Source: Globalsecurity.org. The MiG-31 needs about 3,900 feet to take off. Source: Globalsecurity.org. Unlike the MiG-25, it has a backseat for the Weapons Systems Officer to operate the Zaslon radar.

The MiG-31, Russia's fastest jet ... The MiG is a MiG-31BM interceptor fighter that crashed on take-off in a non-combat-related incident in Crimea.

MOSCOW, May 5. /TASS/. Ten MiG-31 fighter jets (NATO reporting name: Foxhound) fitted with the air-launched Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missile are on test combat duty, Russian Deputy Defense ...

During the drills, the Northern Fleet’s MiG-31 fighter climbed to an altitude of over 11,000 meters over the Barents Sea where it intercepted and notionally destroyed the intruder MOSCOW ...