By Randy Malmstrom Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft ...

Viktor Belenko, a Soviet pilot, defected to the West in 1976 by flying his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan ... The Foxbat influenced ...

The Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) series stands as one of the most iconic fighter jets in the world. These were popular among Soviet ...

Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom Collins put the MiG-15 through its paces, technicians inspected it for signs of sabotage and determined it was safe. The MiG was ...

Unlike the MiG-25, it has a backseat for the Weapons Systems Officer to operate the Zaslon radar. The Zaslon S-800 Passive Electronically Scanned Array radar was made to track low flying bombers ...

a U.S. Navy fighter airplane called the F 9 F Panther confronted the first production Soviet Mig 15's that were being flown in Korea—the two airplanes were flying using essentially the same engine.

While the cancelation of the A-12 Avenger II came a few months before the collapse of the USSR, its demise was in full swing.

Measuring 50 feet (15 meters) with a wingspan of 39 feet ... conflicts in the latter half of the 20th century. Heck, the MiG-21 flying coffin is still in service today.

An unusual formation flew over Nellis AFB to honor retired U.S. Air Force Col. Gail Peck, "Bandit 1", who passed away ...

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

Here 24/7 Wall St. is taking a closer look into these countries that still fly MiGs. To identify the ... interception and ground attack. The MiG-15 debuted in 1947 and marked a significant ...

While the Japanese government refused to allow anyone to fly the aircraft fearing ... Belenko’s delivery of a MiG-25 to American specialists proved that the F-15 was, in fact, incredibly ...