Word: antiaircraft
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...Soviets intensified the war and appeared to gain ground. Deadly Mi-24 helicopters and elite Spetsnaz commando units regularly ambushed rebel units and supply caravans with devastating effect: mujahedin casualties rose to all-time highs. Then the Reagan Administration began shipping Stingers, those compact but lethal antiaircraft missiles, to the guerrillas. Soon the air war turned around. By one conservative estimate, the Soviets last year alone lost 270 aircraft worth about $2.2 billion...
...latest rebel siege began about six weeks ago, forcing Kabul to airlift up to 50 tons of food a night before rebel antiaircraft fire halted the flights. To smash the blockade, Soviet and Afghan troops launched a major assault on Dec. 19. Sources said the attackers quickly punched through the Sataw Kandaw Pass on the twisting Gardez-Khost road. But the rebels soon dug in. With 6,000 to 10,000 guerrillas deployed along the road, the insurgents claimed to have halted the drive before it could pick up speed...
...everywhere on the offensive. Soviet and government troops have firm control only over the largest cities, while the rebels, thought to be 200,000 strong, are more unified and better armed than ever and range freely across the countryside. An important reason for their new mobility: U.S.-supplied Stinger antiaircraft missiles that are being used with increasing success to deprive Soviet ground forces of the air support they long used to protect troops and supply lines...
...retaking a key oasis town near the border. Angered by the setback at Maaten es Sarra, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi last week ordered a retaliatory air strike on N'Djamena. But as two Soviet-built Tupolev-22 bombers approached the capital, French troops fired a U.S.-made Hawk antiaircraft missile. One of the jets exploded in a green phosphorescent fireball, and the other fled toward Libya. Two other Tupolevs later struck the town of Abeche, some 400 miles to the east, killing two civilians but missing their target, an airstrip...
...number of years" and is believed to have up to 5,000 troops in the country, mostly in the Aozou Strip. The Reagan Administration has provided $33 million in military aid to Chad over the past ten months and last week was considering a new request for antiaircraft Stinger missiles. The White House hopes that Libya's losses in the war will help lead to a popular uprising against Gaddafi. But though the Libyan leader acknowledged in a speech two weeks ago that defections from his army have become a major problem, he is not about to give...