What You Need to Know: The Soviet MiG-25 "Foxbat" was a high-speed interceptor designed to counter U.S. spy planes like the U-2 and SR-71. With stainless steel construction and Tumansky R-15B-300 ...

When the MiG-25 “Foxbat” first appeared in the skies, it sent shockwaves through NATO. Capable of flying over Mach 2.8 and ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: However, the true inheritor of the Foxbat are the MiG-31 Foxhound, which continues, in Russian service, to perform its original patrol and interception missions, and ...

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 MiG-25, which first took to the skies 50 years ago, has long been a trendsetter in aviation. Here’s what you need to know about this fighter-interceptor, which has served in the air forces of more ...

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 ...

Think you know all there is to know about the MiG-25? Check out these facts. The MiG-25, which first took to the skies 50 years ago has long been a trendsetter in aviation. Here’s what you need to ...