Firefox is a 1982 Warner Brothers film with Clint Eastwood as director, producer, and lead role. It was based on a novel by Craig Thomas. 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Warner Bros. ... Clint Eastwood in the 1960s Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Firefox is a fiction novel written by Craig Thomas, published in 1978. ... Craig David Thomas (born 1942) is a Welsh author of thrillers, notably the Mitchell Gant series. ...

The film details an American plot to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter aircraft (MiG-31 "Firefox") capable of Mach 6, invisible to radar, and controlled by thought. Eastwood stars as Maj. Mitchell Gant, a Vietnam veteran who infiltrates the Soviet Union, aided by his ability to speak Russian and a network of dissidents and sympathizers. Gant makes his way to the fictional Bilyarsk air base, where two prototypes of the Firefox have been built. His goal is to fly one back to the United States for analysis. But the KGB is already hot on his tail. Mach number (Ma) is defined as a ratio of speed to the speed of sound in the medium in case. ... This long range radar antenna (approximately 40m (130ft) in diameter) rotates on a track to observe activities near the horizon. ... The Committee for State Security, or KGB, (Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti  listen?), was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. ...

At the time the film was made, President Ronald Reagan had referred to the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and the Cold War was at a new peak. Naturally, Russian filming locations were not possible, and the producers selected Vienna and other locations in Austria to simulate many of the Eurasian story locations. The film was shot on a $21 million budget. Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... The term evil empire was applied to the former Soviet Union (USSR) by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, American conservatives, and Cold War hawks during the 1980s. ... The Cold War was the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ...

In 1983, the film was converted into a laserdisc game by Atari, and is the only such game made by the company. For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ...

External link

• Firefox at the Internet Movie Database

 The MIG-31 FireFox itself is an aircraft with advancements yet to be seen together in any modern aircraft. The FireFox is capable of sustaining speeds of Mach-6 due via two gargantuan engines, both of which providing over 50,000lbs of thrust per. The FireFox is stealth in that it is invisible to radar, however the massive engines can still be tracked by infrared guidance systems. FireFox's most dangerous technology, is its thought controlled weapon system. According to the novel by Craig Thomas it is adapted from technology originally invented to allow handicapped persons to operate a whell chair hands free. This system adapted to FireFox allows the pilot to use his thought impulses to track and attack targets. Thus giving him a considerable speed advantage in combat. However this system was devloped by russians, and designed to understand the russian language. Thus requiring to pilot to think in russian to make use of this feature. FireFox was armed with twin 30 millimeter cannons under the cockpit. As well as an array of air to air missiles. For defense, twin pods in the wings fired explosives backward to knock out pursuing missiles. Or in the case of Mitchel Gant, the second FireFox. All of these weapons could be controlled by thought impulse. The original Mig-31 showcased on the Craig Thomas novel resembled a modified Mig-25 "Foxbat". However a new model was created for the movie itself. This model has a slight resemblence to the abortive delta-winged XB-70 Supersonic bomber of the United States Air Force. Hinting that there may have been some shared inspiration from the design of one to the other. Interestingly, none of these changes seemed to offend Craig Thomas. As his sequel "FireFox Down" written later is dedicated to Clint Eastwood the "Pilot of the FireFox" This novel showcases an aircraft which is nearly identical to the movie version on its cover. The Mig-31 was designed largely by desident Jews, who later helped Mitchell Gant steal the plane. Thus allowing them to deal a devestating blow to the Soviet Union. The death of these scientists, and the loss of the second FireFox left the soviets with no fruits for their labor. 

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