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Foxbat Tales: The MiG-25 in Combat
Paperback
Series: Fighter Jet, Book 3
Air CombatRussian HistoryWeaponry & Vehicles
ISBN13: 9780999644355
Publisher: Magnum Books
Published: Jul 31 2020
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
From the Middle East to the Iron Curtain...the definitive combat history of the MiG-25.
July 1967: At the Moscow Air Show, the Soviets unveiled six new state-of-the-art aircraft. From among this lineup of new fighters and interceptors stood the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25-purportedly capable of outrunning and outmaneuvering any aircraft in NATO's inventory.
Yet even before its public appearance in Moscow, the MiG-25 had been a grave concern for Western analysts. Indeed, this new interceptor could fly at speeds in excess of Mach 3 and cruise at altitudes heretofore deemed unreachable for a tactical fighter. Moreover, NATO's intelligence community was baffled by how the Soviet Union had cobbled together such a masterpiece of modern engineering.
The reality, however, was that this interceptor was a poorly designed airframe with an oversized motor. Although it excelled as a reconnaissance aircraft, it fared poorly as a dogfighter - and it was typically the loser when pitted against Western aircraft like the F-14 Tomcat and F-15 Eagle.
From the Sinai Peninsula...to the Soviet-Afghan War...to Operation Desert Storm, Foxbat Tales is the definitive operational and combat history of the MiG-25.
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