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As many other people pointed out a slight change in direction would be able to put the SR-71 way off course of a MiG-25 intercept path.
by wil421 5y ago
As many other people pointed out a slight change in direction would be able to put the SR-71 way off course of a MiG-25 intercept path.
- hef19898 5y agoBit it would also put the SR-71 of course by quite a bit. If that happens early enough any hypothetical MiG-25 mission would have been a success either way.
- sudosysgen 5y agoNo, it would not. The SR-71 is only very slightly (~200km/h) faster than the MiG-25, and if it were to make any sizeable turn, it would have to slow down significantly, perhaps even to a lower speed than it's pursuer.
- wil421 5y agoIt is highly doubtful a MiG-25 is just waiting up in the air for a plane to intercept and just happened to be going at it’s top speed. It is much more likely they will have to scramble a few jets for the intercept. I believe that SR-71 didn’t fly over Russian airspace due to the U2 incident. It’s also likely an AWACs or two are around and could detect the jets scrambling.