Word: antiaircraft
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...mainland, the Argentine junta denounced Britain's aggressive action, but denied that the Port Stanley airfield had been taken out of operation at all. The Argentines also claimed that their antiaircraft gunners at Port Stanley had downed two Sea Harriers, killing...
Since the July ceasefire, according to the Israelis, the Palestinians in southern Lebanon have increased their strength in Katyusha rocket launchers by 100%, in antitank guns by 150% and in medium-range artillery by 80%. They have been supplied with Soviet-made SA9 missiles and with antiaircraft missile batteries complete with Libyan instructors. But neither the incidents of provocation nor the arms buildup can be considered sufficiently serious to convince world opinion that such an attack would be essential to Israel's security...
...Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage. The group was greeted at the airport by a line of smiling Vietnamese officials, then loaded into several black Volga sedans. As they rode toward the capital, the Americans noticed that much of the countryside had the appearance of a nation on military alert; antiaircraft guns loomed over bomb craters, and camouflaged radar antennae poked their way out of thatch-roofed huts...
Modern does not always mean better. Dunnigan holds that artillery remains the most feared and efficient means of killing soldiers in the field. He notes that during the 1973 Middle East war, Arab forces fired 2,100 Russian-made antiaircraft missiles. They shot down 85 jets-but 45 belonged to Egypt and her allies. Lack of experience and skill with high-tech also showed up on the Iran-Iraq killing grounds where both sides used 1970s weapons and 1917 tactics...
Monday morning, Oct. 15, some 2,000 tanks were joined in the Sinai in one of the biggest armor battles in history. Once outside their antiaircraft missile screen, the Egyptian tanks were vulnerable to Israeli air power; at least 250 were destroyed. It was a reversal of the Israeli setback of the week before. Now the Israelis, already advancing in Syria, would begin to move forcefully on the southern front as well...