The Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird (or, as its aircrew members have dubbed it, the Habu, after a pit viper indigenous to Japan) is, without a doubt, one of the most legendary and iconic military aircraft of all time, by simple virtue of the fact that 58 years after its invention and 23 years after its official retirement (retired by the U.S. Air Force in 1998 and by NASA the
For a span of time during the Cold War, the short-lived infamy of the MiG-25 'Foxbat' evoked fear in the U.S. until a defector unveiled the jet's secrets.
The MiG-31 bears a striking cosmetic resemblance to the MiG-25, which probably explains at least in part why NATO retained the “Fox” portion when assigning its codename to the successor aircraft.