Fastest fighters

Check my second post in this topic...
The point I am making is that that Mig-25 clocked doing Mach 3.2 was a fighter variant... The Soviets did not begin exporting Foxbat-B's to Syria until 1975. As I have said before, it does not matter about drag created by the missiles, The Foxbat-B has the same engines as the Foxbat-E, and those engines are subjcet to the same limitations... namely that they will begin to destroy themselves once the fighter approaches Mach 3.0... The drag created by the missiles (missiles are quite streamlined after all) is negligable in the context of speed, however attached missiles do give the plane a lower operational ceiling. Even if what you are saying was true, then a Foxbat-E could simply remove its combat load and reach the same speed as a Foxbat-B... I have never seen any source which has stated that the Foxbat-B is faster than the Foxbat-E, but if you could provide a source which specifically states this then i may be inclined to agree with you...

 

Smeg, no pint taken (i mean point.... ), please read my post...it was a soviet MiG 25 R wich eventually after going Mach 3.2 landed at an egypt airbase (it was flying in egyptian colors altough they were Russian...but definitly not Syrian).

Fact is that altough the R and P (Recon and fighter version) went into production at the same time the R was earlier in service.

Fact is that they are not the same (the wing layout is different....smaller for the R making it the fastest version) and R is the only one to have been confirmed to fly that fast....but still if a P without armament flys as fast it can't intercept anything i guess.


The MiG-25R had a slightly different wing configuration from the MiG-25P, with a shorter span and a straight, not slightly cranked, leading edge, with a sweep of 41.03 degrees. The tailfins of all but the first production examples were also longer than those of the interceptor variant, with fuel tankage incorporated into the fins, and the engine exhausts were slightly longer as well.

please read:
http://www.vectorsite.net/avmig25_1.html

 

One of the best references on MiG-25 (lot's of text, pic's, drawings and colour profiles):
MiG-25 "Foxbat" and MiG-31 "Foxhound": Russia's defensive frontline by Yefim Gordon (pdf) ( AeroFax ISBN 1 85780 064 8 )

 

the mosquito for sure

 

You are joking, right? :-?

 

It was a twin engined plane that could hit 400mph as a bomber with a full load.....easy way to avoid a fight with a BF109 or FW190

 

...and was the fastest fighter exactly how?

 

Not the absolutly fastest (fastest prop fighter of WW2 was the German Do 335) but certainly one of the top ten I would say (top 15 for sure....)

 

The Do 335 wasn't the fastest at 474 mph, it was the P-51H at 487 mph.
The Do 335 didn't see any operational service, but the P-51H saw some limited service against Japan in the last months of WW2.

 

The P-51H was too late to see action in the war in Europe. By the late summer of 1945, some P-51Hs had been issued to a few operational units. These units were in the process of working up to operational status when the war in the Pacific ended with the Japanese surrender. None had the opportunity to see any combat.