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  • Viktor Belenko, Who Defected to the West in a MiG-25 Foxbat Jet Fighter, has passed away

    06/30/2025 10:54:45 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 37 replies
    The Aviation Geek Club ^ | Nov 22, 2023 | Dario Leone
    Viktor Belenko, the former Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot who defected to the West in 1976 in a MiG-25 high-speed interceptor, has passed away on Sep. 24, 2023 Alert 5 first noted. He died in a nursing home in a small town in Southern Illinois on Sep. 24. However, journalists learned about his death only now. The New York Times quoted Belenko’s son, Paul Schmidt, on Nov. 20 as saying that his father had died after a brief, unspecified illness in a nursing home in Rosebud, Illinois. Viktor Belenko was born into a simple family of Soviet workers on Feb....
  • Look at what Saddam had hidden in the sand!

    03/24/2004 11:37:02 PM PST · by johnmorris886 · 52 replies · 746+ views
    Military Magazine | April 2004 | Lawrence H. Boteler
    An Iraqi jet, an advanced Russian MiG-25 Foxbat, was found in August 2003 buried in the sand after an informant tipped off U.S. troops. The MiG was dug out of a massive sand dune near the Al Taqqadum airfield by U.S. Air Force recovery teams. The MiG was reportedly one of over two dozen Iraqi jets buried in the sand, like hidden treasure, waiting to be recovered at a later date. Contrary to what some in the major media have reported, not all the jets found were from the Gulf War-era. The Russian-made MiG-25 Foxbat being recovered by U.S. Air...