The MiG-25 and MiG-31

The MiG-25 and MiG-31

The Russian MiG-25 (1) "Foxbat" and MiG-31(2) "Foxhound" fighters are officially the fastest combat aircraft in the world, and sometimes the aviation specialists have created the question, why those aircraft have been developed. The answer might be that the Russian planned to use them also in ASAT missions, as I have written before. And maybe they are planned to use the supersonic pressure air cone for terminating ground forces. 

But there is still the question, are those aircraft, especially MiG-25 created only for one purpose, shoot down SR-71 "Blackbirds"?(3) Could some aircraft be so important, that there is created the own aircraft type against those aircraft? The MiG-25 is almost as fast as SR-71 "Blackbird", and the shootdown should be easy by using the AA-6 "Acrid" missiles, which were specially made for MiG-25 and later those missiles were installed also under the wing of MiG-31(4). 

Or they were not installed in other aircraft. Sometimes there is claiming that some supersonic jet fighters are created for carrying supersonic weapons and in fact, the normal aerial launched rockets that are shot from MiG-25 style Mach 3 interceptor would travel across the air by speed Mach 3 plus the speed of rocket itself. That means that the fast aircraft would be a terrifying weapon itself, even it is equipped with conventional missiles and rockets. But when we are thinking about SR-71 "Blackbird" there is no reported case, that the craft is ever shot down. In other things like accidents those aircraft have been destroyed, but there are reported five countries (5), what has been shot missiles against SR-71. 

And only one case has been highlighted in those cases. The case, where North Korea has shot missile against that spy plane. Why this case is only, what has been told to publicity? Why other cases, where the SR-71 has been targeted to fire are kept a secret? Is MiG-25 or MiG-31 ever flown, when SR-71 has been flown in Russian airspace? The thing is that "Operation Overflight" was and still is top secret, and the missions of SR-71 were made under the ultimate secrecy. 

But why those attempts to shoot that plane down has ever reported by Russia or its predecessor Soviet Union? When the SR-71 finally retired, there have been rumors, that it has been replaced by some extreme secret and super-fast aircraft, which is known as "Aurora", what is claimed to be marked as SR-72(7). But when we are thinking about this thing the retirement of SR-71 happened finally in 1999, when NASA retired its pieces of that aircraft. The real reason probably was that this technology, which made that aircraft ultimate recon plane was not wanted to let to the hands of Russians. 

And that means that "Aurora" would be 20 years old concept, and the question is, why that aircraft has not been published? When we are thinking about Lockheed-Martin "Falcon" (8) the "Aurora", that claimed to have the capacity of Mach 5, is a moped in the comparison between the Mach 8 capable "Falcon", and the "Hyper X" or X-43 (9) speed record in the atmosphere is Mach 10 that makes the hiding "Aurora" somehow interesting. What is hiding behind that code word?

(1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25

(2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-31

(3)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

(4)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-40_(missile)

(5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrSwtoy1tI

(6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iiVUB6GYbQ

(7)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVukFXXyh80

(8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaiWtH2CuI

(9)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_X-43

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This is what people don't want you to know about ultra-fast aircraft

This is what people don't want you to know about ultra-fast aircraft

When we are thinking about the aircraft like MiG-25 (1) and MiG-31(2), which are the extreme fast interceptors, we might think that those aircraft are somehow harmless. The thing is that the ultimate fast speed would allow them to fly to the outer atmosphere, and they are capable to destroy the low-orbiting satellites. But there are also rumors, that in some of those aircraft robot versions would be installed the nuclear bombs, and they would be used as the cruise missiles, what can return to the base if they are no need to use. 

And sometimes we might wonder, why they are mentioned in the list of the gunships?

Many people believe that effective attack aircraft would need a sophisticated weapon system for being dangerous, but this is not true if we would want to sweep away the entire enemy army. So have you ever heard the term "sonic boom"? The term means the conical pressure wall, which is forming if the aircraft is moving faster than sound. This means that when the aircraft would cross the sound barrier the air would not have time to go away from the front of the plane. That causes effect, where the air molecules are pushed away from the surface of the aircraft with the speed, which increases Mach 1. 

The thing is that the pressure wall would travel faster than the speed of sound, and that turns the air to the wall, which is called "shock wave". This term is taken from the explosives. The pressure impact of explosives causes the pressure wall, which travels in the air by the burning speed of the explosive. A nuclear weapon creates a pressure effect by increasing the temperature very fast at the point, where the explosion happens, and the expanding gas is the thing, that is called a shock wave. 

