The defection of Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko in 1976 revealed critical insights into the capabilities of the feared MiG-25 ...

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 ...

In 1976, Belenko defected and flew to Hokkaido, Japan, in a MiG-25, a new, powerful Soviet aircraft that was feared by the West. Belenko had been serving in the Soviet Union's Air Defense Forces ...

As the Cold War intensified, the MiG-23 and MiG-25 were introduced. Developed in the 1970s, the MiG-29 was meant primarily to counter the U.S. F-16 and still remains in service across multiple air ...

A group of nearly 200 North Korean defectors living in South Korea is pushing to deploy to Ukraine so they can launch a psychological warfare campaign against their former comrades, now reportedly ...

So who will? If the sports and culture website Defector is any model, we can find stability within each other. Defector was founded in 2020 by the former staff of the sports and culture website ...

Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. More than 30,000 North Korean defectors arrived in South Korea during the last few decades. Since 2012, only 30 have returned.

[Integza]’s rocketry projects are one such example, so he decided to explore turning a MIG welder into a 3D printer for his own nefarious purposes. (Video, embedded below.) The build is as ...

Four years ago, Defector Media launched with a great story: It was a punchy, eclectic sports website run — and, crucially, owned — by former employees of sports website Deadspin, who had quit ...

The MiG-25 Defection At the time of his defection, 1976, Belenko was stationed at Chuguyevka Air Base in the Soviet Far East as part of the Air Defense Forces, a branch separate from the Soviet ...