Word: antiaircraft
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...firefight picked up, and soon the Marines were being hit by the most intensive bombardment they had faced in Lebanon. One company reported it was being shelled by multiple-launched 107-mm or 122-mm rockets. Another said its command post was being hit by a 23-mm antiaircraft weapon only 817 yards away. Machine-gun and small-arms fire was fierce. "I was scared to death," said Staff Sergeant Eddie Evans, 28, of Smithfield, Term...
Other aspects of the raid were harder to explain. The main reason the two planes had been destroyed, said the Navy, was that they encountered unusually intense antiaircraft fire. Yet the strike had been ordered to retaliate...
PEMULDER heavy Syrian fire the day before on a U.S. reconnaissance plane. Despite that warning, Navy officials claimed that the intense antiaircraft fire the next day had caught their pilots by surprise...
...with experience in the Viet Nam War, "but if you're number five or eight, or worse, 28, you're going to catch hell." It seems likely that the two downed planes and a third that escaped with minor damage were hit with concentrated bursts of conventional antiaircraft or machine-gun fire, rather than by Soviet-made SA-7 or SA9 heat-seeking missiles, which can easily be deflected by dropping heat balloons. By contrast, Israeli pilots minimize the danger of antiaircraft fire by attacking with smaller strike forces often spread over several hours...
...raid was "very successful and achieved our objective" of ending attacks on U.S. reconnaissance flights, which have already resumed. That view is mistaken, according to some military experts familiar with the Middle East. "I'll be surprised if the attack managed to do much lasting damage to Syrian antiaircraft capabilities," said one analyst, who predicted that the Syrians would soon redeploy their batteries. That raises not only the possibility of further strikes from U.S. forces but also the question of how such strikes should be carried...