Evgeniy Golovach
04/29/2022, 11:47
Text: Anton Valagin
Photo: Vitaly Ankov / RIA Novosti
The list of aircraft participating in the Victory Parade over Red Square on May 9 includes four MiG-31Is. The novelty may turn out to be a "space" modification of a high-altitude fighter-interceptor.
The flight plan of the MiG-31I was published by the RF Ministry of Defense and its official newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda . The four interceptors make up group No. 11 of the air parade.
It can be assumed that this is a modification of the MiG-31I Ishim, designed to launch small satellites into orbit and based on the anti-satellite version of the MiG-31D.
In 1997, the Mikoyan Design Bureau began developing a system for launching spacecraft into low Earth orbit using a modified MiG-31 high-altitude interceptor. The three-stage launch vehicle was planned to be launched from the anti-satellite version of the MiG-31D, flying at an altitude of 17 kilometers at a speed of 3,000 km/h. A massive launch vehicle is suspended between the engine nacelles - like the anti-satellite 79M6 "Contact". Both missiles were created in the Design Bureau "Vympel".
The complex was named MiG-31I "Ishim". It allows launching vehicles weighing up to 160 kilograms into an orbit with a height of 600 km.
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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