Word: 21s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make round trips to the U.S. There are some 700 medium bombers (range: 3,000 miles); the U.S. has had none since the B-47 was phased out. The Soviet tactical air force includes 4,800 planes, mainly attack bombers such as the YAK-28 and fighters (MIG-21s and SU-7s), which can be used for low-level bombing and strafing missions. There are also some 1,700 transport aircraft, including an estimated 20 of the monstrous Antonov-22s, which can carry 720 troops. Despite the Soviet advantage in numbers, most experts rate the U.S. Air Force superior...
...have already been detected around Cairo, Alexandria and the Aswan High Dam. Israel's tactic at the moment is to ignore distant installations but to attack possible sites within 15 miles of the Suez Canal. While bombing such sites last week, Israeli planes were intercepted by Egyptian MIG-21s. Four MIGs were downed in one running dogfight and five in another, the biggest bag for Israel's air force in six months...
...before the war, and, as a result, Tiberias is now the only sizable city that can be hit by shells lobbed from beyond Israel's frontiers. Meanwhile U.S.-built Israeli Phantoms strike regularly deep into Egypt without fear of challenge-or retaliation. Nasser's Soviet-made MIG-21s can reach major targets in Israel, but they are mainly defensive airplanes; with bomb racks added they would lack the range to make it back home. Besides, they would have to encounter Israeli pilots whose advantage over them in combat...
...west, though bitter artillery duels across the Suez Canal continued, the war of attrition between Egypt and Israel appeared to have eased slightly. Both sides continued jet attacks, but the planes hit only scattered military targets. In a dogfight over the northern Nile delta, Israeli pilots claimed two MIG-21s downed with cannon fire-the 73rd and 74th kills of Egyptian planes since...
More Planes than Pilots. With its policy in disarray and its Arab clients seeking help, Moscow must now decide what to do. Providing the Arabs with hotter equipment-new MIG-23 "Foxbats" to replace destroyed MIG-21s or SA3 missiles in lieu of the SA-2s-is impractical. The Egyptians are scarcely able to handle what they have been given. In an unusually frank interview with U.S. Newsmen William Tuohy and Rowland Evans, Nasser admitted last week that "we have more planes than pilots." Nor is Moscow likely to order its own military advisers to expose themselves to danger...