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...week's end General Giap was still pondering that price-and perhaps plotting new surprises. To preclude one such possibility, intelligence officers spread the warning among U.S. bases that North Vietnamese MIG-21s may strike Khe Sanh or other places in I Corps and that Hanoi might even try to send its handful of Russian IL-28 jet bombers as far south as Saigon. For several months, Giap is known to have been considering the use of warplanes in the south. Despite the huge array of U.S. radar, missiles and interceptors stationed to defeat any such attempt, the experts...
...welfare of North Koreans: the military takes some 30% of the nation's budget. With more than 650 planes in its air force, North Korea has an air capability far superior to anything North Viet Nam ever possessed, and North Korean pilots know how to fly their MIG-21s...
...North Vietnamese capital and China. U.S. Thunderchief and Phantom fighter-bombers scored four direct hits on the steel structure, sent a 300-ft. center span-splashing into the Red River. Elsewhere over the North, Air Force fighter-bombers pounded rail yards, and Navy pilots shot down two MIG-21s...
...equipment from the fleeing Egyptians. At bases in the Sinai and in Israel, the Israelis have been showing off some of the weaponry to Western technicians and, on at least one occasion, even lending it out. The U.S. sent transport planes to Israel to pick up three captured MIG-21s, the Soviet Union's best fighters. Two MIG-21s, the first ever to fall into U.S. hands, are being test-flown at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The third is being evaluated in laboratories at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Since MIG-21s sometimes challenge...
...quickly? Much of the answer can be found in the almost incredible lack of Arab planning, coordination and communications. Despite their swift defeat in 1956, this time the Arabs seemed to expect a long, leisurely war of attrition. Though two squadrons of Algerian MIG-21s arrived, they were a fatal 24 hours too late because Egyptian commanders had failed to instruct them which airbase to head for. In retrospect, it might have been even worse if they had arrived in time for the Israeli raids. Five planeloads of Moroccan troops actually got to Cairo, but five others were grounded...