On the 6th of September 1976, a fighter-pilot of the Soviet Union did the unthinkable. During a training mission near the Siberian airbase Chuguyevka, near Vladivostok, ussr pilot Viktor Belenko, ...

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 ...

The incident got the world press going wild with stories about the MiG-25 and U.S. Defence Secretary Schlesinger stated that the new Soviet interceptor was a sufficiently potent weapon to bring about ...

The Cold War was one of the most dangerous periods of recent world history. The United States, the Soviets, and the wider world around them can thank their lucky stars that it didn't escalate into a ...

Pilot Viktor Belenko’s defection was a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union—which was subsequently shocked into establishing tighter security and coerced indoctrination programs for their military ...

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, ...

A vast cattle farm in the US where a Cold War defector once hid out has sold to a secret buyer. The story began in 1976, when a Soviet fighter jet mysteriously appeared in the sky over the Sea of ...