Word: 29s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev wishes to simultaneously expand his influence in the Arab world and pursue overtures toward Israel. Thus he has recently sold to Syria at least one squadron of MiG-29s, the Soviet equivalent of Israel's American-made F-16 jet fighters, but refuses to supply Damascus with sophisticated SS-23 land missiles. The disclosure that Israel possesses a comparable weapon has forced Gorbachev to denounce the missile in order to curry favor with Arab nations...
...tenacious, cigar-chomping Air Force general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960; in San Antonio. A World War II commander of U.S. air campaigns in Europe and the South Pacific, Twining was an unfaltering proponent of airpower and military might. B-29s under his command dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...crews the B-52 is known as BUFF, a fairly loving acronym that stands for Big Ugly Fat Fellow. But there are Air Force men who think it should have been put out to pasture long ago in the Arizona desert, along with the retired squadrons of B-29s and B-50s. Some of them are hoping for a variant of the expensive but supersonic B-1 bomber, especially in view of the new Administration's defense policy...