Published video of the battle of Russian MiG-31 in the stratosphere

As it became known, in Kamchatka, air combat exercises of MiG-31 fighters in the stratosphere were successfully conducted.That

How it happened, they filmed - it was this video that was published on the Internet.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the pilotsaircraft were able to intercept the conditional airspace violator, while being at an altitude of about 20 thousand meters. Also, the country's military department noted that to complicate the task, it was decided to provide the finding of the intruder to the military aircraft themselves, without any assistance from ground-based air defense systems.

Recall that the supersonic high-altitudeThe MiG-31 fighter-interceptor was created to intercept and destroy air targets at various altitudes: from extremely low to the highest. At the same time, the aircraft is capable of performing the assigned tasks both in simple and difficult weather conditions, as well as when the enemy uses active and passive radar jamming. The development of the fighter was carried out in the mid-1970s.