Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy The Navy’s Powerful F-4B Phantom II Fighter The F-4B Phantom II measured 63 feet long with a ...

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 ...

Why not,” Viktor Belenko quipped years later, recalling the day he rolled the dice on a Cold War escape that would upend decades of Western military anxiety. On September 6, 1976, the 29-year-old ...

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 MiG he flew to Kimpo was later flight tested by USAF test pilots, including Chuck Yeager before going on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

The MiG-25 turned out not to be as powerful as the West feared, though Belenko also shared important information about the morale among Soviet soldiers that resembles some of the reporting about ...

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.

On January 19, Roger Smith aced the ‘Time to 20,000 m (65,617 ft)’ flight, seeing the MiG-25’s 169.80 seconds and raising the Eagle’s 122.94-second performance.

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 ...