Advanced MIG-25 found in Iraq? see pics...

[M1911Owner]

Correction: The Mach 6+ Aurora spy plane does not exist.

 

[spartacus2002]

Looks like the Men In Black got to M1911 owner... he shouldn't have spilled the beans to Mulder and Scully so fast

 

[Destructo6]

When I posted yesterday, I took a look at this page, just to make sure I wasn't brain farting:

http://www.wvi.com/~lelandh/mig25.html

MIG25 vs SR71. It details the defection and the Mach 2.8 restriction. Still, that's freaky fast.

Oh, and I was excluding rockets and such.

 

[smokemaker]

Whup whup whup of black helicopters approaching.
The MiG 25 isn't much of interest... the Israelis got to be pretty good a snap up shoot downs on them with their F-15's. The avionics suite may be of interest, but they were gonna require a good bit of work to fly them after burying them in that awful sand. Ever see what a little sand does to the compressor sections of a jet engine?? They'd of been better off to sink them in the lakes surrounding the presidential palaces if they wanted to fly them ever again. (Personally, you couldn't pay me enough to fly in a Soviet built, Iraqi maintained P.O.S.)

 

[MicroBalrog]

That's the first time I've heard of the Mig-25 being called "advanced" since 1972 or so

The Russians are now retrofitting them with new electronics/canopies/weapons.