On 9 December 2025, a modified Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat light sport aircraft was shot down by mobile air-defence gunners of the Russian National Guard, near Grozny in the Republic of ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: However, the true inheritor of the Foxbat are the MiG-31 Foxhound, which continues, in Russian service, to perform its original patrol and interception missions, and ...

When the U.S. government got its hands on spy shots of an early prototype of the Russian MiG-25 Foxbat, there was a bit of a panic. The U.S. assumed this massive fighter aircraft they were looking at ...

MiG-25 Key Points and Summary - The Soviet MiG-25 "Foxbat" was a feared and mysterious super-interceptor, a "paper tiger" whose myth was shattered by the 1976 defection of pilot Viktor Belenko.

The Foxbat could fly at extreme speeds—but in doing so, it would risk damage to the airframe and engines, which were far less sophisticated than their American counterparts. The National Museum of the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Envisioned as an interceptor designed to destroy U.S. supersonic bombers and high-flying spy planes, the Foxbat also put its high speed to good use as a ...

On a secret mission in 1997 a MiG-25 entered Pakistani airspace subsonically at around 65,000 ft and photographed strategic installations near Islamabad. It then turned back towards India with the ...

Since last year, the MyPlanet Rhino Fund, which is administered by the Endangered Wildlife Trust, has donated more than R3.5m to nine different non-profit organisations engaged in rhino conservation.

Images shared on social media provide an unprecedented look at one of the light aircraft turned into one-way drones by Ukraine. On Apr. 26, 2024, images surfaced on Russian social media depicting a ...

Forty years ago this month, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko stole the top secret MiG-25 and defected to Japan, allowing the West to examine his country's most advanced jet fighter. On Sept. 6, 1976, ...