The Soviet Foxbat That Panicked the Pentagon: How the MiG-25 Bent the Sky

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The Soviet Foxbat That Panicked the Pentagon: How the MiG-25 Bent the Sky.
The MiG-25 Foxbat forced the Pentagon to rewrite the playbook—long before anyone in the West truly understood it. From Mach-3 rumors to a dramatic defection in Japan, this is how a steel-skinned interceptor bent the sky and reshaped U.S. fighter goals.
In this video, we unpack the Foxbat’s real mission, its “brute force” engineering (R-15 engines, massive intakes, high-altitude radar), what Belenko’s 1976 landing revealed, and how it pushed the U.S. toward next-gen air superiority. Stay to the end for the MiG-31 hand-off—and the enduring myths.

Chapters
0:00 Hook — “Speed’s Paradox”
0:40 The Cold War bomber problem
2:05 Design by steel: intakes, engines, radar
4:10 Airshow shock: myth vs. data
6:15 Sinai runs: why no one could catch it
8:20 Belenko’s defection: inside the Foxbat
10:30 Records, upgrades & the MiG-31
12:15 What the Foxbat changed (and what it didn’t)

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