all the russians sources and accounts i have read up to now, do not support that, the F-15 was the only MiG-25 killer and only 2 aircraft were shot down
could be. I don’t have a way to figure out, I don’t know russian.
this is one source that supports my point.
http://www.spyflight.co.uk/foxb.htm
Four Foxbat-B’s, along with Soviet pilots and technicians, were ‘detached’ to a couple of friendly countries – Algeria and Vietnam. The first actual exports occurred in 1982 when eight Foxbat-B’s were sold to India, these aircraft are operated by a special flight of 106 Sqn at Uttar Pradesh airbase and are usually targeted against Pakistan. Foxbat-B’s have also been supplied to Iraq, Syria, Libya and Syria.
The MiG-25B’s were operated from Syria bases from late 1975, initially with Soviet pilots and ground crew. On 13 Feb 81 two Israeli RF-4F’s flew a high-altitude reconnaissance mission over the Lebanon designed to lure the Syrian Foxbat’s into the air. However, as the two Syrian Foxbat’s climbed towards the RF-4F’s, they withdrew at high speed dispensing chaff and jamming the Foxbat’s radar with their ECM pods. As the Syrian pilots attempted to catch the Israeli aircraft, the trap was sprung. Two Israeli F-15A’s were directed onto the Foxbat’s either by ground radar or by a patrolling E-2C Hawkeye and fired AIM-7F Sparrow missiles at the aircraft. One Foxbat was destroyed but one managed to escape. The Israeli’s repeated this ‘entrapment’ on 29 Jul 81 and destroyed another Syrian Foxbat. On 31 Aug 83 another Syrian Foxbat was damaged by a specially modified Israeli Hawk SAM and subsequently dispatched by an F-15A.
btw, if that was what the foxbats did, doesn’t this mean they had some rudimentary A2A capability at the very least ?
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