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On January 5, 1999, two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats from USS Carl Vinson fired AIM-54 Phoenix missiles at Iraqi MiG-25s over Operation Southern Watch....
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On January 5, 1999, two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats from USS Carl Vinson fired AIM-54 Phoenix missiles at Iraqi MiG-25s over Operation Southern Watch....
The SR-71 Blackbird is known for Mach 3 speeds and going to 80,000 feet. And yet, there is one Blackbird that holds an amazing...
No Soviet aircraft frightened Western planners like the MiG-25 Foxbat. On paper it was capable of Mach 3.2, powered by two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning...
The record for the highest absolute altitude still belongs to Fedotov and the MiG-25 Foxbat from the USSR.
The wounded SR-71 descended to about 25,000 feet, and at that altitude and reduced speed, it was no longer an unreachable object at the...
Lieutenant Viktor Belenko said later he did not steal the jet. He had clearances. He changed his flight plan. What the West found inside...
Every pilot's account begins with the push — a jet that could out-climb its own weight, straight up. As the last F-15Cs head for...
On September 6, 1976, a disillusioned Soviet lieutenant landed his MiG-25 at a civilian airport in Japan and handed the West its first look...
Christian D. Orr, a Senior Defense Editor and former Air Force Security Forces officer, provides a retrospective on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 "Foxbat". Once the...
Summary and Key Points: Christian D. Orr, a senior defense editor and former Air Force officer, recounts the definitive intelligence coup of the Cold...