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That possibility drew attention to a little-known aspect of American military training. The U.S. has managed to assemble a minisquadron of between four and 15 Floggers, as well as at least a dozen of the more easily obtainable MiG-21s. All of the MiG-23s, which the Soviets began producing in 1973, were purchased from Egypt. Cairo had acquired an extensive Soviet-built arsenal, including the Floggers, from 1955 to 1974, when Egypt was one of Moscow's most valued client-states...
...Syrian army lost more than 390 tanks, including 34 of the modern T-72s. The Syrian performance in the air was no better. Flying U.S.-built F-15s and F-16s, Israeli pilots downed 96 Soviet-built jets; one-fifth were newer-model MiG-25s and MiG-23s. Israeli pilots also wiped out 23 batteries of Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles. The official Soviet press dismissed the reports as CIA disinformation, but the Kremlin took them seriously enough and quickly dispatched several high-level military delegations to survey the destruction...
NATO arms-control experts downplayed the Soviet threat to station new missiles in Eastern Europe: some Soviet missiles and warheads were already in the East bloc satellites, and their replacement by a new generation of shorterrange, mobile SS-21s, SS-22s and SS-23s has been expected for some time...
...progress in Geneva, but refused to say how long such a walkout might last. Similarly, Western defense experts believe that the Soviets are developing a sea-launched cruise missile and are planning to replace older missiles in Eastern Europe with newer, short-range SS-21s, SS-22s and SS-23s...
...Anchorage over the Bering Sea in the early-morning darkness, came under the watchful eye of Soviet radar. For the next 2½ hr. the blip moved into and out of Soviet airspace. When it crossed over the eastern border of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Soviets scrambled four MiG-23s and Su-15s from the Petropavlovsk airbase on Kamchatka to search for the intruder. Just after 3 a.m., over the Soviet island of Sakhalin, where another six interceptors had given pursuit, the hunters found their quarry...