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Re:A pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet by vilhelm_s on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:03AM (#12443968)
It might not be extremely out of date. According to some random wiki[0],

"In 1963 Westinghouse was awarded a US Navy contract for the AN/AWG-10 to provide fire control for guns and Raytheon AIM-7 Sparrow and Raytheon AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles on the F-4B Phantom II. The first radars were delivered in 1966 and became standard equipment. The AN/AWG-10 was claimed to be the first interceptor radar to feature transistorised circuitry."

Meanwhile, the MiG-25 first flew in 1964, which would suggest that at that time it was developed western interceptors used tube-based radars too.

[0] http://wiki.scramble.nl/index.php/Westinghouse_AN/APQ-72

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Re:A pilot who stole a secret Soviet fighter jet by nickff on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:34PM (#12444758)
Most aircraft make their initial flights without their first avionics suite (including radar and weapons control systems). Since the MiG-25 was introduced into service in 1970, and the radar it used was a development of another first used on an aircraft that entered service in 1964, I would hazard to guess that the Foxbat's radar wasn't delivered until 1965-1969.
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