Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The MiG-25 Foxbat (NATO name) was one of the fastest military aircraft ever to enter service. It was constructed as an interceptor, mainly in stainless steel, and was a heavy and not very agile aircraft, although NATO feared it would be.

SOURCES:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) - the text has been remixed and shortened
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) - the text has been remixed and shortened

MEDIA:
Various images in the Public Domain.

"MiG-25RBS at the Ukrainian Air Force Museum in Vinnytsia" by George Chernilevsky, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#/media/File:MiG-25RBS_2007_G1.jpg, License CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
"A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25PU of the Russian Air Force during MAKS airshow in 2005." by Sergey Krivchikov, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25_in_Russian_service#/media/File:Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25UB,_MAKS_2005.jpg, License GFDL 1.2 (gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)
"MAKS Airshow 2015 МиГ-25 (MiG-25)" by Vitaly V. Kuzmin, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25_in_Russian_service#/media/File:MAKS2015part3-08.jpg, License CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
Russian Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25RB Pichugin-1.jpg by Dmitriy Pichugin, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_Air_Force_Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25RB_Pichugin-1.jpg, License GFDL 1.2 (gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)
"Russian Air Force MiG-25RBS" by Dmitriy Pichugin, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25_in_Russian_service#/media/File:MiG-25RBS_Pichugin-1.jpg, License GFDL 1.2 (gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)

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