Summary and Key Points: Senior Defense Editor Christian D. Orr analyzes the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 “Foxhound,” a supersonic ...

Summary: The MiG-31 Foxhound, designed as a replacement for the MiG-25 Foxbat, is Russia’s fastest operational combat aircraft. -First flown in 1975, it was built to counter the American SR-71 spy ...

Ukraine destroyed a Russian MiG-31 jet and two cargo planes in an attack on a military airfield deep inside Russia earlier this month, according to Ukrainian media. A further five Russian aircraft ...

The MiG-31 is Still a Capable Combat Aircraft – Even as the Kremlin has been seen more as a paper tiger than a truly fearsome bear after it failed to achieve a quick victory in Ukraine, it still ...

July 6, 2025: Russian Aerospace forces currently have about 3,600 aircraft. Most of these aircraft are obsolete or no longer manufactured. The enormous Russian Defense production complex has been busy ...

When the United States began sending fresh consignments of Army Tactical Missile System rockets to Ukraine back in April, Russian commanders knew what was coming. After, Ukraine had gotten a small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NATO F-35 stealth fighters were scrambled in response to Russian jets flying in alliance airspace. Three Russian MiG-31 jets ...

Jack Buckby, a defense researcher and military analyst, provides a critical evaluation of Russia’s ambitious PAK-DP program, ...

Two Russian MiG-31K jets were transferred to Belarus this week, potentially signaling Russia’s efforts to protect its warplanes amid increasing Ukrainian strikes on Russian air bases. The last ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian fighter jet crashed ...