Word: foxbats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American and Soviet in size, but comprises mostly various home-built versions of the MiG-19, a Soviet fighter of the 1950s based on now outdated technology. Facing the obsolescent Chinese MiGs are some of the Kremlin's hottest new war planes, including the high-flying MiG-25 Foxbat...
...foreign fighter in the air today, including the Soviet Union's MiG-25 Foxbat, is deadlier than the twin-engine, $16 million F-15 that the Carter Administration wants to sell to Israel and Saudi Arabia. "It's beautiful," says Brigadier General John T. Chain Jr., who has been flying F-15s since they became operational three years ago. "It's the-first fighter aircraft that has all the capabilities a pilot wants: high thrust, tight turning, great visibility and every switch in the right place in a cockpit designed for the pilot...
Country Tinker. The plane turned out to be a crude, early version of the Foxbat, which the Russians designed 15 years ago to bring down the supersonic B-70, a U.S. bomber that never became operational. Belenko's MiG was equipped with obsolescent electronic targeting and radar systems. Its maximum range of 1,200 miles was short compared with the American F-4 Phantom fighter's 2,100 miles. Belenko's plane was also vastly inferior to the reconnaissance version of the Foxbat, which the U.S. has tracked over much longer ranges in the Middle East. Perhaps...
...crucial element of the MiG-25 was missing: the four air-to-air missiles the plane ordinarily carries. Probably to increase his speed, the Soviet pilot had flown his plane to the West while on a training flight without the heavy weapons that experts need to calculate the Foxbat's true military capability. Belenko himself was of less help than intelligence had hoped. Although he was apparently cooperating with his U.S. interrogators in a "safe house" near Washington, it seemed unlikely that he knew anything more than the mechanics of his plane...
Apparently unperturbed, the Japanese prepared last week to return the Foxbat to the Russians. The angry Soviets will send a freighter to take delivery of their aircraft at the port of Hitachi. The Japanese coolly demanded that the Russians compensate them for facilities damaged when Belenko overran the runway on Hokkaido and for the expense of dismantling, crating and transporting the plane from Hyakuri airbase, 90 miles north of Tokyo, to Hitachi...