The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...

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 ...

high-altitude, reconnaissance aircraft capable of evading even the most advanced technology of the West. When the MiG-25 entered service, it quickly became a kind of “boogeyman” aircraft ...

The MiG-41 could take after the American SR-72 Darkstar “Son of Blackbird” the next-generation ultra-high speed and high-altitude spy plane developed by Lockheed Martin. Or it could be built ...

The Soviet MiG-21 served as the primary high-altitude fighter in the North Vietnamese arsenal. Capable of flying more than twice the speed of sound and armed with a 30mm cannon and air-to-air ...

The MiG-29 can reach nearly 1,500 mph at altitude (its service ceiling is a little over 59,000 feet) and over 900 mph near the ground.

DRDO conducts successful high-altitude trial of indigenous ILSS for LCA Tejas, eliminating need for traditional oxygen systems.

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat ... 2,150 mph at high altitudes, making it the second fastest jet on Earth. The jet had advantages over others and set many speed and altitude records in its ...