The MiG-25 was hopelessly outclassed by the F-14A in a dogfight. ... Iranian officers who had defected to Iraq in 1980 revealed the blueprints of the Iranian early warning radar network to Baghdad.

One would down an F/A-18 from an Iraqi MiG-25 in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, with a second one causing damage to a USAF F-15 jet later that same year. The Foxbat's radar system was also severely ...

The MiG-25 offered a potent radar system of its time, but the MiG-31 far outpaces it. In fact, the MiG-31 was the first of its kind with an electrically scanned N007 Zaslon phased array radar.

What made the MiG-25 special was its extreme speed and ability to fly very, very high. More than 50 years since it was introduced into the service, The MiG-25 could fly up to 123,000 feet (around ...

By Mohit Charan. Forty years ago, on August 25, 1981, Indian Air Force’s, then latest acquisition, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25, rechristened as Garuda, flew its first sortie.