Word: antiaircraft
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...spotted the Soviets using an antiaircraft radar system to track one of their own missiles in flight. The U.S. questioned whether the Soviets were illegally converting antiaircraft defenses into an antiballistic missile system. But the Soviets maintained that they were using the radar only to test the rocket's navigation system. Still, notes the report, the radar activity ceased "a short time later...
...transporting supplies and ammunition and for evacuating their wounded. Today they have trucks, Land Rovers, an ambulance and two tanks, most of them hijacked from the Ethiopians. The Eritreans have learned to combat Ethiopian airpower effectively with everything from rifles and machine guns to captured missiles and conventional antiaircraft guns. In the territory they control, the rebels run schools, clinics, plantations and even small factories. At present, they are engaged in an all-out offensive to capture what they do not yet control: the provincial capital of Asmara and four other cities and towns...
...Communist-supplied weapons, mainly Soviet, were still wrapped in their wooden packing crates-a reminder of the fresh arsenals flowing into the frontline states. Among the prize exhibits was a deadly 14.5-mm. antiaircraft gun with glistening gold-and red-tipped bullets. There was also a Czech-made land mine of Bakelite, undetectable with any of the usual metal devices used by the army. Like the other arms on display, the weapons were newer than the Rhodesians' equipment...
...Arab side, the Syrians have added new squadrons of advanced Russian-made MiG-23 fighters, and even the Egyptians?despite the loss of Soviet supplies since Cairo-Moscow relations cooled?have managed to get quantities of the highly mobile SA-7 Strela, one of the world's most effective antiaircraft missiles...
...antiaircraft battery was suddenly rolled into place on a golf course near Lusaka International Airport last week. Zambian armed forces went on alert, leaves were canceled, and President Kenneth Kaunda issued orders to "shoot on sight" any Rhodesian aircraft that violated his country's airspace. Responding to a warning from Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls...