Unleashing the Beast - MiG-31 Interceptors Undergo Jaw-Dropping Upgrades

Then the MiG-31BM is a complete. The new MiG-31K project. Army Upgrade channel brings you the events of the defense industry in different countries of the world. The Sokol Aviation Plant in Nizhny Novgorod has handed over to the Russian Defense Ministry a batch of MiG-31 fighter-interceptors, which have been repaired and modernized. The work was carried out under the state defense order. The MiG-31 is a Soviet, now Russian, two-seat supersonic all-weather long-range fighter-interceptor. It is the first Soviet combat aircraft of the fourth generation. The first flight of the MiG-31 took place in 1975, with prototype chief pilot Alexander Fedotov taking to the air. The aircraft was accepted for service on May 6, 1981. It was produced between 1975 and 1994 at the Sokol aircraft factory in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), and more than 500 units were built.