Perhaps a little too ready, as Viktor Belenko, a Russian defector, stole a MiG-25 and told U.S. Intelligence ... communist targets throughout the Asian side of the Communist Bloc, MiG-25s from ...

A fully fueled MiG-25 weighed 64,000 pounds, by contrast, the U.S. Navy’s F-18 only weighs 48,000 pounds in the same state. Furthermore, its vaunted airspeed and altitude records were mostly flukes.