Cold War Interceptor Prints Wall Art

Cold War Interceptor Prints — 3 museum-grade prints on the theme. The Mikoyan MiG-31 entered Soviet Air Forces service in 1981 as a two-seat, twin-engine long-range interceptor designed to patrol vast northern airspace against B-1, B-52, and cruise-missile threats the MiG-25 could not engage effectively at low altitude. Powered by two Solovyev D-30F6 afterburning turbofans, the Foxhound carries a maximum operational speed of Mach 2. Dassault Aviation developed the Mirage F1 in the late 1960s as a swept-wing successor to the delta Mirage III, entering Armée de l'Air service in 1973 with the Mirage F1C all-weather interceptor equipped with Thomson-CSF Cyrano IV radar and Matra Super 530 air-to-air missiles. Reims-Champagne Air Base (BA 112 Marin la Meslée) became the first operational Mirage F1 station in France and remained central to Savoie squadron history for decades. The Dassault Mirage 2000C entered French Air Force service in 1984 as a dedicated air-defence interceptor, pairing a pure delta wing with SNECMA M53 power and the RDI pulse-Doppler radar for beyond-visual-range engagements with Matra Super 530D and Magic missiles. Escadron de Chasse 2/5 Île-de-France, stationed at Orange-Caritat in Provence, traces its roots to Free French Squadron 340 formed in Scotland in 1941 and became the final frontline unit operating the Mirage 2000C RDI before disbandment in June 2022.

Updated 14 Jun 2026