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 Tumansky R-15s and a mostly ...

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 ...

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

The Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat was one of the most famous fighters of the Cold War. A big, powerful, twin-engine interceptor that could fly faster than Mach 3 and 70,000 feet, the Foxbat set several speed ...

When talking about high-flying aircraft, most people think of American jets like the F-22 or F-35. But one of the highest-flying jets ever was not American it was built by the Soviet Union during the ...

Details remain limited at this time, but a Russian MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor crashed in the country’s northern Murmansk region earlier today after suffering an engine fire. The two crewmen were ...

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 ...