Key point: The USSR needed a fast interceptor for its vast country and also to function as a spy plane that would counter America’s SR-71. Moscow’s answer was the very fast MiG-25 which lasted for ...

There was a time when the Americans ruled the skies with almost science fiction-looking planes, such as the SR-71 Blackbird.

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 Soviet-developed MiG-25 "Foxbat" almost defies classification, as it can operate as an interceptor jet to counteract long range bomber planes or fighter jets and do double duty as a spy plane, ...

Forty years ago this month, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko stole the top secret MiG-25 and defected to Japan, allowing the West to examine his country's most advanced jet fighter. On Sept. 6, 1976, ...

The Soviet Union’s MiG-25 was a big, scary, high-speed fighter. That is, until Western governments got their hands on it, thanks to Soviet Flight Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Belenko. This post is ...

In 1986, during the Iran-Iraq War, Iranian F-5s faced one of Iraq’s most feared aircraft. The MiG-25 was built for extreme speed and altitude, making interception almost impossible. But conditions ...