MiG-31. Russia's counterpart to America's F-15.

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

First Mach 3+ fighter jet.
First fighter jet equipped with ESA radar.
First fighter jet equipped with 30,000+ pounds thrust engines.
First fighter jet equipped with air launched ballistic missiles.

Dayum!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-31

 

[zectech]

this too:

Russia's MiG-31 Might Have a New Mission: Kill American Satellites
And we might have the photos to prove it.

earlier in September, a Russian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor was spotted at the Gromov Flight Research Institute at the Zhukovsky airfield near the town of Ramenskoye, 40km southeast of Moscow, armed with what appears to be an anti-satellite weapon slung under its belly. The MiG-31, which has the “Bort” number 81 Blue, was photographed by a civilian aircraft spotter, both on the ground and in the air using a telephoto lens. However, according to sources, the photos drew the ire of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which was not happy that the images made it onto the Internet. Most of the photos were removed at press time.

While this is the first time the modified MiG-31 has been spotted out in the open, the program to fit an anti-satellite weapon onto the Foxhound is not new. The project, according to researchers at the Russian think-tank Centre for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), originated with a Soviet anti-space defense program called 30P6 Contact. Among the components of the Contact program was a modified MiG-31D version of the Foxhound, the 79M6 anti-satellite missile and the 45Zh6 Krona space-tracking radar. Additionally, during the same time period, the Soviet Union worked on a modified version of the 79M6 missile that might have called the 95M6.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...ve-new-mission-kill-american-satellites-32387

 

[SHARMA BHOPALI]

this too:

Russia's MiG-31 Might Have a New Mission: Kill American Satellites
And we might have the photos to prove it.

earlier in September, a Russian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor was spotted at the Gromov Flight Research Institute at the Zhukovsky airfield near the town of Ramenskoye, 40km southeast of Moscow, armed with what appears to be an anti-satellite weapon slung under its belly. The MiG-31, which has the “Bort” number 81 Blue, was photographed by a civilian aircraft spotter, both on the ground and in the air using a telephoto lens. However, according to sources, the photos drew the ire of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which was not happy that the images made it onto the Internet. Most of the photos were removed at press time.

While this is the first time the modified MiG-31 has been spotted out in the open, the program to fit an anti-satellite weapon onto the Foxhound is not new. The project, according to researchers at the Russian think-tank Centre for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), originated with a Soviet anti-space defense program called 30P6 Contact. Among the components of the Contact program was a modified MiG-31D version of the Foxhound, the 79M6 anti-satellite missile and the 45Zh6 Krona space-tracking radar. Additionally, during the same time period, the Soviet Union worked on a modified version of the 79M6 missile that might have called the 95M6.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...ve-new-mission-kill-american-satellites-32387

nice machine .

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

this too:

Russia's MiG-31 Might Have a New Mission: Kill American Satellites
And we might have the photos to prove it.

earlier in September, a Russian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor was spotted at the Gromov Flight Research Institute at the Zhukovsky airfield near the town of Ramenskoye, 40km southeast of Moscow, armed with what appears to be an anti-satellite weapon slung under its belly. The MiG-31, which has the “Bort” number 81 Blue, was photographed by a civilian aircraft spotter, both on the ground and in the air using a telephoto lens. However, according to sources, the photos drew the ire of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which was not happy that the images made it onto the Internet. Most of the photos were removed at press time.

While this is the first time the modified MiG-31 has been spotted out in the open, the program to fit an anti-satellite weapon onto the Foxhound is not new. The project, according to researchers at the Russian think-tank Centre for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), originated with a Soviet anti-space defense program called 30P6 Contact. Among the components of the Contact program was a modified MiG-31D version of the Foxhound, the 79M6 anti-satellite missile and the 45Zh6 Krona space-tracking radar. Additionally, during the same time period, the Soviet Union worked on a modified version of the 79M6 missile that might have called the 95M6.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...ve-new-mission-kill-american-satellites-32387

Anti sat weapons isn't new. F-15 also had it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASM-135_ASAT