Thats Czech.
Compared to RB it got more advanced SIGINT device, new navigation complex, lighter tail area without 600 l fuel tanks and installation of ECM.
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Thanks for the translation. I should learn some basic Czech tbh
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MiG-25PD Official Suggestion is now live: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25PD Foxbat-E — The Refined Foxbat
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MiG-25BM Official Suggestion is now live: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25BM Foxbat-F — The Soviet Wild Weasel
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1- Mig-25 has relative wing area but very thin wing, it does not have slat or LERX either so the lift coefficient isn’t high compare to other aircraft
2- Ultimate limit is not the same as the usual safety G limit, there were some case that even an F-4 survive 12 G pull, but it doesn’t mean it will survive every time
3 -Mig-25 sustain turn capability is not even remotely close to that of F-15 or F-16, unless we talking about some extreme altitude where the other two can’t even fly
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where is this from ?
so if this is added will the mig 25 be able to do 3.2 or will it be limited to 2.8 ? i know it burns engines out but other jets can run there engines into the red so can the foxbat do the same ?
it can do mach 3 for about for 15min then engine start melting, 2.8 is max safe zone, capable of 3.2 but big danger ( that what the algerian pilot said to me last year november parade )
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is it same for mig 31 ?
mig31 max speed is 2.8, i dont know if its 3 capable
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ig it will be possible in WT as u can already cook your engines in some props.
Limit off the speed isnt engine “melting”, its thermal heating to the fuselage. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesnt know what they are talking about
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Not exactly. The fuselage heating is a big deal but the engines take a huge beating too. At those speeds the air being rammed into the intakes has to be slowed down to subsonic levels before it hits the combustion chamber and when you do that, the pressure and temperature shoot way up. Eventually its gonna get hot enough to start cooking the turbine blades (no matter how good the cooling system is).
The Foxbat can go mach 3+ yes but only for a short time before the engines start melting down like the pilot told him (note: scramjets get around that because they actually run supersonic flow through the engine and dont use compressor blades at all, and everything is handled by the ram pressure)
So when an actual Foxbat pilot says thats how it works, I’m gonna take his word over someone arguing theory on the internet…
You are also wrong and I highly encourage you to look more into is. I also do not trust this random WT forum user, they might be lying, might have never meet the pilot, pilot might have lied, who knows:
Heres a good video on the topic
Alright then explain where exactly I’m wrong…? what part of the airflow/temperature buildup do you think doesnt happen? Because thats some basic jet engine physics… And its kinda strange to dismiss what someone said after actually meeting a Foxbat pilot only to put full faith in some YT video instead. The guy on the forum has nothing to gain by making a story up like that.
And I know the parade he’s talking about, I didnt talk to any of the airmen there myself, but I’m familiar with it. Still everything lines up with what is already known about the foxbat, that Mach 3 is doable but you’re basically sacrificing the engines if you stay there too long…
So you havent watched the video then great, Kabot is one of the best source when it comes to info about MiG-25 speed and aerodynamics. You just think too simple and “basic jet engine physics” in itself is an oxymoron. The video has sources, while this random forum user and you do not.
You still dont even tell me where I’m wrong here…
Yes I havent watched the video yet but nothing can contradict documented facts, for example in the 70s the soviet Foxbats over Sinai reached Mach 3+ and the engines got damaged and had to be scrapped. Real history like that obviously carries some weight rather than what a hobbyist says on Youtube
Your idea isnt wrong, but the fact is that what you think is too much for the MiG-25 engines is. And again you speak myths about how Mach 3+ damages engines which is false. No further reply unless you actually provide a source and watch the video
Belenko told his American interrogators that at 80,000 ft. his jet could fly safely at only Mach 2.8 (1,850 m.p.h.), rather than the Mach 3.2 of prototype MIG-25s. Even at Mach 2.8, he complained, his engines overheated and the four air-to-air missiles slung under the wings vibrated dangerously.
It’s not a myth, that’s literally what yet an other Foxbat pilot said. And that supplements what I said earlier about the physics of the jet engine and the Soviet detachment in Egypt that had to ditch one of their engine that overheated.
hahaha nice one man, you are just trolling now. great.
Article from 1976 where Belenko (who would have said anything to get US saftey lied about the plane)
You believe these ““claims”” (still no source for the Egypt thing), again not a real source unlike the video which actually has sources.