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General Background

The MiG-25 “Foxbat” is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft. The prototype flew in 1964 and entered service in 1970 with an operational speed of Mach manufacture the MiG-25.

The Aircraft

The first American casualty of Operation Desert Storm came on the night of January 17, 1991. LCDR Scott “Spike” Speicher was piloting an F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 “Sunliners” when his aircraft crashed. According to a fellow pilot on the same mission the F/A-18C was at 28,000 feet and hit by an R-40 missile fired from an Iraqi MiG- 25PDS believed to be flown by Lt. Zuhair Dawood of the IrAF 84th Squadron. LCDR Speicher was listed as MIA but later changed to KIA.

Specifications :

Number Built:	1,190
Crew:	1 Pilot
Dimensions
Length:	64 ft 10 in (19.75 m)
Wingspan:	45 ft 11.5 in (14.01 m)
Height:	20 ft ¼ in (6.10 m)
Weight:
Empty:	44,080 lb (20,000 kg)
Loaded:	80,952 lb (36,720 kg)
Performance
Power Plant:	2 x Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning turbojets
Dry Thrust:	16,524 lbf (73.5 kN) per engine
Afterburner Thrust:	22,494 lbf (100.1 kN) per engine
Maximum speed:	High Altitude – Mach 2.83 1,920 mph (3,2000 km/h) Mach 3.2 2,170 mph (3,470 km/h) continuous engine limit
	Low Altitude – 746 mph (1,200 km/h) (648 kts)
Range:
Mission:	1,075 miles (1,730 km) (935 nmi)
Ferry:	1,600 miles (2,575 km) (1,390 nmi)
Service Celling:	67,915 ft (20,700 m) with 4 missiles
RoC:	40,950 ft/min (208 m/s)
	Time To 65,615 ft (20,000 m) – 8.9 minutes
Armament:	2 x Radar-Guided R-40R (AA-6 “Acrid”) air-to-air missiles
	2 x Infrared-Guided R-40T missiles
Avionics:	RP-25 Smerch radar
	RV-UM or RV-4 radar altimeter
Variants of the MiG-25:	MiG-25P Foxbat A MiG-25RB Foxbat B MiG-25RBV Foxbat B MiG-25BBT Foxbat B MiG-25R Foxbat B MiG-25PU Foxbat C MiG-25RU Foxbat C MiG-25U Foxbat C MiG-25RBK Foxbat D MiG-25RBS Foxbat D MiG-25RBSh Foxbat D MiG-25RBF Foxbat D MiG-25PD Foxbat E MiG-25PDS Foxbat E MiG-25BM Foxbat F