What You Need to Know: The defection of Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko in 1976 revealed critical insights into the capabilities of the feared MiG-25 Foxbat, which he flew to Japan. The U.S. and Japanese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public domain Soviet pilot Victor Belenko defected with his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan in September 1976, riding out of the Iron ...

Forty years ago this month, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko stole the top secret MiG-25 and defected to Japan, allowing the West to examine his country's most advanced jet fighter. On Sept. 6, 1976, ...

Exactly 40 years ago yesterday, on September 6, 1976, one of the odder events of the Cold War took place. A Soviet twin-jet plane with a design no Western power had ever seen before suddenly landed at ...

Viktor Belenko died on September 24 th. Belenko defected from the former Soviet Union in 1976, and brought with him what then CIA director George H.W. Bush described as an “intelligence bonanza.” You ...

The Soviet Mikoyan MiG-25 was one of the fastest aircraft ever developed. A Cold War interceptor, the Foxbat as it was called, could fly at speeds of Mach 3+ and was designed to quickly intercept ...

An enormous western Montana cattle ranch that’s been in the same family for over seven decades and once served as the hideaway for Soviet defector Viktor Belenko is on the market for $21.7 million.

What You Need to Know: Viktor Belenko, a Soviet pilot, defected to the West in 1976 by flying his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan, shocking both the Soviet Union and the world. The MiG-25, one of the USSR’s ...