After 20 years, the legendary Cold War plane that doubled as an interceptor and a spy plane is back on display. Here's what ...

During the Cold War, military secrets were at a premium, so when a Russian pilot decided to defect with his MiG 25, it was a ...

MiG-25 Key Points and Summary - The Soviet MiG-25 "Foxbat" was a feared and mysterious super-interceptor, a "paper tiger" whose myth was shattered by the 1976 defection of pilot Viktor Belenko.

There was a time when the Americans ruled the skies with almost science fiction-looking planes, such as the SR-71 Blackbird.

What You Need to Know: Viktor Belenko, a Soviet pilot, defected to the West in 1976 by flying his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan, shocking both the Soviet Union and the world. The MiG-25, one of the USSR’s ...

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 at ...

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 to ...