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

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 ...

The MiG-25 has presented as much an enigmatic image as the Blackbird, at times being reported as invincible, and at other times being dismissed as practically prehistoric in it’s approach to high ...

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

Soviet pilot Victor Belenko defected with his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan in September 1976, riding out of the Iron Curtain and into our hearts. His stolen jet became a treasure trove for Western ...

American authorities (including President Bush) have asserted that the EP-3 spy plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in China is the "sovereign territory" of the United States and may ...

The American B-52 bomber and A-10 attack plane tend to be the most used examples of warplanes that defy aging, with careers lasting five or six decades. Keep in mind, though, the Warthog and the ...