U.S. warplanes came within two minutes of firing at an Iraqi MIG-25 fighter jet after it sneaked into Saudi airspace last week, U.S. Iraqi MIG-25 Entered Saudi Space, U.S. Says - Los Angeles Times ...

During the Iran-Iraq war, F-5 played an extremely important role. It was used by Iran for various tasks, including CAS, interdiction and Combat Air Patrols. Iraq on the other hand operated various ...

How did two subsonic Iranian F-5s manage to intercept a blazing-fast Iraqi MiG-25 in 1986? In this video, we analyze this incredible real-world encounter from the Iran-Iraq War and fly it in DCS ...

The Iraqi MiG-25 pilots thus knew exactly where and how to enter the Iranian airspace unobserved before accelerating and climbing for the actual mission. As a result, ...

The MiG-25 was hopelessly outclassed by the F-14A in a dogfight. The Iraqi air force received its first Foxbats – 12 MiG-25P interceptors, 12 MiG-25R reconnaissance aircraft and six MiG-25PU ...

In the 1991 Gulf War the MiG-25 performed better, at least in Iraqi Air Force service. On the very first night of the air war over Iraq a pair of F/A-18Cs from VFA-81, ...

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 ...

In 2012, there were reports that Iraq sought a large new fleet of MiG-29s. ... An Iraqi Sukhoi Su-25 jet flies over the town of Amerli on September 3, 2014. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP ...

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.

Then on Dec. 23, 2002, an Iraqi MiG-25 intercepted one of the Predators and, for the first time, the two planes exchanged fire. Video of the brief battle , shot by the Predator, was obtained by ...

Forty years ago this month, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko stole the top secret MiG-25 and defected to Japan. ... In fact, the only F-15 jet downed in the Iraq War was by an Iraqi MiG-25.