The MiG-31 Foxhound was the Soviet Union’s answer to high-speed threats like the SR-71 Blackbird and low-flying cruise missiles. Capable of reaching Mach 2.83, it was one of the fastest combat ...

The potential to modernize the Mikoyan MiG-31 all-altitude interceptor has not ... the relevant contractors are improving operational MiG planes to the BM version," the chief executive said.

It is an evolutionary version of the MiG-31 fighters, developed in the 1970s to protect the USSR from a potential strike by American strategic bombers. Russia no longer produces them, so the Sokol ...