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No, the MIG-25 Foxbat interceptor was designed for a single purpose and was built, at ruinous expense, to counter a non-existent threat.
The XB-70 Valkyrie supersonic bomber, built by the United States, was going to be a super-fast, super-high-altitude intercontinental bomber. When it was designed, the Soviet Union had nothing that would have been able to catch it or shoot it down. The MIG-25 Foxbat was a supersonic, high-altitude interceptor designed specifically to shoot down the B-70 Valkyrie.
But the US only built two XB-70's; one crashed when a chase fighter midaired it, and the other is in the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. (If you're ever in western Ohio, you MUST go to the Air Force Museum.) The MIG-25 was expensive to build and VERY expensive to operate; the stainless steel engines needed to be replaced or rebuild every 250 flight hours. And they didn't have much range or on-station time.
In 976, Soviet fighter pilot Victor Belenko, defected from the Soviet Union and flew his Foxbat to Japan, which was at about the maximum range.
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