Foxbat Foxbat Foxbat!!!

The latest in my “What if Never?” series covers the MiG-25 “Foxbat”:

The MiG-25 (NATO reporting name: Foxbat) was one of the most awesome, yet most misunderstood , fighters of the Cold War. Envisioned as an interceptor designed to destroy U.S. supersonic bombers and high-flying spy planes, the Foxbat also put its high speed to good use as a reconnaissance aircraft and, to less good effect, as a fighter-bomber. The Foxbat also became a mainstay on the global export market, eventually serving in the air forces of over a dozen countries, and seeing combat in Lebanon, in the Syrian Civil War, over Egypt, in the Kargil War, in the Iran-Iraq War, the Persian Gulf War and the Libyan Civil War.

But what if the Foxbat had failed?