Название: Foxbat Tales: The MiG-25 in Combat
Автор: Mike Guardia
Издательство: Magnum Books
Год: 2020
Страниц: 141
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 14.4 MB
July 1967: At the Moscow Air Show, the Soviets unveiled six new state-of-the-art aircraft. From among this lineup of new fighters and interceptors stood the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25—purportedly capable of outrunning and outmaneuvering any aircraft in NATO’s inventory. Yet even before its public appearance in Moscow, the MiG-25 had been a grave concern for Western analysts. Two years earlier, for example, the first operational MiG-25 had flown faster than 1,440 mph on a 1,000-kilometer circuit. During the same flight trial, it climbed to more than 65,000 feet in under three minutes. Later that year, the MiG-25 set a new world altitude record for payload and non-payload flights. These performance metrics were virtually unheard of in the West.