Word: 23s
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...also expanded their arsenals. Saudi Arabia has bought 300 tanks from the U.S. and Britain, and has an additional 500 on order; it will also soon receive 128 fighter jets from the U.S. and France. Iraq is beefing up its arsenal with orders to the Soviets for 40 MIG-23s in addition to the 30 they already have. Libya last year signed a $2 billion arms deal with the Soviets that includes 24 MIG-23s, 1,100 tanks, 800 armored personnel carriers and 50 batteries of antiaircraft missiles. Since these enormous quantities are well beyond Libya's defense needs...
...also has, in certain areas, an advantage created by sophisticated technology. American missiles are more accurate than their Soviet counterparts, American submarines are less noisy (thus more difficult to detect), and U.S.A.F. F-4s and F-15s are more versatile and powerful than the Russian MIG 21s and MIG 23s. What worries the analysts is that this superiority may not last, since the Soviets seem determined to narrow the quality gap. Moscow publishes no figures on its military expenditures, but the Soviet Union seems to be devoting an ever greater share of national spending to defense. Pentagon experts estimate that...
...Eagle fighter. The 1,650-m.p.h. F-15 is the only aircraft that may be capable of outperforming the MIG-23 "Flogger," which threatens to be Israel's scourge in the air. Thus far the Soviet Union has delivered 70 MIG-23s to Syria, and others are on order in Iraq and Egypt...
This week's cover story is a sales report of sorts. The goods are TOWs, AK-47s, F-5s, MIG-23s, C-130s, Uzi submachine guns and French commando daggers - commodities in one of the world's busiest and potentially most lethal markets, the world arms trade. Associate Editor Burton Pines and Reporter-Researcher Genevieve Wilson began working on the intricate story several weeks ago, as the already staccato pace of major arms deals accelerated. "The most startling figure we found," Wilson says, "is that arms sales have increased 6000% since 1952, from $300 million to $18 billion...
...Soviet-flown MIG-23s which can fly at 80,000 ft., an altitude that Phantoms cannot reach, are conducting intelligence missions out of Egyptian bases...