The MiG-25 Foxbat was a supersonic interceptor built by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. This aircraft was designed to protect ...

The Soviet Mikoyan MiG-25 was one of the fastest aircraft ever developed. A Cold War interceptor, the Foxbat as it was called, could fly at speeds of Mach 3+ and was designed to quickly intercept ...

On the 6th of September 1976, a fighter-pilot of the Soviet Union did the unthinkable. During a training mission near the ...

In the late 1960s, the USSR debuted what appeared to be the world’s deadliest fighter. The MiG-25 (NATO term “Foxbat”) could outrun any fighter in the air, and indeed any military aircraft other than ...

Key point: The USSR needed a fast interceptor for its vast country and also to function as a spy plane that would counter America’s SR-71. Moscow’s answer was the very fast MiG-25 which lasted for ...

Awesome video of the MiG-25 Foxbat flying at very high speed and ultra low altitude some years ago in Russia. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 is a Soviet-era supersonic interceptor equipped with a ...

Forty years ago this month, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko stole the top secret MiG-25 and defected to Japan, allowing the West to examine his country's most advanced jet fighter. On Sept. 6, 1976, ...

The Soviet Union’s MiG-25 was a big, scary, high-speed fighter. That is, until Western governments got their hands on it, thanks to Soviet Flight Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Belenko. This post is ...

As I write this now, two of the biggest constituent states of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ukraine and Russia, are preparing to go to war. But as these two former siblings stare each ...

Exactly 40 years ago yesterday, on September 6, 1976, one of the odder events of the Cold War took place. A Soviet twin-jet plane with a design no Western power had ever seen before suddenly landed at ...