From the Middle East to the Iron Curtain… the definitive combat history of the Mikoyan-Gurevich 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.
© 2021 Spoken Realms (Ljudbok): 9781665111508
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 19 juni 2021
From the Middle East to the Iron Curtain… the definitive combat history of the Mikoyan-Gurevich 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.
© 2021 Spoken Realms (Ljudbok): 9781665111508
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 19 juni 2021
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Fatemeh
27 juli 2023
A good book, thanks.I saw them with my own eyes over Tehran. It was on September 22, 1980. I was standing near the airport when two Migs bombed the area right in front of me.Later, they returned in pairs every night, flying at an altitude of 100 thousand feet, and bombed Tehran.
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