air force (where it lacked the immense support of jamming aircraft which rendered enemies of the '15 effectively "blind" over Iraq and Lebanon).

  • @Abeastlypie As per paying off our debt, how do you suggest we do that? In order to sell, you need to produce. Corporate America, multi-nationals, and various foreign stake-holders have spent the last fifty years effectively selling our domestic production base out from under us; all in the name of increasing short-term profits at the expense of long-term economic sustainability. They all have more than enough money to jump ship, like economic locusts, when it crashes.

  • Why don't you walk on the moon anymore?It would be alot easier now,thanks to the new technology.Stealth?Now that's a laugh...

  • Stealth? A LAUGH? Are you retarded or something? Stealth exists, and this shit plane doesn't have it. We're set to walk on the moon again in 2017. Thanks, pal.

  • shit plane you said? I wonder, what US air defense can undertake to intercept one? Send SR71? Or flying chair like f117?

    It is combat plane capable of carrying a war payload at 2.5M in stratosphere. And there are numbers of them. US has no even such shit at the moment.

  • SR-71 and the F117 are retired. Ever heard of the F-16 or F-22. Maybe the F-15 or the F-18?

  • Tell that to the F-117 pilots that were shot down in Serbia,fool.Indeed,I believe in the stealth Plasma Cone,the Russians are working at,until then,F-22 is not fully invizible.

  • well, comparing US top plane with russian one that was made 4 decades ago - by thus you have already said that Russia has some superiority. :)

    No, F22 is great plane indeed. It should be at least for money it costs.

  • @Abeastlypie MIG31 is not made for subonic fight man...its interceptor...do you know what are you talking :)? MIg31M is the best interceptor ever...o yeah...who launched first man in Space? Americans? Who made first satelite? Americans? Who made first balistic missile? Americans? Who developed stealth? Maybe Americans again :P? :D Yeah xD

  • @nedeljko031 hey dumbass germany made the first ballistic missle

  • @blurrblaster they also developed the first plane designed to reflect radar.

  • @nedeljko031 Crazy, research for please.

  • @Abeastlypie

    The USA is collapsing, whereas Russia has the MARS 500 program going right now. The USA is several trillion dollars in debt and is becoming more and more like Colombia every day. Russia on the other hand is recovering from the Soviet collapse and growing every day.

    And I do hope you are aware that a MiG-31 would never be caught by an F-22.

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  • @Abeastlypie Given the present state of our shuttle program (fully one third of orbiters destroyed in accidents) and our continued dependence on Russia (who have, throughout, made many times our launches) for lifting men and materials to the International Space Station, it may be Russian rocket science too that lands human beings on Mars. The Soyuz, after all, has without doubt proven the most cost-effective space vehicle in history; its predecessors, the very fathers of the space age.

  • @Abeastlypie LOL... Did your get those "facts" from fox or msnbc? Also, it's supersonic, not subsonic. It would help using the proper terms when trying to make someone else look stupid.

  • my new favorite,better than the phantom

  • I can appreciate planes from any country, french mirages, british harrier, american sr-71's, russian migs and su's whatever but then again im not blindly patriotic and waiting for world war 3...Anyway other than that cool video and what a great plane, big chunky really good looking(i think) and fast as hell!

  • I don't presume to know which side's planes are superior because I'm not a general, but I do know this: It's not clear-cut technology. Russian planes are simpler than American ones, because of the USSR's finantial difficulties, BUT, don't forget that Hurricanes beat BF-109s because of better pilots and unique tail section durability. Often it's the weird little quirks like that which determine who is best. Regardless, except for the F-14 and the SR-71, Russian planes are a heck of a lot sexier.

  • @CountachLP5000 : USSR financial difficulties? What are u talking about? During the post-ww2 years, there were no "financial difficulties" in the USSR, and cost was everything but an obstacle in the task of designing, testing and mass producing whatever plane, fighter or bomber, might be capable to deal with those of the USAF.

  • @CountachLP5000 I'd like to point out that the Hurricane only got the majority of air-to-air kills because they were commonly assigned for counter-bomber duties. I'd put my money on the 109E vs a Hurricane, given equal pilots, altitude, E, etc.

  • @CountachLP5000 Russian planes get laid more often on Friday night? He, he, he..... (grin)

    It is training & morale, that makes the difference in combat. It always has, and it always will. America has gone the wrong way, and we are getting worse every second that goes by.

    Stealth is an interresting niche, that //could// complicate IADS matters, but America is dumbed down getting stupider, and corporations WANT shot down aircraft so they'll sell expensive replacements.

    Don't forget it.

