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The unarmed "B" version had greater impact than the interceptor when the USSR sent two MiG-25R and two MiG-25RB to Egypt in March 1971, which stayed until July 1972. They were operated by the Soviet 63rd Independent Air Detachment (Det 63), which was established for this mission.
MiG PBSh-1 - proposed attack aircraft, 1940; cancelled in favor of the Ilyushin Il-2; also known as the MiG-4; MiG PBSh-2 - biplane derivative of PBSh-1, 1940; also known as the MiG-6; MiG I-210 (IKh) - MiG-3 re-engined with a ASh-82A radial engine, 1941; also known as MiG-3-82 or MiG-9 (not to be confused with the later MiG-9 jet fighter)
Original engine for the MiG-25P, MiG-25R and variants. R-15BD-300: Improved and more powerful version for MiG-25PD and MiG-25PDS. Engine Lifespan increased up to 1000 Hours. [1] R-15BF2-300: Uprated version. Used in Ye-266M high-performance MiG-25M prototype. MiG-25M aircraft was never put into production
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21I N010103. [citation needed] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PFS N95210102. [citation needed] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 [9] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25PD. [citation needed] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25R [9] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 0390502020. [citation needed] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 2960710039. [citation needed] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 ...
By 1984 the Soviet Union had begun deploying advanced MiG-25R aircraft to the airfield, and a normal complement at the airfield then consisted of 5 to 16 MiG-25R and 7 to 11 MiG-21R reconnaissance aircraft. [1] An Ilyushin Il-76MD (NATO: Candid) destined for Vozzhayevka crash-landed at Astrakhan on June 20, 2000.
Mikoyan was established on 8 December 1939 as the Pilot Design Department of the Aviation Plant #1 and headed by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich.It was later renamed "Experimental Design Bureau named after A.I. Mikoyan" otherwise known as the Mikoyan Design Bureau or Mikoyan OKB. [5]
Dobrich Air Base used to house the 26th Reconnaissance Air Regiment (flying MiG-21Rs/ PFM-Rs/ bis, Su-22M-4/ UM-3Ks and for some time the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25R/U of the 10th Combined Air Corps. Later it became an air base with two squadrons. When Balchik AB de-activated its MiG-21bis/ UMs were transferred to the 26th RAB.
In May 1997, a MiG-25R aircraft from 102 Squadron broke the sound barrier over Islamabad while undertaking one of its many secret reconnaissance missions over Pakistan, emitting a sonic boom. The sound was mistaken for a bomb blast.