The 210th industrial aircraft repair factory upgraded the 82nd regiment's MiG-25Ps to MiG-25PDS in the early eighties. The improved MiG-25PDS ‘Foxbat-E’ single-seat all-weather interceptor fighter aircraft fitted with new an undernose IR search and track system and new N-005 Saphir-25 (RP-25M) Pulse-Doppler radar with look-down/shoot down capability. Could be fitted with four R-60 ‘AA-8 Aphid’ air-to-air missiles replacing outermost two R-40 ‘AA–6 Acrid’ long-range air-to-air missile.
At the same time, the regiment got some factory new MiG-25PU ‘Foxbat-C’ trainer aircraft too.
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