Meanwhile, press secretary of the Krasnoyarsk hospital Irina Kochetkova confirmed to TASS earlier on Tuesday that the MiG-31 pilots were transferred to a military hospital. The pilots were not ...

Foxhound was the Soviet Union’s answer to high-speed threats like the SR-71 Blackbird and low-flying cruise missiles. Capable of reaching Mach 2.83, it was one of the fastest combat aircraft ever ...

Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that a MiG-31 fighter jet crashed in the Murmansk Region while flying a training sortie MURMANSK, April 26. /TASS/. The pilots of the MiG ...

There have been multiple accounts of MiG-31 fighters chasing away SR-71s, the legendary high-altitude US spy plane. A Russian pilot claimed he was able to lock his missiles onto an SR-71 during ...

Thunderchief pilots faced three formidable enemies over North Vietnam: antiaircraft guns, SA-2 surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), and MiG-17s and -21s. On a recent visit to the National Air and Space ...

Whenever veteran Soviet and American pilots squared off over MiG Alley, each took advantage of the two planes' strengths and weaknesses. American pilots who survived being shot down were ...