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.

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 ...

Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that a MiG-31 fighter jet crashed in the Murmansk Region while flying a training sortie MURMANSK, April 26. /TASS/. The pilots of the MiG ...