The MiG-25 wasn't just any jet. Alongside the American SR-71 Blackbird, it was one of only two jet aircraft to fly ...

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 ...

For nearly 25 years, the Indian Air Force operated one of the world's fastest and most secretive reconnaissance aircraft in ...

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When the U.S. government got its hands on spy shots of an early prototype of the Russian MiG-25 Foxbat, there was a bit of a panic. The U.S. assumed this massive fighter aircraft they were looking at ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a time when the Americans ruled the skies with almost science fiction-looking planes, such as the SR-71 Blackbird.

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, ...

OTD in 1976, Viktor Belenko, “stole” a MiG-25 and landed in Japan. The then Lieutenant Belenko was a pilot with the 513th Fighter Regiment, 11th Air Army, based in Chuguyevka, Primorsky Krai, in the ...

In 1970 when the Soviet Union put the MiG-25 into service, it was in response to the Americans’ reconnaissance jets U-2 and SR-71. These two planes were capable of speeds and altitudes that exceeded ...

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 ...