Word: 29s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...radar had picked up the approach of the 509th Group's weather plane--and an all clear followed at 7:31, after the B-29 departed. Perhaps this apparently harmless sortie lulled the city's civil-defense monitors. In any case, just before 8:15 three more B-29s--the Enola Gay and two escorts--could be seen and then heard flying some 30,000 ft. over Hiroshima. No alarms sounded in time. The radio announcer on duty had received word that three enemy planes had been sighted, but he had momentarily paused to check his notes instead of grabbing...
...just that American M1A1 tanks made scrap metal out of Soviet T- 72s, which they did, or that Iraqi pilots of top-of-the-line MiG-29s were unwilling even to engage U.S. planes, which they were. Worse, from the Soviet and Chinese points of view, is the fact that they have no counterparts to the Western weapons that won the war in its first few days -- Stealth fighter- bombers, precision-guided munitions, electronic warfare. Hardest of all for the Soviet Union and China to accept is the near certainty that neither will be able to catch up with...
Saddam's vanished air force may reappear. His best planes -- MiG-29s and F-1 Mirages -- and his French-trained pilots have fled to Iran. But at least 350 others, mostly older MiGs, remain in Iraq in revetments and shelters. He could launch these, armed with conventional or chemical bombs, against the allied ground forces. He might even send some of them on kamikaze-style, one-way missions into Saudi Arabia and Israel. "Saddam appears prepared to lose those aircraft in strikes against us," warns a Pentagon general...
Still, there's no denying Japan's current competitive edge. It stems from many factors, beginning with the involuntary "restructuring" that occurred in 1944 and 1945. Today's LBOs are nothing compared with the old B-29s. But perhaps most important has been the willingness of the Japanese to postpone gratification: to work hard and save...