Starting its service in 1970, what made the MiG-25 Foxbat jet so terrifying was that it shattered records. This Russian interceptor could achieve a top speed of Mach 2.8 and broke 29 records ...

The MiG-25 (NATO reporting name: Foxbat) was one of the most awesome, yet most misunderstood, fighters of the Cold War.Envisioned as an interceptor designed to destroy U.S. supersonic bombers and ...

From that observation, speculation quickly grew that the Foxbat was more than just fast; it was remarkably maneuverable too. Getty Images A MiG-25 flying in 1987. The fact that the Foxbat bore an ...

The MiG-25 (NATO reporting name: Foxbat) was one of the most awesome, yet most misunderstood, fighters of the Cold War.Envisioned as an interceptor designed to destroy U.S. supersonic bombers and ...

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 ...

When he brought his MiG-25 “Foxbat” to Hakodate he gave the Western intelligence officers the opportunity to give a first close look at one of the most secretive airplanes of those years ...

Since it first appeared in grainy black and white spy photos in the late 1960’s and early ‘70’s the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (NATO reporting name “Foxbat”) has been an enigma. The big ...

Before the Pakistanis could figure out what had hit them or scramble their fighter aircraft, the intruding MiG-25 – codenamed Foxbat by NATO – was back in Indian airspace. Details of the ...

The word Foxbat was enough to make some Western pilots abort their mission. Fighting against Valkyrie Work on the MiG-25 began in the early 1960s in the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich design ...