LATEST UPDATES ON MIKOYAN EXPERIMENTAL MIG-41 FIREFLY

Mig-31 vs Mig-41: Mig-31 cockpit

Latest updates coming from Russia indicates that Mikoyan's 6th generation experimental Mig-41 PAK DP fighter plane's (codenamed Firefly) which Russia claims to have limited ASAT (anti-satellite), space warfare, and laser capabilities, induction in Russian Air Force will be delayed further due to financial constraints arising from the dip in oil prices and Covid-19. Steep fall in oil prices and Covid-19 have hit the Russian economy very badly. Recently Russia was also forced to withdraw some of its military technicians and soldiers from Libya and Syria due to this. Now Mig-41 induction will take place around in the mid 2040s. 

Mig-31 vs Mig-41: Mig-31 with Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missile

Both Russia and America are competing with each other for the 6th generation fighter and Mig-41 is Russia's Mikoyan most ambitious project with ASAT and interceptor capabilities. Russian media has also reported that Mig-41 will be fitted with laser weapons. Russia started its interceptor jet program at the beginning of the Cold War, the latest Russian interceptor is the Mig-31, the Mig-31 can fly at a max speed of 4,000 kmph or 3+ Mach, which is 3 times the speed of sound while the latest American interceptor of the Lockheed Martin is YF-12, which is capable of flying at 3.35 Mach. Russia, in order to overtake America in the interceptor game, has started developing the next generation of interceptors with better features capable of reaching hypersonic speeds of 5-6 Machs, the aircraft is the Mikoyan Mig-41 hypersonic interceptor codenamed firefly. 

The Mig 41 is an interceptor jet currently being used by the Russian air force and manufactured by Mikoyan. Mig-41 being a top-secret program not much is known about the plane, although Russian sources have confirmed that the Mig-41 will have all the features of the Mig-31 interceptor plane and will be an advanced version of the Mig-31 with the power of flying at hypersonic speeds. Russia test pilots have claimed that the Mig-41 can reach speeds of up to 5 Mach. Aircraft can only reach hypersonic speeds by using a turbo ramjet engine. Components of a ramjet engine basically comprise of a multilevel fan rotated by a turbine, which is driven by hot gases coming from a string of small motors mounted on a turbine inlet the turbine gases mix with a fan discharge air and combust with the compressor air before exhausting through supersonic interceptor's nozzle. Work on Mig-41 started back in 2014 on grounds of the Mig-321 and Mig-301 interceptor programs of the late 1990s.

Once commissioned the Mig-41 will replace the Mig-31 interceptor which is the foundation of Russia's air defense system. MiG-31 was created in 1975. Mig-31 took part in exercises in polar part of Urals, where it went up almost above the Earth's atmosphere. It was working at the ceiling of its capabilities. It destroyed imaginary targets. Two aircraft regiments of the Russian Air Force participated in this. All the tasks were performed in time and in the way commanders intended. This is the reason MiG-31 is still in the Russian Air Force and shows excellent flying and combat capabilities. It is equipped with AAM (air-to-air missiles) and with phased array radar for interceptors of this class. MiG-41 in reality is a hyper-fast long-range fighter-interceptor, which once again will be able to fly almost in lower levels of space.  

This machine will be able to shoot down not only missiles that are low maneuverable targets that are flying within the atmosphere but also missiles that are going out of Earth's atmosphere and can also hit satellites. A machine of this category, a machine which specializes not only on dogfights but the destruction of enemy's satellite targets is worthy only of great superpowers with big continental width and potential aggression from a country with ICBM missile capabilities at that time MIG-41 with ASAT capabilities will be very helpful and why this machine should be able to shoot down satellites is also understandable because, at the present time, it is literally impossible to conduct warfare without satellite weaponry. And in addition, today nobody calculates the distance to the target without satellites, or simply doesn't navigate. Basically, it is impossible to perform combat tasks without satellites and to blind an adversary is something MiG-41 will possibly be capable of doing and which will be the cheap version of what Americans are developing that is Boeing corporation 6th Generation ASAT fighter named Project  'X' or X-Planes/F/A-XX fighter, which for the past few years flies to the orbit regularly allegedly as a space cargo ship. According to Russian Media, THE RUSSIAN RADARS WHICH IS KEEPING TAB ON THESE PLANES HAVE TRACKED THEM PERFORMING DANGEROUS MANEUVERS CLOSE TO RUSSIAN AND CHINESE SPACE STATIONS. During its last mission, it was detected not far from the Chinese space station, and from all this, we can conclude, that Americans are making some kind of satellite killer.  Another characteristic of MiG-41 apart from very advanced weaponry and invulnerability is to act covertly because it will have a certain low-visibility shape and to avoid detection missiles will probably be carried in internal compartments, and not mounted on the outside.  Besides all this, MiG-41 is intended to be super fast because Russia has thousands of kilometers border length and you need to reach the target fast and quickly to destroy it. In any case, MiG-41, as many experts claim, is going to fly at speeds of 4 machs that is 4.000+ km/h (2.500 mph). At this kind of speed, the question of piloting arises that is whether it's going to be controlled by a person or from the ground but unfortunately, Russia is a little behind in UAV's department and only Israel has the most advanced military robotics machinery in this department, which even Americans are copying. Russia is considerably behind but they are rapidly developing AI (artificial intelligence) for Mig-41, which will close the gap. Also, MiG-41 will be equipped if not with laser weapons, then something similar to it. Mig-41 can also fire 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missiles which can fly at Mach 8 and Mach 9 speed.

Star war: Space war with lasers

With the advent of Russian experimental Mig-41 and American X-Planes orF/A-XX fighter, the concept of Star Wars in science fiction is coming true. 

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