Mig 31 Foxhound

Description of the Mig 31 Foxhound

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mig
• 31
• Foxhound
• Russian
• Airforce
• Military
• Cold
• war
• mig
• 25
• foxbat
• Libyan
• airforce
• UN
• Gaddafi

[StargateAddictSL]

Rated - *****

[bluerallyes2]

And it would have been at the range of a small country away when it locked you up, one of the more worrying cold war jets.

[harris3693]

@1:16, JIZZ IN MY PANTS!!!!

[hundvonkrieg]

@zipacna1980 haha



[zipacna1980]

@hundvonkrieg Who cares of radar signature in a Mach 3 aircraft armed with 200 milis range missiles and an built-in AWACS radar burning through any countermeasures? BTW, a plane of this legacy did the first kill of a Gulf War downing USN F-18. Mig-25s has disrupted numerous coalition missions forcing full strike airwiings to drop their load early and run. Iraqis are also claiming numerous lock-ons on planes patrolling NFZ while coalition pilots weren't even aware of it.

[zipacna1980]

@hundvonkrieg Oh, c'mon. Coalition force was too much an overkill for an Iraqi defences. That number of drones and planes has just overwhelmed them, made their position exposed and easily destroyed. As for Mig-31 it is outdated but still the best interceptor. It has nothing to do with 3rd World. BTW, these were the reason behing a SR-71 retirement. Blackbird has turned to a chicken intercepted and locked on on a daily basis.

[l2eeaalityy]

@hundvonkrieg As per Iraqi air defences, their surface-to-air missile inventory was mostly comprised of SA2, SA3, SA6, and SA9 ...plus a large number of man-portables. These systems were very densely packed through most of the country but, though certainly requiring NATO pilots to keep on their toes (and fingers close to their counter-measures), they hardly represented the very latest and greatest of Russian hardware of the early nineties.

[l2eeaalityy]

@hundvonkrieg The MiG-31 isn't intended for attack, but defence - a look-down, shoot-down cruise missile interceptor. The MiG-25, similarily, was built to intercept bombers flying in over the pole; neither aircraft optimized for dogfighting, but for maximizing the distance, from cities, at which nuclear payloads could be brought down. An interceptor is built to fly as high, and fast, as possible to intercept long-range (unescorted) bombers - other considerations, including agility, secondary.

[hundvonkrieg]

@l2eeaalityy against a 3rd world country the 31 would work just fine. But keep in mind no jamming was used over Baghdad the first time. That was all first generation stealth. The Iraqi air defenses then were as close to state of the art as your could get outside of the USSR. Closest thing to an SR71 for speed and altitude that you could get. But hey its the internets opinions are what make it run

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[l2eeaalityy]

@hundvonkrieg Stealth is convenient for attacking small countries defended by technological diluted, export arms. It is irrelevant, however, versus a high-tech' enemy such as the modern Russian Federation; Russian forces having advanced jamming capabilities comparable to those which we have used to render Iraqi and Libyan radars blind. Versus an electronic noise-saturated enemy radar (unable to distinguish the threat from the interference), the MiG-31 would be just as good as stealth.

[hundvonkrieg]

to bad it cant turn and has the radar signature of a small country.