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Just when people told me it wasn't a photography but a digital masterpiece I noticed how epic your gallery is! Keep up the awesome work!
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Good,excellent!
By the way...To say honest: I don't know the different of MiG-25"Foxbat" and MiG-31"Foxhound".
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Well, they share only the same layout. There are not much similar in details. The main difference to notice is that MiG-31 is bigger and heavier, it's a two seater, and has two wheels on each landing gear (MiG-25 has one on each main gear). MiG-31 basically is armed with 4 long range R-33/R-37 missiles under the fuselage and 2 R-40 missiles under the wings, while MiG-25 has only 4 R-40 under the wings. Also MiG-31 has a 23mm six-barrel gun, while MiG-25 has no gun at all. But the main difference is inside. MiG-31 has really a cutting edge equipment for early 1980th. It has powerful phased array radar (it was the frst fighter equiped with phased array and remain the only one till french Rafale entered the service in 2000). And the engines are also different. 
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most of the differences are hard to notice, but the basic Foxbat was a single seat fighter, while the Foxhound was a two-seat fighter. Also, the Foxhound had an internal gun while the Foxbat didn't. Also, the Foxhound has a Pulse-Doplar radar, while the Faxbat had (I think) a narrow-band search radar, meaning the 'window' the Mig25 could look through was fairly small, but far seeing.... the Mig31s pulse-doplar radar however could see very far, and very wide, and was less likely to be 'spoofed' by false radar signatures.
Interesting tidbit, the tech for the radar was only made available to the Soviets when Iran traded them an F-14 Tomcat in exchange for engine and missile tech to make their other F-14s (which were sabatoged by Grumman engineers on their way out) flyable again.
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I dont think that iranian F-14 has something to do with MiG-31 radar. No russian or soviet sources can confirm it. Besides, Iran received it's F-14 in 1976-1978 when the main works over Foxhound were completed. Obtaining aircraft seems unlikely just because of bad relations between the USSR and Iran that time. The radar is called Zaslon and it was the first airborn radar equiped with phased array. Foxhound remained the only mass produced fighter equiped with Phased array radar from 1980 to 2000 when Rafale entered the service.
Zaslon allows Foxhound to detect air targets at very long distances (up to 200 km) and simultaneously fire multiple targets. It was something remarkable for that time. 
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Ohwaa,thanks for your answer!
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