  • pour avoir vu un de ces joujoux a basse altitude ,je peux dire que ca respire la puissance !pas de doute

  • I love America and Russia planes, and i love the Mig-31, but the Blackbird doesn't suck buddy, it still hasnt been shot down by any Mig.

  • You mean a very good Soviet plane, Russia is yet to introduce its own Fighter/interceptor

  • It is said that during Exercises mig-31 were vettorized against Tupolev bombers with an escort of Su-27. Migs of course managed to reach quickly those "bombers-groups",but instead of "fighting",they were "fought" by Sukhois,that never were Locked by mig-31 weapons (thanks to supermaneuvrability),and at last won the dogfights. I thinkthat Mig-31 ismore useful against slowbombers, drones, cruise-missiles, and it isinteresting the proposal to equip them with super-long-rrange A-A missiles

  • They are already equipped with AA-9 Alamo missiles.

    Maximum flight range 170km +/-

    Speed Mach 4.5

    Im pretty sure it can carry 8 of them.

    Take a look at R77M1. That thing is an AMRAAM on steroids with a face lift, and just got laid. Its going to be a deadly weapon that will equip Russian, probably other CIS states, Ukraine, hopefully Iran.

    Im hoping Iran gets delivery of their S300 systems before anyone tries to start WW3 by using "tactical" nuclear weapons on them.

  • Russian Federation fell apart? I think you mean USSR right?

  • Nazim, with grammer like that, if you're a pilot of any kind I'll eat my hat.

  • ah no the black bird can still carry weapons and also if you really do your research like i do becuase i fly jets like the f-22 you will see that with no pay load and unessessary items on the aircraft is gone just the scamjet motors and the skin with on plot the black bird can go mach six-do you have a minimal idea of what your saying?

  • I am sorry,but the maximal theoretical "continuative"speed for air-breathing,hydrocarbure burning, machines is mach-4. Higher speeds happened during "dashes".Ofcourse,there are speeder "planes" like X-series, but their engines are similar to missiles. Of curse,by using other types of fuel (liquid H2? Hydrazine?),higher coninuative speeds could be reached

  • actually 75%of ww2 was between germany and russia .the u.s invasion at france was a sideshow in comparison.

  • Right!! and Stalin won the war single handed. Read a real history book. Ever heard of the lend/lease program started by FDR. saved europe

  • Russian technology is shit. if it wasn't for these fkin Americans you would all be speaking german! for every one of these successful flight videos there are ten crashes of russian junk falling out of the sky. keep wishin'

  • sorry dude, you are the one who is expressing wishful thinking.

  • aha. go and suck your dick.

  • great come back!!!!!!!!

  • hey! stalin if rusky pilots are so good how come they can't speak english????

  • because Russian language is much better than English.

  • do they still have to wipe their asses with their hands??????

  • is that what

    Americans do?

  • is wonderful how these fkin americans don't know a fuckin nothing about aircrafts... their only luck was the use of processing units (CPUs) used in F-15 F-16 F-18 AND in their fkin AIM-9, AIM-7M, AIM-120...

    but Mikoyans MiG-29C and OVT, Shukoi Su-27/33/35 were MUCH more agile and lighter.

    Oh and USA pilots sucks too... even my grandmother could shoot and score an active homing AIM-120C at 50miles or a AIM-9X that turn at 24g...

    russian fighters require skill... USAF fighters don't. Period.

  • the black bird can go mach 6 mig 31 mach 3 ops!!!!!!!!!!!

  • blackbird march 6? what is this do you have the minimal idea of what are you saying. The SR71 was an unarmed aircraft and had a top speed of March3, only at high altitude. the Mig25, wich is still the fastest fighter aircraft today reached March 2,5. the Mig 31 is slightly slower, but unlike SR 71 it is still in service and carries weapons

  • This is one sweet plane! It almost gets you in space @ around 28 KM in the sky. GREAT MACHINE!

  • Guys, that's not a dogfighter. This plane hits the enemy before the enemy plane's radar has even thought there could be a plane somewhere around (320/330km rocket range for MiG-31).

    Dear russians, please upgread the electronics of this great machine, or it is getting obsolete!

  • It's upgraded. They putted a new radar will ever higher performance and applied some level of RAM on the aircraft. Also it will be equiped with KS-172 ultra long range AAM(Anti AWACS missile) . The primary role for this aircraft is to destroy bombers , awacs and refueling airial tankers.

