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Originally Posted by Captain Drunk
To do the Mach 3 talk, you gotta do the Mach 3 walk
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You should make that your signature, by now you've said it so many times.
Anyway, I think it was IPhoenix armed F-14s which took on intruding MiG-25s when the MiGs engines burnt out, if I'm not mistaken. A couple of MiG-25s strayed or were sent into territory patrolled by F-14s and the F-14s found them and launched Phoenix's. The MiG-25s detected the Phoenix launch on RWR, turned tail, and ran. They tried to cross or crossed Mach 3 and evaded the Phoenixs' but their engines got burnt out so badly that they eventually crashed or became useless. Although the Phoenix missile didn't directly kill the MiGs, indirectly, these were the only recorded combat Phoenix kills ever.
Also, MiG-25s were tracked flying at Mach 3.2 over Israel but it was said that the engines were completely burnt out and destroyed. Here's a
link.