MiG 25 vs F-15 and possible F-15 shoot down in this air battle
F/A-18 too btw
It didn’t score a kill on F-15, but if you look into real records MiG-25 took very few losses in Middle East despite huge efforts to destroy them.
Including ambushes by groups of F-15’s on single aircraft.
It was here the MiG-25 set the record speed at around m3.6.
There are no confirmed shootings (however, this does not mean that in the future some of the alleged ones will not be confirmed). However, at least one F-15C was damaged (I don’t know if the damage led to the aircraft being taken out of service).
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Bulannikov said on a Russian stream that there are plans to introduce the MiG-25…It is not known which modification has a combat rating, because of the special characteristics of the aircraft, it is likely to be Promotional…
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Wait, really? Could you tell (rough) time-frame of this?
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Does anyone have photographic evidence of a MiG-25RB or any of its derivatives equipped with R-60 missiles or S-24 rockets?
I’ve written a suggestion for the MiG-25RBSh, proposing that countermeasures and R-60 missiles be included on a single MiG-25RB variant, rather than splitting them across multiple historically distinct versions. Sticking rigidly to historical accuracy would likely prevent us from ever getting a fully viable MiG-25 bomber in-game. This ensures the aircraft is at least reasonably playable and competitive within War Thunder’s environment.
I also suggested giving the MiG-25PD a limited bombing capability, similar to the modifications seen on Libyan aircraft, as a way to avoid introducing the RB variants into the game. But that’s a separate discussion.
Wont be BM variant better option?
Technically it’s part of the RB family, and If I am not wrong it’s a SEAD jet, not a bomber. I also don’t think BM had flares equipped.
What I am trying to get is a MiG-25 with bombs, flares, and R-60s. And that, based on this article, never really happened, but it is plausible. Which type of RB doesn’t really matter as long it gets these features all together, otherwise there is no point in adding a MiG-25 bomber, when you can give bombs to a PD.
Its bomber as well. It carry up to 10x FAB-500. SEAD option is plus when ARM will be thing in future.
10? I though it was 8 max
6 under hull and 4 under wings.
I doubt it. I double-checked, and the only documented configurations ever photographed show 4 bombs under the wings and 8 under the fuselage. (Send me a pic if this is false)
The MiG-25BM was developed from the MiG-25RBK and was specifically designed as a SEAD platform. Even the original post confirms this.
It doesn’t really matter which RB plane they pick for the MiG-25 bomber. As long as it gets countermeasures and R-60 missiles. Otherwise they should just leave it.
Does the MiG-25 PD radar’s MTI behaces the same like mig-23? i hope it isnt like that, and allows MTI on high altitudes and positive elevation angles too.
Looks like a computer generation, this real?
At the end of the day, If it could carry 3 racks on the belly then other RBs can as well.
I cant tell. There is not more info about that. But i cant try find.
Edit: yeah its only model.
MiG-25RB №401 transformed to BM with Kh-58U and bombs.
https://www.airbase.ru/sb/russia/mikoyan/mig/25/bm/indexe-t.htm
Hmmm
There was two configuration for 6 hull bombs according to this source: