A pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet
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#2"You must think in Russian"
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#3"You must think in Russian"
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#4"You must think in Russian"
I have to admit this was exactly the first thing that came to mind. However, it works in this case because the defecting pilot was Russian. lol
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#5Another very interesting aircraft is the experimental Su-47, with only one ever being built. Its forward-swept wing design make it a treat for the eye.
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#6I love that the Japanese sent it back to Russia with a bill for shipping and the damage to the airfield.
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#7I love that the Japanese sent it back to Russia with a bill for shipping and the damage to the airfield.
Just Japanese things.
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#8Another very interesting aircraft is the experimental Su-47, with only one ever being built. Its forward-swept wing design make it a treat for the eye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-47
I saw in the article they mentioned new prototypes in the near future. You think they'll have something to unveil in the next few years?
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#9Hard to believe the Soviets were using vacuum tubes instead of transistors In hindsight, the MiG 25, which the West had been so worried about, turned out to be a ‘paper tiger’. Its massive radar was years behind US models because instead of transistors it used antiquated vacuum tubes (a technology that did, however, make it impervious to electromagnetic pulses from nuclear blasts). The huge engines required so much fuel that the MiG was surprisingly short-ranged. It could take-off quickly, and fly in a straight line very fast to fire missiles or take pictures.
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#10> The Soviets had not built the ‘super-fighter’ the Pentagon had feared, says Smithsonian aviation curator Roger Connor, but an inflexible aircraft built to do a very particular job.
There is no mention what MiG-25 was designed for. Its task was to intercept nuclear bombers flying over Soviet Union and it did this task pretty well.
Because it used steel it was cheap and easy to service. At that time soviets had lot of experience with titanium (space, submarines), but expensive plane similar to SR-71 would not cover entire Soviet Union.