On the 6th of September 1976, a fighter-pilot of the Soviet Union did the unthinkable. During a training mission near the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: However, the true inheritor of the Foxbat are the MiG-31 Foxhound, which continues, in Russian service, to perform its original patrol and interception missions, and ...

Summary: In the late 1960s, the USSR unveiled the MiG-25 “Foxbat,” a fighter that seemed poised to dominate the skies with its exceptional speed and altitude capabilities. Designed to counter ...

Martin Bormann was one of the highest-ranking members of Nazi Germany. He disappeared during the final days of the Second ...

When talking about high-flying aircraft, most people think of American jets like the F-22 or F-35. But one of the highest-flying jets ever was not American it was built by the Soviet Union during the ...

The history of military aviation is, in a few ways, a story of pushing speed to its limits.

Awesome video of the MiG-25 Foxbat flying at very high speed and ultra low altitude some years ago in Russia. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 is a Soviet-era supersonic interceptor equipped with a ...

Exactly 40 years ago yesterday, on September 6, 1976, one of the odder events of the Cold War took place. A Soviet twin-jet plane with a design no Western power had ever seen before suddenly landed at ...

The MiG-25 Foxbat was an incredible rat rod of a plane—heavy, big and extraordinarily powerful—and it indirectly led to the development of Western planes like the F-15 Eagle. In the 1970s, the United ...

If I say: “Jim, eject, eject, eject” – this is not command for discussion, only for fulfillment.” In broken English, Russian pilot Alexander Garnaev was prepping me on emergency evacuation procedures ...