Rank 69 in the Aviation Heroes collection, this print treats the MiG-31 Foxhound as the Mach 2.83 Arctic sentinel the 98th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment flies from Monchegorsk — not as a generic twin-tail silhouette on white. Mikoyan developed the Foxhound to replace the MiG-25 Foxbat with efficient low-bypass D-30F6 turbofans, Zaslon look-down/shoot-down radar, and a two-seat weapons-system layout built for engaging bombers and cruise missiles across Russia's northern airspace. The MiG-31BM upgrade refreshed avionics and brought R-37M extreme-range missiles into the loadout collectors track on open-source imagery. Here the interceptor sits in clean technical profile: 25 on the nose and tails, red stars on the wings, long-range missiles under the fuselage and pylons, and that unmistakable wedge-intake planform spotters recognise before the polar-bear patch loads.