Word: 15s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dusk settles in on this warm June afternoon. Four F-15s from the Harvard Air Force streak across the sky, and as their vapor trails begin to fade, 10,000 rockets light up the sky, creating a vast crimson-and-yellow Ve-Ri-Tas shield and profile of a smiling Nathan M. Pusey. The 9000-member marching band strikes up a rousing final rendition of "Harvardiana...
Like the Entebbe rescue and a 1981 bombing raid that destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq, last week's attack had been elaborately planned. At dawn on Tuesday, eight F-15s took off from an air base in northern Israel, followed about 40 minutes later by eight F-16s. The F-16s were refueled by Israeli tanker planes; then they dived and continued to fly as low as possible over the Mediterranean to avoid radar detection, approaching Tunis from the south. While the F-16s staged the bombing raid, the F-15s remained in reserve some 500 miles away. Near...
Iranian pilots have been careful to target only tankers that have come from ports in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, two nations that have contributed generously to the Iraqi war chest. But after at least one of their planes was shot down last month by U.S.-made F-15s of the Saudi air force, the Iranians avoided attacking any vessels in a stretch of water from Kuwait to the tip of Qatar, an area that is watched by U.S. AWACS planes leased to the Saudis. Last week's strike on the Primrose came about 120 miles east of that zone...
...this highly charged atmosphere last week that Saudi Arabia finally, and reluctantly, fought back. Despite their arsenal of 130 sophisticated aircraft, including 60 American-made F-15s, the Saudis had been thought to be fearful of provoking Iran into a wider war and uneasy about the ability of their own inexperienced pilots...
...patrol of Saudi F-15 planes. Highflying U.S. AWACS planes had tracked the Iranian jets across the gulf, then Saudi coastal radar picked them up when they came within range. With the Saudi technician aboard the AWACS plane relaying information and guiding his own fighters, the two Saudi F-15s intercepted the less-advanced F-4s, and the fight took place...