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The MiG-25 Foxbat: Russia’s Supersonic Answer to SR-71 Spy Planes

Here’s What You Need To Remember: For nearly 25 years starting in the late 1960s, Foxbats sortied from Soviet bases any time an SR-71 rocketed along Soviet borders. But the longest-serving MiG-25s ...
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Making the MiG-25 a Mach 2 Passenger Aircraft

Here’s What You Need to Know: 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 ...