What stops SR-71 project was achievements in area of taking pictures from
the orbit and Soviet potential to build land-air missiles.
"machf" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:14:17 -0400, Venik wrote:

Alan Minyard wrote:

And this would explain the fact that the Mig-25 never managed to
intercept
an SR how? The Mig simply could not catch an SR-71, and probably
could not even track it. The SR-71 succeeded, the Mig failed.

I think you are mistaking an interceptor for a race car. You see, it
does not need to exceed or even to match the speed of its target to
complete an intercept. MiG-25's main drawback was its missiles. Other
than that, the MiG-31 was succesfull in retiring the SR-71.

I guess it would just need to get close enough to fire a missile at it.
At least that's the concept of "interceptor" as I understand it, it's
not a dogfighter...

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