Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanation was a fear of terrorism, which lately has increased both in ferocity and sophistication at European airports. Adding urgency to the precautionary measures were rumors that terrorists were roaming the area with antiaircraft missiles. According to one report, the extremists had Soviet-built SA-7 Strelas, a shoulder-launched missile. Another rumor was that they had broken into NATO bases in Brussels and stolen Redeye missiles, the U.S. counterpart of the Strela. Whatever the case, European security men were plainly worried...
...airpower on the battlefield. Ian Smart, deputy director of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs, notes that "Soviet technology in Arab hands has consigned to history" an era in which the "tank and aircraft ruled the battlefield." The introduction of new highly mobile and simply operated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, Smart argues, "marks a transformation that recalls the way in which the longbow enabled the English foot soldier of the 14th century to overcome the mounted knight. The Arab guiding his Snapper [antitank missile] to destroy a 50-ton tank has been refighting the Battle...
American engineers are already dissecting and studying a Soviet SA-6 antiaircraft missile that was captured intact by the Israelis. Presumably, they will soon be able to develop electronic devices to confuse that missile's targeting mechanism-just as they did with the Soviet SA-2 and SA3 missiles after U.S. pilots encountered them over North Viet...
Even before the Yom Kippur War, the Soviets were the principal tutors and suppliers of the Egyptian and Syrian armed forces. They not only replaced the enormous Arab losses of the 1967 war but delivered hundreds of additional tanks and planes. They gave the Egyptians and Syrians sophisticated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, including the potent SA-6 missile, as well as advisers to instruct the Arabs in their...
...thrown three bridges across the canal: two pontoons and one special bridge for heavy traffic. Despite Egyptian efforts, including two suicide helicopter plunges, the bridges were not taken out. When we returned, the procession of heavy equipment to the western bank was continuing. Radar units, prefabricated housing, searchlights, antiaircraft guns, big artillery pieces and more troops moved across...