The MiG-25 Foxbat was the USSR’s answer to fast intruders: climb hard, sprint high, and intercept before they reached Soviet ...
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 ...
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 most infamous Soviet-era fighters are arguably the Sukhoi Su-27 and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 and MiG-25. Russia’s stockpile of Soviet-designed weaponry and military systems continues to make ...
In 1982, Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood produced, directed and starred in the film adaptation of the Craig Thomas novel Firefox, which told the story of an effort to steal the advanced Soviet MiG-31 ...
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 ...