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Published: 2007-12-15 01:37:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1000; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 22
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Soviet Air Force MiG-25"Foxbat" armed with 4 "Anab" missiles of both beam riding and infrared seeking types,with the North American XB-70 Valkryie trisonic bomber that the Foxbat was originally intended to intercept and destroy. in the end,the U.S. "destroyed" the B-70 itself with a few strokes of a pen and a rubber stamp on a few pieces of paper...[PROJECT CANCELLED]Related content
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I thought they cancelled it because one of the two prototypes got wrecked?
But those bend-down wingtips are pretty sweet.
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that accident actually occured after the bomber program was cancelled,and both specimens had been handed over to NASA for possible SST research.
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it was a long time ago. since 1969,the sole surviving XB-70 has been an expensive exhibit at the USAF museum.
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I wonder why they didn't do any more testing with it? As I recall, the only reason why one of the prototypes crashed was because one of the chase planes (an F-104 Starfighter, not a very stable plane to begin with) flew too close and got sucked in by the huge "sonic wake" created by the XB-70's drooped wingtips, then crashed into the XB-70 and ripped off a tailplane. From what I've read, there wasn't anything wrong with the XB-70 in terms of design, it was just really expensive and complicated (like almost any other plane that the USAF uses nowadays)
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too high flying,and too fast. in clear sky,and at Mach-3 it would have been a very easy and big target for SAM,s. at that kind of speed a plane can only fly in a straight line,and can,t manuver,and no terrain "clutter " to hide in from detection. after Francis Gary Powers was shot down in 1960,we found out the hard way that the Soviets did have AA missiles capable of reaching 6-figure altitudes.
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Yeah, but the SR-71 flies at only slightly higher altitudes than the U-2 and the Valkyrie, and at the same speed as the Valkyrie would have. And the Blackbird's never been shot down. (although the Valkyrie had no stealth whatsoever, while the Blackbird had decent stealth characteristics for a plane of that time period)
Granted, it'd be damn near impossible to get any kind of accuracy at 80, 000 feet, going Mach 3, with the free-fall weapons it was supposed to use.
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the XB-70 was a dino-saurus....obsolete before it even flew....! SAM,s changed all the rules.
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Then why is the B-1, which flies at an even slower speed and lower altitude, still regarded as an effective bomber?
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low altitude=hide under the radar in the ground clutter. lower speed=no supersonic "footprint" that can be tracked by listening posts. stay undetected,stay alive.
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cat purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs contentedly.
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fantastic 
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both were brute force,really! lots of fuel consumption.
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incredibly i NEVER see both models togheter... i like both a lot ^^
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not that this would ever happen in real life!
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These where real? Wow, they look like something out of a sci fi.
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very real indeed. the big white XB-70 bomber never went beyond the experimental/test stage but the USSR did produce a fair number of Foxbats as air defence interceptors.
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Yeah they had alot of neat projects going on. I'm assuming USSR as former russia and not USSR from Irobot? lol.
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yes,the former Soviet Union. neat projects just don,t happen as much anymore,due to cost factors.
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do you have anything of the MiG-31 Foxbat variety?
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well,i might. BTW,the MiG-31 was NATO code-named "Foxhound"
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i remembered that thirty seconds after my first post. my favorite combat aircraft and i forgot the NATO codename for it. >.<
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it happens.....!
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all too often lately.
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just gettin forgetful in our Old Age......!
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i mean Foxhound.
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