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When the Navy went looking for new aircraft for its "Aggressor Squadron," the search became bogged down by the time-consuming complexities of competitive bidding. The Navy's needs were special: the Aggressor unit employs simulated Soviet planes to train U.S. pilots in aerial warfare. Last week the Navy solved its problem, agreeing to lease twelve Kfir-Ci warplanes from Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) for 3½ years. The Kfir is said to be superior in speed and maneuverability to the Soviet MiG-21 fighter jets...
American specialists put the Soviet aircraft through extensive tests to determine their capabilities. The planes are also used in simulated combat exercises, staging air skirmishes with U.S. fighters to give American pilots training in Soviet air-battle techniques. Publicly, the Air Force acknowledges only that four "aggressor squadrons" of U.S.-made F-5Es are used to mimic MiGs. A spokesman at Nellis said no such "red flag" training exercises were in progress on the day Bond crashed...
...Soviet Union." A nation launching a first strike will effectively commit suicide regardless of the adversary's response. As Sagan put it in a recent lecture at the Kennedy School, "the attacked nation need not lift a finger for retribution swift and final to fall on the aggressor...
...that "fierce, mighty weapons"-presumably, short-range SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 missiles-had already been installed in East Germany and Czechoslovakia to counter the NATO threat. A Soviet officer quoted in the newspaper explained that "we must be prepared to give a due rebuff to the aggressor." But if Moscow was stiff as ever about intermediate-range missiles, Gro myko did suggest that the Soviets would return, probably in mid-March, to the Vienna negotiations on the reduction of conventional forces in Europe, which the Soviets "suspended" just before Christmas...
...definition of the goals of the Israeli state. Israel could no longer pretend to be entirely unified, as groups such as Oz's Peace Now movement sponsored anti-war demonstrations in the capital. Less obvious but equally important was the widespread disappointment with the image of Israel the aggressor. Israelis could blame the Arabs for all six previous Arab-Israeli wars, and could justify the bloodshed as the defense of Israel's very existence. The situation in Lebanon is less obvious, and the result is open dissension...