Introduced in the late 1950s, it served as a. Foxhound) is a supersonic interceptor aircraft developed for the soviet air forces by the mikoyan. Webboth efforts had commenced in early 1944 after the soviet committee for state defense (gko) charged all fighter okbs with the responsibility of developing a jet. Webthese aircraft often pushed the limits of soviet engineering and performed more advanced operations than any jets that came before them and saw combat in.