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Russian MiG-25 Foxbat fired a missile at an SR-71 Blackbird — the missile may have locked back onto the MiG-25 that fired it

A Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat fired a Soviet AA-6 air-to-air missile at an SR-71 Blackbird flown by U.S. Air Force Colonel David ...
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US intelligence thought Russia’s MiG-25 Foxbat was made of titanium — it was actually cheap stainless steel

The MiG-25 Foxbat was a supersonic interceptor built by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. This aircraft was designed to protect ...

Russia wants a fighter jet so fast that no pilot may be able to fly it, and that turns the cockpit into the strangest problem

A proposed Russian interceptor often called the MiG-41 is back in the conversation because some commentators argue it may ...

A warplane that may be too fast for its own pilot is forcing Russia to rethink what should sit inside the cockpit

The aircraft may be designed to fly so fast, and so high, that keeping a human pilot in the cockpit could become a technical ...