0 MiG-25R Foxbat-B – Mach 3.2 Aircraft

MiG-25R Foxbat-B – Mach 3.2 Aircraft - 1959, the Soviet Union focused on creating aircraft that can be used to intercept and surveillance activities as well.

Like several other Russian aircraft, the aircraft is designed to compete with U.S. aircraft such as the Lockheed SR-71 and North American XB-70.

In March 1964, the MiG-25R Foxbat its maiden flight and soon in 1969, signed legislation to allow testing of the aircraft with reconnaissance capabilities and tests conducted in 1970.

In 1972 the design refinement has been used by the Soviet Air Force.

The aircraft is equipped with automatic fire control system and large radar system with look-down and shoot-down after 1980 when all MiG updated.

MiG-25R Foxbat is also able to use the bombs to bomb stationary free fall from a height of 65,000 feet while flying at supersonic speeds.

There is also a system installed that allows the aircraft to drop 10 bombs at once!

What they say now?

Various countries around the world still use the MiG-25R. Places like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Algeria all have access to the aircraft.

Of course, Russia as a major aircraft craftsmen continue to use it. Approximately 39 units of the MiG-25 units have been built.

While some still flown, others have museum, including those in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

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0 SR-71 Blackbird Aircraft

SR-71 Blackbird Fastest Aircraft -  first introduced in 1966, the SR-71 Blackbird was crowned as the fastest manned reconnaissance until four decades later. Produced by Lockheed SR-71 was designed by Clarence "Kelly" Johnson an important figure in the history of aviation.

Debuting on December 22, 1964, and began his career in the military in January 1966. SR-71 capable of flying at mach 3.2 even more.

SR-71 is a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft are highly vulnerable to Soviet air defense because of the speed and capability of flying higher and comes with the ability to escape.

In fact, this plane never crashed by the enemy, 12 units from 32 units ever built were destroyed in accidents. The aircraft painted with the new technology that allows hard to track radar. The overall shape of the aircraft is also one of the first stealth aircraft technology.

What they say now?

Today you will not find SR-71 flying in the clouds. Instead, you will only find in the museum, or if you work for Lockheed in Palmdale, you'll find three of them locked in their hangar warehouse.

SR-71 was permanently retired in 1998 when Congress and the U.S. Air Force decided the plane was very expensive for the maintenance and operational costs.

Although retired for the first time in 1991, Congress decided to re-activate a small fleet to be used during the Cold War.

Awesome upgrades to the aircraft, such as advanced radar systems and data links that can send images in real time, the SR-71 remained saved at hanggar in 1998 for good.

If you ever want to see traces of the greatness of SR-71, you can find them in a variety of museum space and at the Air Force base in Tucson, Arizona; Edwards Air Force Base in California; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, as well as numerous museums in California, England, Ashland, Nebraska, Ohio, Utah, and Virginia.

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