Mikoyan MiG-31M "Blue 057": an Interceptor Like no Other

+1, gimme all the thrust

Is that the missile the India is “considering”?

ya

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here is brochure

brochure

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translated

RVV-BD Aviation Guided Missile

Class: “Air-to-Air”

The long-range missile is designed to engage airborne targets (fighters, attack aircraft, bombers, military transport aircraft, helicopters, and cruise missiles) at any time of day, from any direction, and in all weather conditions — including under electronic countermeasures (ECM), and against the background of ground or water surfaces.
It supports multi-target firing using the “fire-and-forget” principle.


Technical Characteristics

Parameter Value
Launch range (maximum) in head-on engagement up to 200 km
Target altitude 15 m – 25 km
Maximum target overload not more than 8 g
Missile launch weight 510 kg
Warhead weight 60 kg
Missile length 4.06 m
Body diameter 0.38 m
Wingspan 0.72 m

Guidance System

  • Inertial navigation system (INS) with radio-correction
  • Active radar homing seeker in the terminal phase

Fuze

  • Active radar proximity fuze
  • Contact fuze

Warhead

  • High-explosive fragmentation

Propulsion System

  • Solid-propellant rocket motor

Developer

Joint Stock Company
“State Machine-Building Design Bureau ‘Vympel’ named after I. I. Toropov”
Volokolamsk Highway 90, Moscow, Russia, 125424
Tel/Fax: +7 (495) 491-92-94
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ktrv.ru

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Thank you for the translation, I don’t speak or understand any Russian (beside some meme swear words like suka blyat

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Literally one of the best MiG-31M that can be added to the game as of now, features 6 R-37 (which are dual mode, not dual pulse, i.e. like aim120a, booster-sustainer, hence easy to model) plus 4 r-77. you also have the CM dispensers and ECM pods, which might become relevant as ECM might be on the corner.
Only problem is the SPO-15, they might have to give it fictional L-150 RWR because this is like 14.0 material

well i could find only 3
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no

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SPO-15 would be the hardest thing to balance about this around its BR, thats the main problem
they would have to make this a Su-34 part 2 or somehting

i mean you could just take full advantage of your ranged capability and speed to just get out of there as soon as you fire off R-37

they can still be notched, the main fun thing about this will be to BVR in it, not to play f-14 gameplay
IT doesnt need a lot of CMs, it can do its work with speed, but RWR might be important to do so

i have a question, is this mig-31 (06)?

not sure what you are asking…

i mean is this the 6th mig-31m prototype

Well i am not fond of all the foxbat/hound prototypes yet unlike felons

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ok so, 6 and a half prototypes were built, 057 blue (the current one) being the last made as mentioned by the poster. so yeah this is the 6th MiG-31M

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Corrected, thanks!

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But their is planes like su33 and jf17 so it could still happen