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Originally Posted by Captain Drunk
We’re talking fighter planes here and so, Foxbat wins the Mach race at 3.2.
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Mig 25 was never a fighter. It's designed as an interceptor. Actually, it was designed as a missile carrier guided by ground control. The pilot takes off, follows instructions to the target, fires missiles, then lands. If it had to fight another fighter as in make some maneuvers, it would be dead in 2 min.
It was still an extraordinary machine though, for the technology behind it was fairly crude. It served well as a recon platform. It would be adequate as a missile carrier. But fighter, it was not.