Word: 21s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a day before, sonic booms and cannon fire reverberated in the clear blue sky as Israeli and Syrian jets clashed over Lebanon. Flying U.S.-built F-15 fighters, Israeli pilots shot down four MiG-21s in a 90-sec. dogfight apparently provoked by the Syrians. The Israelis claimed that all their planes went unscathed. The dogfight underscored the fragility of the Lebanese ceasefire...
Emblazoned with the star of David, U.S.-supplied F-15s streaked low over the Mediterranean last week, protecting other Israeli planes on a bombing run of suspected Palestinian positions near Sidon and Damour in southern Lebanon. When the Israelis spotted eight Syrian MiG-21s flying toward them in close formation, the F-15 pilots fired their missiles. In the brief but fiery battle, which was joined by Israeli Kfir jets, at least six of the Syrian jets plummeted to earth. The Israelis returned to their home bases unscathed...
...fascist dictator is finished!" the invaders shouted over loudspeakers as they moved slowly through the city. Two nights before, the Tanzanian army unleashed an assault on Kampala: a dozen MiG-21s screamed over the city, strafing military targets, and an eight-hour artillery barrage lit the skyline with almost continuous flashes. Next day the invading force was greeted by jubilant Kampalans who danced in the streets and tossed flowers at the advancing tanks. Accompanying the Tanzanians was TIME'S Tony Avirgan, who observed: "The whole thing took on the air of a victory parade, but at times the revelry...
...quality is vastly superior. Hanoi has 300 combat aircraft in all; about 700 Chinese planes are within striking range of Viet Nam. Most of those ready for combat, however, are outdated MiG-17s and MiG-19s, whereas the Vietnamese have not only the slightly more advanced MiG-21s but also the versatile F-5 "freedom fighters" captured from the Americans...
...military airfield at Dire Dawa, dozens of green-and-brown-camouflaged MiG-17s and 21s thunder off into the sky each day to strike at Somali forces hundreds of miles away. As they roar down the runway, mules pulling carts plod past the barbed-wire boundaries of the tarmac, carrying jugs of water. The combatants themselves are hardly better off. There are indications on both sides that the greenest troops are pushed into the front lines. One captured Somali who said he was 13 years old was shown off by the Ethiopians in Harar. The youth claimed he had been...