The MiG-25 Foxbat was the USSR’s answer to fast intruders: climb hard, sprint high, and intercept before they reached Soviet ...

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 ...

During the Cold War, two Soviet pilots handed the West priceless insights by flying their jets to freedom. In 1976, Viktor ...

What You Need to Know: Viktor Belenko, a Soviet pilot, defected to the West in 1976 by flying his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan, shocking both the Soviet Union and the world. The MiG-25, one of the USSR’s ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Envisioned as an interceptor designed to destroy U.S. supersonic bombers and high-flying spy planes, the Foxbat also put its high speed to good use as a ...