Mustard MiG-25 Foxbat: The Blazing Fast Jet That Fooled the World Posted: May 9, 2025 | Last updated: May 9, 2025 When the MiG-25 first appeared, it terrified the West. But when one pilot defected ...

But by 1970, the Blackbird had new competition atop aviation’s high-speed leaderboard, and in the skies over Soviet-controlled territory: The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25. The MiG-25 was developed ...

Except for the Soviet MiG-25 (NATO designation “Foxbat ... was going in for images of key communist targets throughout the Asian side of the Communist Bloc, MiG-25s from Vladivostok gave ...

The Soviet Mikoyan MiG-25 was one of the fastest aircraft ever developed. A Cold War interceptor, the Foxbat as it was called, could fly at speeds of Mach 3+ and was designed to quickly intercept ...