A Former Foxhound Pilot Explains How to Catch and Shootdown a Blackbird Spy Plane
Dario Leone
History, Europe
Is it possible?
Military 1st Class Pilot Mikhail Myagkiy, Guards Major (ret.), is one of the PVO (Protivo-vozdushnoy Ororony or air defence force) pilots who executed intercepts of the SR-71 near the border of USSR in the far north. During this period he conducted 14 successful SR-71 intercepts.
In this article, a retired Soviet MiG-31 pilot, Major Mikhail Myagkiy, recalls techniques used during practice intercept attempts on SR-71 Blackbirds... Читать дальше...