page_title: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
section_title: Conversion trainers
hierarchical_section_title: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 / Variants / Conversion trainers
caption_attribution_description: Previously operated from Zhukovsky, probably by the Gromov Flight Research Institute. Now stored, either for display in a proposed museum, or for scrapping. c/n N22044011. Stored on a grass area next to part of the crowdline and seen during the Russian Air Force 100th Anniversary Airshow. Zhukovsky, Russia. 12-8-2012
context_page_description: The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that was among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. It was designed by the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau and is one of the few combat aircraft built primarily using stainless steel. It was the last plane designed by Mikhail Gurevich before his retirement.
  The first prototype flew in 1964, and the aircraft entered service in 1970. It has an operational top speed of Mach 2.83 and features a powerful radar and four air-to-air missiles. When first seen in reconnaissance photography, the large wings suggested an enormous and highly maneuverable fighter, at a time when U.S. design theories were also evolving towards higher maneuverability due to combat performance in the Vietnam War. The appearance of the MiG-25 sparked serious concern in the West and prompted dramatic increases in performance for the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle then under development in the late 1960s. The capabilities of the MiG-25 were better understood by the west in 1976 when Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected in a MiG-25 to the United States via Japan.
context_section_description: MiG-25PU
  Two-seat conversion trainer for MiG-25P interceptors. Fitted with a new nose section with two separate cockpits. It has no radar and no combat capability. NATO codename Foxbat-C.
  MiG-25RU
  Two-seat conversion trainer for reconnaissance versions. Fitted with MiG-25R navigation system. NATO codename Foxbat-C.
  Ye-133
  Designation given to single MiG-25PU used by Svetlana Savitskaya to establish a number of women's speed and height records, starting with speed over a 15–25 km course of 2,683.45 km/h (1.667.47 mph) on 22 June 1975.
caption: MiG-25PU trainer
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