Meet the MiG-25 . The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, known by NATO as Foxbat, was the last aircraft designed by Mikhail Gurevich before his retirement, and it was developed as a supersonic interceptor ...

The MiG-25's purpose was to take aim at U.S. supersonic bombers and high-flying spy planes like the SR-71. In the midst of the Cold War era, this type of aircraft presented the U.S. with a pretty ...

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, known by its NATO reporting name “Foxbat,” is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Cold War era. Designed by the Soviet Union’s Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau, the ...

The Event . When American intelligence specialists got their hands on Belenko’s MiG-25, they were astonished by the level of ...

The story of Viktor Belenko, a MiG-25 pilot who defected to the United States via Japan on Sept. 6, 1976. The then Lieutenant Belenko was a pilot with the ...

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 MiG-25 offered a potent radar system of its time, but the MiG-31 far outpaces it. In fact, the MiG-31 was the first of its kind with an electrically scanned N007 Zaslon phased array radar.

The plane that he has flown 400-odd miles, and which now sits stranded at the end of a provincial Japanese runway, is the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25. It is the most secretive aircraft the Soviet ...

The plane, which the North Atlantic Treaty Organization called the MiG-25 “Foxbat,” had something else: wide wings, suggesting that it was also highly maneuverable.