Frankly, there were no effective countermeasures against this at all, as the use of the F-111 in Vietnam clearly demonstrated. And the MiG-25 had no specific role, since no doctrine envisioned bombing the USSR with unguided free-fall bombs like in the 1950s. Long-range bomber interceptions were supposed to be handled by the Tu-128, and the fact that it remained in service all the way until the MiG-31 entered service speaks volumes about the actual capabilities of the MiG-25.
Oh cmon, you guys don’t post anything here anyway.
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Like i said It wasn’t the best plane ever but it was very important for the soviet airforce, without the 25 the 31 wouldn’t exist.
While he really played with that one slapping not a bug on and then removing it just to slap it back
31 actually did stuff in russia unlike the 25, to be fair it’s kinda carried by its missile
First try to name a mission for which it was actually important. Considering that the B-58 was retired and the Valkyrie was cancelled. Without it, the Zaslon would have been installed on a more advanced aircraft. Btw the MiG-31 inherited a number of shortcomings from the -25.
I meant important in the sense of contributing to the evolution of the soviet airforce, resulting later on the mig-31.
Interception of anything that breaches Soviet airspace at high altitude/speed? (the incident in 1960 greatly shamed PVO for not being able to intercept it, leaving SAMs to take care of it)
Ah, that makes sense. Well, as I said, the Zaslon didn’t necessarily have to be mounted on the MiG-31 airframe.
As I already said, the main candidates for violating Soviet airspace since the 1960s preferred low and ultra-low altitudes.
Still leaves the issues of high altitude spyplanes (and you cant cover whole country in SAM sites, gotta have something more flexible, like a proper interceptor)
Those high altitude spy planes couldn’t be intercepted by it, since they flew faster than it.
As for being a proper interceptor, it lacked the necessary range. That’s why, as I mentioned earlier, the Tu-128 remained in service.
It got enough range for it specific job of taking off and burn fast and high. Tu-128 hover yes, a long range, better suit for patrol duty, but it lacks in speed and ceiling in comparison to MiG
All in all, I think we should drop discussion of MiG-25 and how useful it was in the thread for MiG-29. There should be a suggestion thread for MiG-25 tho
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For God’s sake, how many times do I have to repeat it — nobody was flying up there at high altitude. Even B-52 crews had been trained to fly at 150 meters since the 1960s.
Indeed
bunch of bug reports i made on the ILS-31 (the Su-27 and Mig-29 HUD) after finding an east geman document on it:
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Well.
Now that the early F-16 with radar missiles just got AMRAAMs, I really hope we see some early Fox-3 MiG-29 variant soon.
Since now the F-16A’s beat out the MiG-29A’s in a dogfight, AND BVR…
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Mig-29S
with the N019
that sounds like fun, doesnt it?
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god please.
or the 9-15, that could be fun.
9-15 suggestion post got passed awhile back so let’s hope for something in the coming teaser or dev blog
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