hello everyone you are watching a military one today we will show why
my g31 russia's supersonic interceptor what makes the myg-31 so special in early february
of last year the russian central military district conducted an exercise against a notional intruder
and while such exercises aren't that unexpected this drew attention as it involved to make 31 vm
a supersonic high altitude interceptor fighter the pilots reportedly performed around 30 sorties in
the drills which were conducted near the euro mountains and involved practicing measures
on their own to detect track force to land and notionally eliminate airspace intruders
the pilots visually detected an aircraft and locked it on the central military district's
press office told tas the crews of my g 31bm interceptor fighters acted in pairs forcing
the intruder to climb to ultimate altitudes my g 31 fox sound the history the myklian myg-31
was developed during the cold war era as a home defense interceptor codenamed fox sound by nato
the long-range two-seat supersonic aircraft has maintained a certain mystique in the west in part
because there remains much speculation over all of its capabilities it took its maiden
flight in september 1975 and was designed to work efficiently in all weather conditions derived from
the myg 25 foxbat interceptor and equipped with state-of-the-art digital avionics the
aircraft was never exported by the soviet union and of the more than 500 produced most remained
in service with the russian air force while some 30 are in service with the kazakhstan air force
while syria had reportedly ordered eight of the myg-31e aircraft in 2007 the order was
suspended due to israeli pressure along with a lack of syrian funds turkish news media has
reported that six of the aircraft may have been delivered for use by the syrian arab air force
but russia has denied that it actually sold the aircraft to syria during the late cold war
a my g-31 foxhound may have been used to chase after the u.s military's sr 71 blackbird spy plane
and reportedly locked on with its missiles but as the american reconnaissance aircraft
was never employed to actually overfly soviet airspace
whether the incidents occurred has remained a matter of conjecture at best
more recently it has been reported that the russian military had upgraded the mind g 31
fox sound and has explored the option of arming the home defense interceptor
with hypersonic missiles which would make the airframe a very serious threat despite the fact
that the aircraft dates back to the 1970s russia has an established trend to preserving original
aircraft designs by integrating modern weapons in avionics and this has resulted in the myg
31bm upgrade from a decade ago the upgrades provided network-centric combat control
as well as phased array radar the upgraded myg 31bm can also employ our 33 long-range air-to-air
missiles and are 73 short-range air-launched weapons it is powered by 2d30 f6 engines
which provide a takeoff thrust of 15 500 kgf each and the fighter interceptor has a maximum speed
of 3 000 km h and a ceiling of 20 600 meters it is also outfitted with a mid-air refueling system it
is unknown how many of the original myg-31s have been upgraded to the 31bm standard but it has been
reported that it is less than 100 of the original 500 aircraft produced during the soviet era