a Second Miss Space

Frustrated by the hopeless technology gap present, the Soviet government turned to examining the 2nd-Gen technology of the USA by secretly buying and accumulating the wreckage of F-15 Eagles from various frontline countries, and just like how the MiG-21 was created from the F-4, the MiG-25 was constructed as a Soviet redesign of how they thought the F-15 operated. In practice, it became a high-speed Hive infiltration TSF used in high cost nuclear strikes with minimal affect on the frontline.