The thing is that if the aircraft, what travels by speed Mach 3, would fly very low, the pressure wall would be hard as steel, and that thing would cause terrible damages in the area, where that thing affects. But what if we would install loudspeakers to the nose of MIG-31 or MiG-25, which are the Mach 3 interceptors? That thing would cause the movement of the air molecules would get the speed of aircraft behind them, and this means that the pressure wall would travel 4000 kilometers per hour to the target. This is the reason, why the aircraft cannon is effective. 

 If the speed of the ammunition of the cannon in a stable position is 1000 kilometers per hour, would the aircraft cannon, what uses the same ammunition would be installed in the aircraft, what is flying 1500 km/h, the speed of ammunition will be 2500 km/h. This makes the aircraft cannons more effective than the similar cannons, which is installed on a stable platform. And if the aircraft is flying speed of Mach 3 it can make the ballistic jump, which makes it capable to destroy low orbiting satellites. 

(1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25

(2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-31

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Russian_Air_Force_MiG-25.jpg

The world under memes and trolls

The world under memes and trolls

Memes and trolls are part of everyday politics. And as you might see those things are an extremely effective way to scatter and control people. The thing is that the master of those kinds of information actions is a Russian troll factory. The way how those people are acting is always similar. Most of the data, what that instance would deliver is targeted to the leaders of the nations, as we have seen in the "Panama-case".

At the same times, the media is filled with the films of the military personnel, who are kicking nice karate-kicks and introducing highly motivated military exercise and skills, what might look like a little bit scary. The message is clear "if you mess with us, we will crush you". One of the models, what that troll makers use is the use of superlative nuclear weapons as the introduction, how people should afraid Russian military. In the real-life, the data, what is shared about that type of weapons is somehow filtered.

The destruction and effective areas of those nuclear weapons have ever shown, and the thing that the most powerful nuclear weapon in the world, the "Tsar bomba" what power is estimated 50-60 megatons has created the pressure wall, what was orbiting Eart three times. This means that it would cause very heavy damages in Sankt-Petersburg, even if it will be detonated over Riga.

The high powerful nukes are a scary thing. They are also acting the shield and cover for creation of a new type of nukes. But I will write about those nukes later in this text.

But there is one detail missing when the data of that detonation, what happen above Novaja-Zemlya in 1961. The thing is what was the altitude, where the measurements were done? In the ground level, the pressure impact would have a very big effect, but the air and mountains would resist the pressure wall. If we think that the same weapon would detonate underwater, the results would be the giant tsunami and the destruction in both coasts of the ocean would suffer very big damage.

All ships would be destroyed in a large area because the pressure would cut the keel or break the bottom of those ships, and that kind of destruction could face every ship in the entire ocean. The pressure wall would travel on the ocean floor in very thin material, and that would give the water an extremely strong effect. If this bomb would detonate in the Pacific ocean, the pressure impulse would travel three years in the canyons of the bottom with power, what is strong enough to destroy the submarine.

New "surgical" nuclear weapons are easy to carry under the fast attack aircraft. And even the jet fighters like MIG-25 can find new roles when they benefit the most modern technology.

But there is another type of nuclear weapons, which are as well scary. Those small-sized nuclear weapons are called SADM (Special Attack Demolition Munition) or "briefcase nukes". The size of those nuclear weapons is very small, and there are rumors, that some laboratories have tested the fission- or neutron bombs, what are made by using californium or neptunium.

The size of those weapons might be like some bread and the detonation system would just push the bites of this highly radioactive material together. The system would install in a briefcase, and if the case is covered by using leaf gold, that nuclear weapon could easily slip in the building, and then it can cause very bad damages. Small-sized nukes are base of so-called surgical nuclear weapons, what can installed in bazookas or shoot to target by using small-size missiles.

There are tales about the Hellfire or AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, what are equipped with those surgical nuclear weapons. And also Russian MiG-25 "Foxbat" is claimed to carry miniature nuclear missiles. The thing why some military specialists believe those rumors, is that MiG-25, what is Mach 3-class interceptor carries only four AA-6 "Acrid" missiles, could be suitable also for use of that kind of attack plane. The reason, why this thing has brought in mind, is that this very old but extremely fast aircraft is still in service. And new technology gives new roles also for old-timer aircraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25