Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire shot down an unarmed U.S. RF4 Phantom reconnaissance plane, killing the crew of two. Since then other reconnaissance flights have been fired on but not hit. Late last week the U.S. retaliated with what Defense Secretary Melvin Laird elaborately called "limited-duration protective-reaction air strikes"-a 24-hour series of raids involving nearly 150 U.S. fighter-bombers from airfields in South Viet Nam and Thailand and from carriers in the Tonkin Gulf. Radio Hanoi asserted that the U.S. had attacked the port of Haiphong and other targets in the northern part...
Announcing the raids on Saturday, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird had said they were "limited duration protective reaction air strikes against missile and antiaircraft gun sites and related facilities in North Vietnam, south of the 19th parallel"-far to the south of Hanoi...
Bombers pounded North Vietnam from midnight until dawn, the deadline set by the Pentagon for completing what it called a series of retaliatory strikes against missile and antiaircraft gun positions and supply depots...
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird announced early today that U. S. warplanes are hitting North Vietnamese missile and antiaircraft gun positions "in response to attacks on our unarmed reconnaissance aircraft...
...silence Egyptian artillery. Since at least 15 of the sites house highly sophisticated SA-3s, which are manned by Russians, the Israelis estimate that as many as 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet technicians are stationed within the standstill zone. The SAMs, which constitute one of the greatest antiaircraft shields in history, form a rough triangle along the Suez Canal, guarding the routes to Cairo and the Nile Delta (see maps...