On September 6, 1976, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Air Defense Forces defected by flying his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25P "Foxbat" aircraft from...
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Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко; February 15, 1947 – September 24, 2023) was a Soviet-born American aerospace engineer and pilot...
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Army. Riad al-Asaad, founder of the Free Syrian Army and the entire Tlass Family during the Syrian civil war. Viktor Belenko, a Soviet Air Force lieutenant...
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Firefox (novel) (section Origin of the story idea)
1976 defection of Viktor Belenko, a Soviet Air Defence pilot who flew his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan and gained asylum in the United States. Belenko's defection...
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inspired by the 1976 defection of Viktor Belenko, a Soviet Air Defense pilot who flew his MiG-25 Foxbat to Japan. Belenko's defection took place shortly...
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Operation Diamond (category Defection)
military transport helicopter Defection of Viktor Belenko - Taking with him a MiG-25 to Japan List of Cold War pilot defections עמוס גלבוע ואפרים לפיד (עורכים)...
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Mikoyan MiG-31 (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2023)
Retrieved 2019-02-02. Eyster, II, James P. (1977). "The Defection of Viktor Belenko: The Use of International Law to Justify Political Decisions". Fordham...
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Nuvistor (section Dissection of a Nuvistor triode tube)
the fighter's electronics; this was discovered following the defection of Viktor Belenko. Nuvistor sockets have a standardized layout based on four imaginary...
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The Hunt for Red October (category Defection in fiction)
1968, and recovered by 1974's Project Azorian. The 1976 defection of Viktor Belenko flying his MiG-25P "Foxbat" aircraft from the Soviet Union to Japan...
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Escape of Lieutenant Belenko is a 1980 biography by John Barron about the life and 1976 defection of Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 fighter pilot Viktor Belenko...
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Munir Redfa (category Israeli people of Iraqi descent)
Church. Redfa died of a heart attack around 1998. Viktor Belenko List of Cold War pilot defections Reuven Weiss (May 29, 2007). "The Blue Bird legend"...
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though some defections still occurred. During and after World War II, similar restrictions were put in place in non-Soviet countries of the Eastern Bloc...
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Emigration from the Eastern Bloc (redirect from Soviet defection)
returned in 1984), Mig-25 pilot Viktor Belenko, U.N. Undersecretary General Arkady Shevchenko, chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, ballet stars Rudolf Nureyev...
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late 1960s. The capabilities of the MiG-25 were better understood by the West in 1976 when Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected in a MiG-25 to the United...
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"MIG-25 defection: How a Soviet pilot brought a secret warplane to the West". The Aviationist. Eyster, James P. (1977). "The Defection of Viktor Belenko: The...
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11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (category Air armies of the Russian Air Forces)
period, the 11th Air Defence Army gained headlines due to the defection of Viktor Belenko in September 1976, and the KAL 007 shootdown in 1983. The KAL...
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let Vronsky stay in the country. On September 6, 1976, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko flew to Hakodate Airport in Japan and defected with his MiG-25P to Hakodate...
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based on the circumstances surrounding the defection of Soviet Air Force pilot Viktor Belenko and the capture of the MiG-25 "Foxbat" fighter. It was the...
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several prominent cases of airspace violations. Viktor Belenko MiG-25 defection (September 6, 1976) Soviet Tu-16 violation of airspace over Okinawa (December...
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Aleksandr Zuyev (pilot) (category Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2001)
1992, ISBN 978-0-446-51648-8 Biography portal Viktor Belenko List of Cold War pilot defections List of Eastern Bloc defectors Fulcrum: A Top Gun Pilot's...
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R-40 (missile) (category Air-to-air missiles of the Soviet Union)
surface-to-air missile. Following the defection of Soviet Air Defense Forces pilot Viktor Belenko in 1976 and the compromising of the MiG-25P's systems and the...
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Illegal emigration (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2016)
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Mig-25 pilot Viktor Belenko, U.N. Undersecretary General Arkady Shevchenko, chess grand master Viktor Korchnoi, ballet stars Mikhail...
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planes. In September 1976, Chuguyevka Air Base rose to prominence when Viktor Belenko, a MiG-25 pilot stationed at the base, defected to the United States...
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he contrasted the star treatment of Lt. Viktor Belenko, who flew a valuable MiG-25 fighter to Japan with that of First Lt. Valentin Zosimov, who flew...
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Thomas P. Stafford (category Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)
and was involved in the interview of Viktor Belenko after his defection. Stafford also managed the development of the XST, which would later evolve into...
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mentioned or used for the movie. For instance, references to Viktor Belenko's defection to Japan in 1976 were mentioned by Arakawa himself when he spoke...
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electronic equipment. The U.S. granted Belenko's request for asylum the day after his defection. Vietnam disclosed the names of 12 American pilots (seven U.S....
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