‘I Almost Shot Myself Down’: A MiG-25 Fired at an SR-71 Blackbird and the Unthinkable Might Have Happened

‘I Almost Shot Myself Down’: A MiG-25 Fired at an SR-71 Blackbird and the Unthinkable Might Have Happened

The Soviet Union was very concerned about the US’s fast, high-flying aircraft, such as the B-70 and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. That’s why they developed the MiG-25 Foxbat. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat wasn’t inherently a bad aircraft, but it was greatly overrated by the West, particularly after the defection of Viktor Belenko, which revealed it was a fast, high-altitude interceptor rather than a true dogfighter.  MiG-25 Russian Fighter-…