Until a Soviet pilot defected 40 years ago, yesterday. The BBC has the story of Flight Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Belenko and the mysterious MiG-25. Belenko, a disillusioned Soviet fighter pilot ...
A fully fueled MiG-25 weighed 64,000 pounds, by contrast, the U.S. Navy’s F-18 only weighs 48,000 pounds in the same state. Furthermore, its vaunted airspeed and altitude records were mostly flukes.