Russia s Foxtbat MiG-25s were Perfect Spy Planes nationalinterest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalinterest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The MiG-25 Foxbat: Russia s Supersonic Answer to SR-71 Spy Planes nationalinterest.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nationalinterest.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What can kill a SR-71?
Here s What You Need to Remember: America replaced its SR-71s with RQ-170, RQ-4 and, soon, RQ-180 drones. But Russia’s aerospace industry never quite mastered robotic aircraft. With satellite locked in predictable orbits, the MiG-25Rs were Moscow’s best way of looking down on its enemies without warning. Su-24 and Tu-22 bombers could carry cameras, but were slower than the MiG-25s and more vulnerable to enemy defenses.
In 1964, the Soviet Union’s awesome MiG-25 Foxbat jet fighter flew for the first time. Specifically designed to intercept the U.S. Air Force’s spy planes, the MiG-25 could routinely reach Mach 2.8 nearly three times the speed of sound.