Word: 21s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early this year, Russia offered Iran a $750 million natural-gas pipeline, Turkey a $200 million, seven-factory industrial complex, and sent Algeria a squadron of MIG-21s and two tank battalions. Iraq was promised an atomic reactor, given three squadrons of MIG-21s. Syria got a Soviet pledge of $150 million for a start on a Euphrates River dam that could prove even larger than Aswan, plus Soviet aid in rebuilding its railways and prospecting for Syrian oil. Nasser himself received four MIG squadrons, six submarines and a school of destroyers...
...said one officer, antiaircraft installations have been increased "to the point of saturation." Some 65 Soviet SAM sites (v. 30 or so pre-pause) are in place in the Hanoi-Haiphong area alone, half of them manned by Russian crews and many equipped with sophisticated new radar systems. MIG-21s have been spotted on airstrips in the North. In the South, there was evidence that the Viet Cong guerrillas might be equipped for the first time with 20-mm. and 37-mm. antiaircraft guns, which could seriously threaten the U.S. planes and helicopters that fly vital strafing and bombing missions...
...fight - usually small bands of desperate men operating in the central Escambray Mountains and in Castro's old Sierra Maestra stamping grounds. They face the full might of a 200,000-man army (plus 100,000 militia reserves) equipped with the best of everything Russian, including supersonic MIG-21s based outside of Havana. They also face Raul Castro, who used to be quite a guerrilla fighter himself but now heads the counterinsurgency operations and treats it as rather a sport...
...much the same story?Indian quantity and Pakistan quality. Indian pilots are flying a variety of fighters, from French Mystères and British Vampires to Russian MIG-21s and Indian-built Gnats. The Pakistanis have U.S. supersonic jets, which seem to have made a spectacular number of kills?Pakistani Air Vice Marshal Nur Khan claims that 108 Indian planes have been shot down. If true, that amounts to a fifth of the Indian air force...
...Reds are building to facilitate troop and supply movements. Moreover, U.S. pilots were flying missions under new "rules of engagement" authorizing hot pursuit of enemy jets right into Red China, if necessary. So far, it has not been necessary; though Peking now has supersonic MIG-19s and MIG-21s sitting at airbases in Yunnan province, just over the North Viet Nam border, and on Hainan Island, 150 miles east of the Viet Nam coast, the planes have been inactive...