MiG-31 firefox

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P.A.F

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I've never seen this MiG-31 ever before. anymore info on it.








Designation: MiG-31
NATO Codename: Firefox
Nation of Origin: USSR
Manufacturer: Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau
Type: High Speed Interceptor (Prototype)
Year: 1982
Number of Aircraft Produced: 2
Powerplant: 2 Tumansky RJ-15BD-600 high-bypass afterburning turbojets producing 50,000 lbs. thrust each
Span: 46 ft 3 in
Length: 63 ft 1 in
Height: 16 ft 9 in
Empty Weight: 54,117 lbs
Loaded Weight: 81,725 lbs
Max Speed: 3,568 mph (Mach 5+)
Max Ceiling: 120,500 ft
Range: 3,000 miles
Crew: 1
Armament: Six AA-11 AAM's, or six R-23R or R-60 missiles, two 23mm internally mounted cannons and 4 rearward defense pods containing chaff / flare dispensers.

FS2002/4 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 Firefox. The first MiG-31 prototype rolled out of development in 1982. Designed as a high-altitude, high-speed interceptor, the Firefox incorporates a highly advanced avionics package and thought-controlled weapons system. The aircraft is revolutionary both in it's stealth airframe characteristics, as well as it's flight handling capabilities. Capable of speeds exceeding Mach 3.2, it has been long regarded as one of the fastest aircraft ever built. Carrying up to six AA-11 AAM's, R-23R or R-60 guided missiles, it has stand-off capabilities coupled with stealth characteristics making it a most formidable interceptor
 
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P.A.F

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Russia should make a whole fleet of those but yet again i don't think they have got the money.
 
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tatra

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umair showed the one and only MIG 31. The other aircraft is non-existent, it is from a movie featuring Clint Eastwood, if I am not mistaken.
 
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highsea

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Yes, these pics are from the 1982 Movie "Firefox" with Clint Eastwood. In the second picture, you can see the camera on the ground behind the "AC" (Notice it has no wings, and is sitting on a truck). :) Those are producers and cameramen in the picture.

Trivia:
Prior to the release of the movie, the cover art for the novel Firefox showed an aircraft similar to a MiG-25 Foxbat. After the release of the movie, the cover art was updated to reflect the design of the movie version of the aircraft. Incidentally, there really is a MiG-31, and it's a modified version of the MiG-25.

A total of nine models of the Firefox were built. Six were used as miniatures for filming, two actually flew, and one was built to full scale specifications. Several flying shots were later re-used in Back to the Future Part II (1989).

The story is losely based on an actual event where a Soviet fighter pilot defected to Japan in the mid 1970s.

The cockpit section of the helicopter gunship chasing Gant (Eastwood) is adapted from the Aerospatiale Gazelles used for the filming of the motion picture Blue Thunder (1983)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/

-CM
 
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XEROX

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The MiG-31 looks extremely beautiful, shame about lack of money to develop it full scale (as goes with most of MiGs future ideas)

I’m impressed with the Max Speed and max Ceiling
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muslim282

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Nice pictures even though they were taken from the movie firefox.
FACTs
The JF17 is not based on the mig31.
The mig 31 is an improved version of the mig25 foxbat.
A mig31 is used as a high altitude interceptor, ICBM interceptor and can be used to attack sattelites using its long range missiles.
Their is or was a plane called the Mig 1.44 that looked loosely similar to them pictures. ( russia,s answer to the raptor) but l don,t know what became of this. last l read in A.F.M it was financial problems that caused the project to collapse.

Anybody want to shed any light on this topic.
Pictures would be welcome.
 
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