  • yes,it is aninteresting hypotesis,but are You sure that a missile could "see" and seek a target 400km far away? 400km are a verylong distance,

  • expensive missiles can do anything :D The reason normal missiles dont seek that far is that planes are too small to carry a missile that heavy and big, but not this mig 31

  • MIG 31 was an advanced version of the MIG 25 which was shite the MIG 31 is a high tech long range interceptor

  • it look like mig-25

  • Yeah i should have explained i meant the mig doesnt look like much of a dogfighter.

  • The blackbird flew missions over the USSR from lakenheath a us airforce/raf base in england. Its a great looking plane but its huge and heavy doesnt look like i would be much of a dogfighter.

  • your probably right since it was built for reconaisance

  • awesome aircraft - I think it's a perfect fit for huge Russian airspace.

    with it's huge size it could mount some serious electronic systems - give it a new Radar and other tracking methods and you'll have yourself a Raptor hunter - speed, range and extremely hard punch - it has it all. :)

  • Raptor is just a waste of time, it's nothing but overpriced piece of steel in the air.

  • what are you guys babbling about the blackbird...it's been retired for over 10 yrs

  • Я люблю Миг31 !!!

  • SHIT

    English translation please.

  • black bird does not fly, over the territory of the USSR and Russia.

    What are they afraid of?

  • lol? what do u know about secret spy missions?

  • black bird leaves a trace inversion

    and may remain invisible, just for the blind

  • You mean Tupolev Bear above american aircraft carriers?

  • like the ones you were doing when we shot down the U2 with the SA2?

  • whats up with "black bird sucks" russia never managed to shoot one down, still the fastest plane in the world.

  • LOL MiG-31 is also fast as old SR-71 and Russian never shot one because it never floated above Russia... And if was it would be shot down... SR-71 floated only above America because it was to damn expensive so you wouldn't let it fly above enemy ground.

  • they would

    heres why, it couldnt be shot down at the time :p

    I want to know what lala land you live in

  • SR-71 Recce missions SE Asia. Best air defence SAM's Soviets could make and tested in Nam. Nothing touched the SR-71-fact.

  • It is notcompletely true,Yamaha. In1993 three mig-31s interceptd a blackbird coming from different directions,and managed toreach SR-71 ceiling. Migs didn't shoot any misslesbecause there was peacetime,but blackbird was "invited" to go back,and it did. that was the last mission over Siberia

  • Yamaha950, yes, blackbird is capable of 3.35 mach and mig is capable of 3.2 mach (if it destroy its engines) and the mig 31 is capable of mach 3, and both are capable of shoot down blackbirds remember that 4 mig 31 did intercepted a blackbird but they didnt shoot at it, just scared it and it left russian air space, belenko probably lied americans to be free

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  • how did this video turn into a crazy debate about Mig-29's? Anyhow the f-15 has never been tested by a well-equipped opponent. Serbia's mig stable was a joke, as was Iraq's and all the other countries whose mig-29's have faced f-15's. A truer test would be a US-russian war over eastern europe. Mig-31 is a great long-range BVR interceptor cause it's cheap and fast. USAF always tries and fails to build figher-interceptors, with f-22 the latest attempt. More planes in the sky is vital.

  • but not dogfighters, the f-22 is good (the f-23 could possibly have been a better plane) and the f-15 is pretty good, as was teh f-14

  • F-22 can brake well while turning to start an anchored fight. But once it's there it hasn't got the turning power to outfight the OVT su-3x's and mig-3x's. It could have, if its designers hadn't spent so much resources on stealth and high speed. That's what I mean by fighter-interceptor, a plane can't do both and multiroles are never best at any role. A PAK-fa will likely beat f22 in close combat, while mig-31 in long-range can either win or get away. usa should stick with f-15.

  • In 1999 whole fleet of serbian mig-29 is in fact inoperable!

    disabled N019 radars,inoperable radar warning receiver with countermeasure set's.For Serbian mig-29A,last date for overhaul is 1994,and they don't had spare parts to maintain avionics!

  • USAF & NATO,know that...

    serbian mig-29A is incapable to use their R-27R

    and that is main reason ,why mig-29 is shot down!!!

  • Dumb?

    Do u know how many Serbia got migs-29???

    a pair of tens.

  • you say the balckbird sucks, im not gonna even say why ur comparin a recon supersonic spyplane to a long range interceptor, but maybe its the fact that 4000 attempts to shoot the bird down by the soviet union, not one missile reached its target, all the that the plane had to do was simply accelerate, stop comparing the blackbird to mig-31 compare the bird compare it to the russian equivalent

  • You cant Mig-31 is A Complete BVR fighter Beyond Visual Range Its High Fast And very Capable of Fighting with F-15 at BVR distance.America Based its New Radars on Mig-31 Foxhound Phassed Array Radar systems however the Mig-31 is No dog fighter.