What You Need to Know: The Soviet MiG-25 “Foxbat” was a high-speed interceptor designed to counter U.S. spy planes like the U-2 and SR-71. With stainless steel construction and Tumansky R-15B ...

By Mohit Charan. Forty years ago, on August 25, 1981, Indian Air Force’s, then latest acquisition, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, rechristened as Garuda, flew its first sortie.

The MiG-UTS two-seat trainer will be powered by a single Ivchenko-Progress AI-222-25 turbofan engine. Credit: United Aircraft Corp. concept After struggling for three decades to begin a new basic ...

AMBALA: After his 25-minute sortie in MiG-21 on Friday, Defence Minister George Fernandes said the trainer jet, dubbed as the "flying coffin", would remain the mainstay of the Air Force.

Russia's Mikoyan (MiG) design bureau is developing a new affordable jet trainer aircraft to be used by the country's aviation forces, the Rostec conglomerate announced on 28 December.