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 ...

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 MiG-25 ...

Summary and 4 Points You Need to Know: The MiG-25 "Foxbat," developed by the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in response to U.S. U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance planes, became one of ...

Two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning turbojets, specifically designed for high-altitude performance, were chosen to power the MiG-25. Mikoyan-Gurevich equipped the MiG-25 with radar systems that ...

When the USSR debuted the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 “Foxbat” in the 1960s, U.S. officials were extremely wary of the fighter’s alleged prowess. The Foxbat, like all of the airframes produced ...

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 ...

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 ...

But it had a huge engine. Two of them. Work on the MiG-25 began in the early 1960s in the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau. Faced with the daunting prospect of American B-70 Valkyrie ...

Forty years ago, on August 25, 1981, Indian Air Force’s, then latest acquisition, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, rechristened as Garuda, flew its first sortie. The pilots in this flight were the ...