Regarding the MiG-25 "Fox Bat" fighter, its short life has left many stories, and the first time I learned about this mysterious fighter was in the military magazine of the local stall, "The CIA skillfully used a serial plan, And Belenko flew a plane to raid Hokkaido", and I did not know how true the description of Belenko's motives for defecting to the free world in the above works was somewhat true.
It is said that after the MiG-25 landed, the Americans were very excited, and the organization experts unpacked the box with excitement and found that it was all typical rough hair, huge tubes, bad cockpits, and high-altitude high speeds exchanged for engine life. Just like netizens meet, only to find that distance produces beauty. In any case, we still have to admire the Russians, who have used these backward parts to integrate a fighter that can compete with the SR71 "Blackbird", successfully breaking through 3 times the speed of sound, and uploading it as a good story in the history of world aviation development.
In the information of the MiG-25, in addition to introducing the flight performance of the "high altitude high speed", most of them will also mention the "cyclone A" fire control radar carried by the MiG-25, the antenna aperture is more than 1 meter, the peak power is as high as 600 kilowatts, and various articles will say in unison that "the MiG-25 radar is forbidden to start on the ground, otherwise the powerful electromagnetic waves will roast the rabbits in the airport grass." "The above statement is widely circulated, everyone is convinced, and unfortunately this is a rumor.
The microwave oven in the kitchen heats the food, relying on the rotation of the microwave electric field with the oscillation of water molecules, the electric field rotates, and electromagnetic waves will form, and electromagnetic waves carry energy. Since the rotation frequency of the microwave electric field coincides with the intrinsic frequency of the water molecules, the rotation of the water molecules is always accelerated by the rotating electric field, thereby continuously obtaining energy, which is commonly referred to as "resonance". During the "resonance" process, the water molecules oscillate more and more violently, the energy is getting higher and higher, the water temperature rises, and the food is heated.
Officers and men specializing in radar of our army have made real tests, and in front of the most concentrated radar radiation energy, they hang rats, roast them under high pressure for half a day, and do not roast the rats. In fact, the "Cyclone A" radar is powerful because the Soviet Union's electronics industry level is backward, the basic electronic components of the radar are mainly huge vacuum tubes, most of the power is lost in the form of heat, and the real utilization rate is very low. The Soviet Air Force did not have stricter radiation safety regulations for operating the Whirlwind A radar on the ground than other fighters. If you really want to use the radar of the MiG-25 to kill rabbits hundreds of meters away, you must irradiate the target for a long time to make the rabbit body tissue produce obvious heat, and the rabbit will not stand stupidly in front of the radar, and the ground staff also understand this truth.
There is also a story that the MiG-25 needs to consume a lot of alcohol to fly, hence the nickname "Flying Tavern", and this legend has been proven to be true.
When flying at 3 times the speed of sound, the surface of the MiG-25 fuselage will be heated to more than 300 ° C under air friction, and the radar is also a big heat generator, in order to ensure the normal operation of the cockpit and equipment cabin avionics, the MiG Design Bureau has developed an air-vapor heat exchange system for the MiG-25. Inside the MiG-25 fuselage are two alcohol canisters, one for 40 liters of pure alcohol (98 percent) and the other for 250 liters of distilled water solution for alcohol (49 percent), which serve as coolant in supersonic flights to keep the avionics at the right temperature in a way that evaporates as coolant.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union imposed a prohibition on alcohol, and it was forbidden to make wine or drink alcohol nationwide. It's just that this kind of ban on brain-slapping is difficult to implement. The miG-25's alcohol purity and quality were just a substitute for liquor, so everyone from ground service to officers began stealing the miG-25's alcohol solution. Of course, this situation is not only in the Air Force, but also in the officers and men of the Navy who make their own distillers to brew private liquor.
It follows that during World War II, the U.S. Navy equipped with MK14 torpedoes used ethanol fuel, and the sailors responsible for maintaining the torpedoes soon discovered that the fuel for these torpedoes could be drunk. So the sailors mixed the alcohol they stole from the torpedoes with the juice provided by the warship and mixed it into a pineapple cocktail. There is a dye in the fuel, then use bread to filter, there is croton oil, but the boiling point of croton oil is higher than ethanol, which can be filtered by distillation, and the method that can be used anyway is used, which gives birth to the famous "torpedo juice". All of this is understandable, a group of men crammed into a small space is too much for pastime.
Later, the U.S. military used electric torpedoes, the sailors had no way to steal alcohol, and the MiG-25 was replaced with undrinkable coolant, which disappointed many people.