When the MiG-25 was returned to the USSR it was determined that the Americans had run the engines and measured the aircraft’s infra-red signature and also made a detailed analysis of the systems ...

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 ...

Thus the need emerged for an aircraft which could carry out this mission immune to the advanced air defence capabilities of our neighbours. And this led to the acquisition of the legendary MiG-25 ...

The Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat was many things. An interceptor, reconnaissance aircraft and a fast, high-altitude, record-setting bogeyman that scared the pants off Western air forces in the 1970s.

Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh with all officers of the First Supersonics fighter squadron who had commanded it since its raising in March 1963 If the plan works and they put a MiG-21 on display ...

Before the Pakistanis could figure out what had hit them or scramble their fighter aircraft, the intruding MiG-25 – codenamed Foxbat by NATO – was back in Indian airspace. Details of the ...

When Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to Japan with his MiG-25 jet, he spilled the plane’s secrets to the West, but the defection also led to the aircraft’s success in international markets.

When pilot Viktor Belenko defected 40 years ago, he did so in a mysterious Soviet plane – the MiG-25. BBC Future investigates the far-reaching effects of one of the Cold War’s most intriguing ...