• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    27 days ago

    The MiG-31 is only good at one thing: speed. That bad boy can intercept damn near anything but it can’t turn on a dime or go too fast unless shear forces tear its wings and airframe off. It’s pretty much a cool looking paper tiger.

    • towerful@programming.dev
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      27 days ago

      This seems like a fantastic example of “if a metric becomes a target, it fails in being a metric”.

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        27 days ago

        Eh, it works for what it is. The whole plane is basically a manned stage-1 of an AA missile.

    • DogWater@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Are you thinking of the mig 25? The foxhound was supposedly much more capable at low speed than the foxbat. Genuinely curious