MiG-23 Flogger: The Soviet Fighter that Failed to Impress The MiG-23 is one awful fighter, and the U.S. Air Force thankfully has no fighter jet that can match its terrible history. Pity the poor ...

The Soviet Union's MiG-25 was a big, scary, high-speed fighter. That is, until Western governments got their hands on it, thanks to Soviet Flight Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Belenko. This post is ...

In fact, stemming back to the Soviet era, realistic stats concerning specs and capabilities of defense platforms were often exaggerated. When the USSR debuted the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 “Foxbat ...

On September 24, 1958, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force faced disaster as its J-5 “Fresco” jets, copied Soviet MiG-17s, fought with Taiwanese F-86F Sabres in Wenzhou Bay.

A Russian pilot claimed he was able ... It has a top speed of Mach 3, and can hit Mach 1.23 at low altitudes. Source: The National Interest. The MiG-31 can also reach 65,000 feet in nearly 9 ...

The F-5 Tiger was intended to be a fighter jet mass-produced for taking down adversarial planes like the Soviet MiG, and over time, it became overwhelmingly popular. The acrobatic, easy-to-fly ...