PRINCE SULTAN AIR BASE, Saudi Arabia — U.S. warplanes came within two minutes of firing at an Iraqi MIG-25 fighter jet after it sneaked into Saudi airspace last week, U.S. Air Force pilots said ...

Iraq on the other hand operated various Soviet aircraft including MiG-25. The type's high speed made it useful for tasks such as high-altitude bombing. MiG-25s were also used in an attempt to ...

Key point: As far as is known, this was the last ever clash between F-14 Tomcats and MiG-25 Foxbats. The Iraqi air force received its first Foxbats – 12 MiG-25P interceptors, 12 MiG-25R ...

Without success. The MiG-25 was hopelessly outclassed by the F-14A in a dogfight. The Iraqi air force received its first Foxbats – 12 MiG-25P interceptors, 12 MiG-25R reconnaissance aircraft and ...

One would down an F/A-18 from an Iraqi MiG-25 in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, with a second one causing damage to a USAF F-15 jet later that same year. The Foxbat's radar system was also severely ...

In the 1991 Gulf War the MiG-25 performed better, at least in Iraqi Air Force service. On the very first night of the air war over Iraq a pair of F/A-18Cs from VFA-81, the “Sunliners”, flying ...

As for how Speicher was shot down, authors Douglas C. Dildy and Tom Cooper interviewed Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat pilot Lt. Zuhair Dawoud for their book, "F-15C Eagle vs MiG-23/25: Iraq 1991." ...

Then on Dec. 23, 2002, an Iraqi MiG-25 intercepted one of the Predators and, for the first time, the two planes exchanged fire. Video of the brief battle, shot by the Predator, was obtained by CBS ...

They took it up and the Predator didn't run away," he said. The Predator and an Iraqi MiG 25 fired air-to-air missiles at each other. Lilly said the Stinger missed when its heat-seeker got ...

Forty years ago this month, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko stole the top secret MiG-25 and defected to Japan, allowing the West to examine his country's most advanced jet fighter. On Sept. 6, 1976 ...