Key point: The Foxbat was a very good plane, but it looked scarier than its actual capabilities were. Yet, Moscow was able to export this fast interceptor all over the world. The MiG-25 (NATO ...

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

Here’s What You Need to Remember: However, the true inheritor of the Foxbat are the MiG-31 Foxhound, which continues, in Russian service, to perform its original patrol and interception missions, and ...

Discover the story behind the F-15 Eagle - the legendary fighter jet that redefined air superiority and shaped modern aerial ...

On a secret mission in 1997 a MiG-25 entered Pakistani airspace subsonically at around 65,000 ft and photographed strategic installations near Islamabad. It then turned back towards India with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exactly 40 years ago yesterday, on September 6, 1976, one of the odder events of the Cold War took place. A Soviet twin-jet plane with a design no Western power had ever seen before suddenly landed at ...

When talking about high-flying aircraft, most people think of American jets like the F-22 or F-35. But one of the highest-flying jets ever was not American it was built by the Soviet Union during the ...

I thought about writing about a lot of different subjects this week. I knew that I wanted to discuss Champions Online, but I couldn't decide on a topic until I played a lowbie character and ...