The Soviets began working on a replacement for the flawed MiG-25 in the early 1970s. By 1975, a prototype known as the ...
Both the MiG-25 and MiG-31 are Cold War-era tools designed to be ... This Russian interceptor could achieve a top speed of Mach 2.8 and broke 29 records involving altitude and climbing rate ...
which can bring the Foxhound to nearly 34,000 feet in 8 minutes. Below is a shot of the engine's afterburners in action. Source: Globalsecurity.org. The MiG-31 needs about 3,900 feet to take off.