{"id":192237,"date":"2009-04-25T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/25\/russian-draws-back-veil-from-mig-31bm\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T10:29:00","slug":"russian-draws-back-veil-from-mig-31bm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/25\/russian-draws-back-veil-from-mig-31bm\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Draws Back Veil from MiG-31BM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img13.imageshack.us\/img13\/6063\/aw041320091539l1105607.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img13.imageshack.us\/img13\/6063\/aw041320091539l1105607.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/img11.imageshack.us\/img11\/4938\/aw041320091522l1126875.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img11.imageshack.us\/img11\/4938\/aw041320091522l1126875.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a>Russia has finally displayed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-04-13&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/04\/13\/AW_04_13_2009_p36-132002.xml\">the latest version of the MiG 31 interceptor along with its weapons loadout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of interest is that this is the first showing of the R-33S (bottom pic, right hand side), which differs from the basic R-33 by having some small destabilizing surfaces up front (the ones with the ray and white bodies).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about 40 kg (88 lb) heavier than the basic R-33, which would imply some increase in range, and the destabilizing surfaces implies an increase in maneuverability, though it is still clearly not intended for highly maneuverable targets.<\/p>\n<p>You can click the pics for the full size photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has finally displayed the latest version of the MiG 31 interceptor along with its weapons loadout. Of interest is that this is the first showing of the R-33S (bottom pic, right hand side), which differs from the basic R-33 by having some small destabilizing surfaces up front (the ones with the ray and white &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1180,1033,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-missiles","category-russia","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}