Word: antiair
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...victim of an elaborate conspiracy-the standard and not always inaccurate explanation for anything that happens in South Viet Nam. He was shot down, so the story went, by personal or political enemies. U.S. intelligence officers suspect that Tri's helicopter was actually downed by Communist antiair craft fire; the government circulated its story of mechanical failure, they say, to deprive the enemy of the satisfaction of having killed one of South Viet Nam's foremost military heroes...
...them headed southward toward the Czechoslovak border. The Kremlin announced a two-week series of maneuvers by supply and repair units of the Red army from Riga on the Baltic to Odessa on the Black Sea and, of course, along the frontier with Slovakia. The Russians also launched nationwide antiair craft exercises under the code name Operation Skyshield...
...month, the nation's two leading par ties had been locked in a noisy wrangle over defense spending, and in the midst of it, conservative Defense Minister Georg Prader was hard put to explain how he blew this year's entire arms budget on 36 Swiss Oerlikon antiair craft guns. That brought the self-righteous charge from a Socialist Party news paper that the price of one Oerlikon would pay for 125 new workers' apartments. More to the point, however, was the fact that although the Oerlikon is deadly against low-flying planes, its maximum range...
...General Vasily Stalin, son of the Great Comrade Joseph Stalin,* the Aviation Day he had staged was a sparkling success. Barely 30, he is the youngest general in Russia's armed forces, a fighter pilot, and head of a topflight command: the Moscow district of the elite PVO (AntiAir Defense Command), the legendary, jet-riding "Golden Falcons," watchmen of the Soviet skies...
...Antiair Gunnery (Cont...