During the Cold War in the 1970s and 1980s, Soviet MiG-25 Foxbats capable of speeds above Mach 3 became one of the biggest ...

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 ...

The MiG-25 Foxbat was a supersonic interceptor built by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. This aircraft was designed to protect Soviet airspace from high-altitude NATO reconnaissance aircraft and bombers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Throughout the early 1970s, the Soviet MiG-25 streaked through the nightmares of America’s military and intelligence communities. If the Cold War were to ever turn hot, they feared, this seemingly ...

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 ...

An SR-71 pilot recalls the moment a Soviet jet fired a missile, and how speed and countermeasures helped the Blackbird escape.