(Image: Ukraine State Aviation Museum in Kiev is stocked with old Soviet-era military aircraft. But this old MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor doesn’t appear to be one of the main exhibits.
(Images: The redundant airframe is little more than a stripped-out fuselage on wheels, and even then it’s barely a skeleton of its once mighty self.
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Despite making for an interesting cross-section cutaway, the gutted MiG-25 seems to have provided spares for the museum’s other Foxbat before being towed to an isolated corner of the site.
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But aside from its gaunt condition, the aircraft doesn’t appear to be in a poor state. Hopefully it’ll one day be rebuilt, like this buried MiG-25 dragged from the sands of Iraq.
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