How high can a fighter fly in the sky

MIG-25 Creation:

The initial prototype of the MIG-25: the YE166M has set six world records and has never been broken!

The six are: May 17, 1975:

Climb from sea level to 25,000 meters: 2 minutes and seconds!

Climb from sea level to 30,000 meters: 3 minutes and seconds!

Climb from sea level to 35,000 meters: 4 minutes and seconds!

July 22, 1977:

Fly with 2,000 kg payload: 37,090 meters!

Fly with 1,000 kg payload: 37,090 meters!

August 31, 1977:

Fly without load: 37,650 meters! This is an absolute world record!

24,500 meters, the current highest record. Unbelief??? It's been a few years now?? It's 2006!! 24,400 meters are overdue!!

It's hard to check the specific data, and it's not much worse anyway. It seems to be... Sweat! How did I forget it all at once. It seems to be a MiG-25 high-altitude high-speed interceptor. I remember the altitude of 25,000 and 2,800 and below, and the speed was in Mach.

I can't remember! At that time, it was mainly to deal with American high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft! Therefore, the pursuit of high speed is very large, because it has certain problems in other aspects of technology and design thinking at that time. For example, fuel consumption. Size.

Now some fighters such as F35, Su-30MK, Rafale. And some fighters that are being developed, designed, and demonstrated, are basically developing towards a general-purpose type, and will not pay too much attention to a certain performance!

It should be a little higher than the stratosphere height.

The approximate flight altitude range of modern fighters (i.e. fighters) is 9000-20000m.

Due to the use and material of the general fighter plane, the general ceiling is 20,000 meters, and some special-purpose aircraft can fly to more than 30,000 meters.

Due to the use and materials of the general fighter plane, the general excavation altitude limit is 20,000 meters, some special-purpose aircraft, such as the United States Blackbird high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and the former Soviet Union's MiG-25 interceptor can fly to more than 30,000 meters, such aircraft have special requirements for material engines, pilots also wear anti-compression suits to fly fighters.

At present, the practical ceiling of mainstream fighter jets is about 20,000 meters.

F-16 15000-16000 (maximum ceiling), F-15 18000 (maximum ceiling).

F-22 18288 (maximum ceiling).

The F-104 30000 (maximum ceiling) has a practical ceiling of only 17500 SU-27 18500 (maximum ceiling).

The MiG-25 is generally recorded at 28,000 (maximum ceiling), but the maximum load without negative plexus is 37,650

The above are fighters and then a reconnaissance aircraft and bombers.

The B-52 has a ceiling of 16,800 and can fly up to the stratosphere, so it's called the Stratofortress.

SR-71 26000-30000 (maximum ceiling permeation this) U-2 22000-27000 (maximum ceiling).