The MiG-25 Foxbat was an incredible rat rod of a plane—heavy,sizable and extraordinarily powerful—and it indirectly led to the development of Western planes like the F-15 Eagle. In the 1970s, the United States Air Force didn’t know much about it, and until a Soviet pilot named Viktor Belenko decided to defect and landed one in Hakodate,Japan, 40 years ago nowadays.
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Source: jalopnik.com