Mig Monday Video

[jeanba]

Enjoy:

 

[Nesher]

In the first part they only carried 4 missiles each.. that's a bit strange, no? or for practice it's legit...?

[jeanba]

First part, mostly Mig25 ?

[+streakeagle]

MiG-25s, as originally built, carried 4xAA-6 Acrid and had no gun. Theoretically 2xIRM and 2xRHM. They were built to intercept high altitude Mach 3 aircraft like the XB-70 and SR-71. They were not dogfighters and had no lookdown/shootdown capability. The most useful variants were the recce versions, which were poor man's SR-71s. An Iraqi MiG-25PD most likely shot down an F/A-18 with an AA-6 during Desert Storm.

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LCDR Scott Speicher was flying an F/A-18 Hornet fighter, BuNo 163484, when he was shot down by Iraqi aircraft 100 miles west of Baghdad, on the night of January 17, 1991, the first night of Operation Desert Storm.