The MiG-31 has been heavily used in the current Ukraine War. Not as a fighter, but as an attack aircraft. Each MiG-31 aircraft can carry a 4.3 ton Kinzhal high-speed ballistic missile. Russia ...

The famous Soviet MiG-25 'Foxbat' first appeared in the Middle East already in 1971. It first flew reconnaissance missions over Israel and Sinai but in early 1980s, it saw combat over Lebanon in ...

The Mig-25 Foxbat was designed to directly counter American aerial might. When it comes to Russia’s military capabilities, the Kremlin has a long history of pushing the truth. In fact, stemming ...

The development of the MiG-15 began with the first jet built by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau, the MiG-9 (NATO reporting name: Fargo). The MiG-9 was powered by a pair of reverse-engineered ...

After defecting to the West in an MiG-25 and revealing Soviet Union secrets, Viktor Belenko lived in hiding on a ranch in Montana.

The MiG-25 Foxbat would eventually make way for the MiG-31 Foxhound and proved that faster is not always better, especially in modern combat.

The F-15 outpaced the MiG-25 by over half a minute, scoring 207.80 seconds, compared to the MiG’s 243.86 seconds. Maj.

The MiG-25 then made its way to U.S. hands, where the plane was meticulously disassembled and reverse-engineered. Belenko had even brought the plane's training manual, giving all the information ...

An Mikoyan MiG-25 twin-jet weather fighter of the type Lieutenant Belenko flew to defect to Japan. Fairfax He kept his doubts to himself – so much so that in the early 1970s he received the ...

Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko, who hijacked a MiG-25 military jet to Japan in September 1976, has died in the United States at the age of 76.