From Flight International 10 April 1976
MiG-25s over Britain?
Reports that Mikoyan MiG-25R Foxbat-A reconnaissance aircraft are making regular surveillance flights over the United Kingdom were last week flatly denied by the Ministry of Defence. Under-Secretary of State for the Royal Air Force Brynmor John said in the House of Commons on March 29 that there had been no high altitude intrusions into British sovereign airspace in the past 12 months. Nato officials would neither confirm nor deny reports of intrusions into other Nato airspace.
The reports originated on March 22 in the American aviation press which said that MiG-25s were "conducting daily surveillance mission over the Nato nations of Western Europe," as well as the Middle East and Mediterranean.
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