Foxbat Frontier (Unisex T-Shirt)

Foxbat Frontier puts the MiG-25 where it belongs: dead centre, nose up, against a fractured Soviet star. The top-down silhouette shows off the twin fins, the huge rectangular intakes and the slab wings that gave the Foxbat its unmistakable profile, framed by the Mikoyan name and its Mach 2.8+ calling card in a retro poster layout.

Choose between two artworks under the Design option. Red Star runs the aircraft in cool grey with a red outline over a red and blue star. Desert Camo repaints the same layout in sand and brown camouflage with warm tan framing, a nod to the Foxbats flown over the Middle East by Iraq, Syria, Libya and Algeria.

Built almost entirely from nickel steel because aluminium could not take the heat, the MiG-25 was designed to run down high-altitude bombers and reconnaissance jets at speeds no Western fighter could match. When Viktor Belenko flew one to Japan in 1976, the West finally saw the aircraft up close: crude in places, brutally effective in its one job, and still the fastest interceptor ever to enter service. A tee for anyone who admires the blunt-force engineering of the Cold War.

NOTE: The exact placement of the design may vary from the images due to scaling for different t-shirt sizes and variations in the printing process.

Aircraft Quick Facts

• Manufacturer: Mikoyan-Gurevich (Soviet Union)
• Role: High-speed interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft
• First flight: 6 March 1964; entered service 1970
• Top speed: Mach 2.83 operationally, with Mach 3.2 possible at the cost of the engines
• Powerplant: Two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning turbojets
• Airframe: Around 80 percent nickel steel alloy, with titanium in the hottest areas
• Record: Absolute altitude record of 37,650 m set by Aleksandr Fedotov in 1977, still unbroken
• Production: 1,186 built between 1964 and 1984

Features

• 100% ring-spun cotton, lightweight at 153 g/m² (4.5 oz), pre-shrunk jersey knit
• Modern classic fit
• Seamless double-needle collar with taped neck and shoulders
• Double-needle sleeves and hem; tubular body, quarter-turned to avoid a centre crease
• High stitch density for a smooth, sharp print surface

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