Anon

According to the guiness book of world records:

Fastest aircraft with air-breathing engine
On November 16, 2004, NASA's (USA) unmanned Hyper-X (X-43A) aircraft reached Mach 9.68, almost ten times the speed of sound. The X-43A was boosted to an altitude of 33,000 m (115,000 ft) by a Pegasus rocket launched from beneath a B52-B aircraft. The revolutionary 'scramjet' aircraft then successfully burned its engine before plunging into the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...recordid=60157

And:

"Fastest Winged Aircraft
On October 3, 1967, an X-15A-2 piloted by USAF Major William J. "Pete" Knight, was released from its B-52 mother plane at 10,668 m. (35,000 ft.) above the Mojave Desert where it achieved an absolute speed record of Mach 6.7."
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...recordid=54497

According to Encyclopedia Astronautica(or any of the three other sites i checked) the "Mig-105 Spiral" achieved no great speeds. No mention of any sort of speed records is mentioned AT ALL on any of those sites.
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mig10511.htm

urmomma158

lol! You make me laugh the Mig 25 doesnt have a ceiling that high. Anyway do you have any sources to back up your statement there Drunk or are you going to spit more BS like you always do. The HyperX is Mach, 10 stick that up your *****. Besides F 15's have proven superior by shooting down Foxbats please go away.

Jimmy

He hasnt given any credible sources yet, why start now?

"Fighter" is a relative term. The Foxbat and Foxhound are interceptors, nothing more, nothing less. They're very capable interceptors, nothing more, nothing less.

Maximus

Where do you get your facts from??

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Anon

He's right about that one:

Military aircraft absolote altitude record(non level flight):
"Height (ft)....Date.............Plane type.............Pilot.........
123,523.58 Aug. 31, 1977 MIG-25E-266M , Alexander Fedotov(USSR) , Country: USSR"
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004556.html

However, that is one of many altitude records, and it is the only one held by the Mig25.

For instance:

Military aircraft absolute altitude level flight:
Height (ft).........Date ........Plane type ...........Pilot ......................Place
85,068.997 July 28, 1976 SR71 Capt. Robert C. Helt (USAF) Beale AFB, Calif.

Absolute altitude, carrier-airplane launched:
X-15, 314,750 feet, July 1967

gunnut

And that's only the disclosed number. SR-71's absolute performance numbers are still top secret.

Anon

The absolute max altitude of SR-71 in a climb is probably well in excess of 150,000 feet. Of course...that is just a guess.

highsea

Lol. Another MiG concept, you mean.

Only one subsonic scale model ever actually flew...

*yawn*

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urmomma158

Besides it cant touch the HyperX or X 15 for that matter.

lemontree

Gents,
We are arguing over a silly issue. The thread was about bidding farewell by the IAF to its spy planes. Till the comparision started with the SR-71. IMO, both planes MiG-25 and SR-71 were excellent spy planes. The Mig-25 was the poor mans SR-71, and it worked well till some AFs decided to use them as fighters, thats when its record got tarnished. The Mig-25 recce flights for IAF have been very successful and we are grateful for the service the plane rendered us.

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Anon

Everyone was just responding vigorously to an attempt to poison the board with Russian KooLAiD.

Serbianpsyco

The SR-71 is the fastest and highflying jet but which aircraft is the fastest Jet fighter and thats the MIG 25.

Captain Drunk

Agreed, but Foxbat was and still is the spy with a lisence to kill, while SR-71 was merely the undercover war photographer gathering information

Then again it’s not like Foxbat was a poor man’s SR-71, X-15 was a rich man’s Ferrari or the Mir Space Station was another’s million dollar luxury yatch. We’re talking fighter planes here and so, Foxbat wins the Mach race at 3.2. SR-71, X-15, etc. were for recee, research, and other purposes while X-43A wasn’t even a manned aircraft. If Russia wanted, they could have had their very own version of the X-15, its just that they didn’t think it seemed fit sending Cosmonauts for hypersonic joyrides to the edge of space then returning back to base with nothing gained but high static in their underwears

But if it came to pure speed, irrespective of the propulsion system, i.e. scramjets, rocket-propulsion, etc., there are several Russian Spaceplanes like MiG 105-11, Uragan Space Interceptor, BOR-5, LKS, etc. that were designed to be launched from Tupolevs and climb under their own power to subspace orbitals at hypersonic speeds, some exceeding Mach 18.

lemontree

That is an understatement for an aircraft that has never had to be buried under the sand and has never been shot down.

Captain Drunk

For the high-flyer spy, a state funeral with full military honours was but apt