Key Points and Summary - The MiG-25 Foxbat was the USSR’s answer to fast intruders: climb hard, sprint high, and intercept before they reached Soviet airspace. -First flown in 1964, it used two ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Today, only the Algerian Air Force operates the MiG-25 in any numbers. The MiG-25 (NATO reporting name: Foxbat) was one of the most awesome, yet most misunderstood, ...

From a carrier-launched Super Hornet to an F-22 that supercruises without afterburners, these five jets redefine what ...

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 ...

The MiG-25 was designed as a high-speed interceptor against American nuclear bombers. "Icons of Aviation History" is a diary series that explores significant and historic aircraft. MiG-25 undergoing ...

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 ...

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 ...

OTD in 1976, Viktor Belenko, “stole” a MiG-25 and landed in Japan. The then Lieutenant Belenko was a pilot with the 513th Fighter Regiment, 11th Air Army, based in Chuguyevka, Primorsky Krai, in the ...

In 1970 when the Soviet Union put the MiG-25 into service, it was in response to the Americans’ reconnaissance jets U-2 and SR-71. These two planes were capable of speeds and altitudes that exceeded ...