A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting ...

So, the MiG-25 was designed to address this need. Entering service in 1970, possessing a top speed of Mach 2.83, equipped with powerful radar, and carrying up to four air-to-air missiles, this ...

But no aircraft is invincible and the Blackbird was no exception.With Soviet interceptors like the MiG-25 recorded achieving speeds as high as Mach 3.2 in 1971, and Soviet surface-to-air missiles ...

The MiG-25 Foxbat would eventually make way for the MiG-31 Foxhound and proved that faster is not always better, especially in modern combat.

According to Belenko’s testimony, while possible, the ability for even the MiG-25 to shoot down the Blackbird, which was traveling at 3,600 feet-per-second, that’s faster than a speeding ...