Phazotron Sapfir-23 and Sapfir-25 radar

I just checked the Marmain / Belyakov book and it doesn't say anything about the export version's radar in the Russian, French or English editions.

The recent MiG Flying Through Time book is similarly unhelpful.

Yefim Gordon specifically says the export MiG-25PD had the Smerch-A2 radar as does Piotr Butowski in various older publications.
 
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Thanks for looking, well we just have solid proof of the iraqi PDs having the Sapfir-25, so we should go with that rather than old, likely mistaken info. Cooper kept saying the same about the Smerch being in export PDs. You'd think with a drastic change such as a completely different radar the soviets would give them different designations, which of course it's not the case, we just have PD and PDS.

Incidentally, these export PDs are actually better equipped than soviet ones, they have the SPO-15 and KDS-155 which the soviet ones never received.
 
overscan (PaulMM) said:
I just checked the Marmain / Belyakov book and it doesn't say anything about the export version's radar in the Russian, French or English editions.

The recent MiG Flying Through Time book is similarly unhelpful.

Yefim Gordon specifically says the export MiG-25PD had the Smerch-A2 radar as does Piotr Butowski in various older publications.
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Hello,
As lancer21 said, all export PDs and PDS got the N005 radar (including those for Syria). It was not a big deal for the Soviets at the time since they already were receiving MiG-31s with N007 Zazlon.
lancer is also right about the presence of newer RWR equipment and countermeasures that the Soviet ones lacked.
 

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