Both the MiG-25 and MiG-31 are Cold War-era tools designed to be lightning-fast interceptors with the MiG-25 also capable of reconnaissance. The USSR wanted to keep its secrets and couldn't afford ...

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 ...

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 ...