Word: antiaircraft
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...Ethiopia has urgently requested about $30 million in light arms and ammunition from the U.S. in order to carry on its fight against Eritrean secession ists, who are being supplied by Algeria and Syria with Russian machine guns and antiaircraft missiles...
...series, assorted MIG fighter-bombers and the deadly accurate SAM antiaircraft missiles. In addition, the Kremlin for decades has shipped massive quantities of war materiel to the Warsaw Pact states and to the armies of North Korea and North Viet Nam. Dozens of other Third World countries admire Soviet weapons: MIGS, AK-47 automatic rifles (widely regarded as the world's best combat rifle) and armored cars are highly prized...
...employer of some 2,500 people, the company, says President John Hamill, has "worked hard for this contract, sinking five years of effort in winning the confidence of the Persian Gulf countries." But training of troops in the use of a wide assortment of weapons, from rifles to antiaircraft guns, as well as in small-unit tactics and advanced infantry training maneuvers is a new undertaking for Vinnell. To assemble the necessary expertise, a brisk company recruitment effort is under way among combat-skilled former soldiers. The veterans who will make up the training staff will enjoy, besides their regular...
...forces in small-unit action disrupted river and road communications and raided small government outposts in an effort to push Saigon's men back into provincial capitals and district towns. Saigon's response was to take to the air with more than 100 sorties daily against Communist antiaircraft positions and supply convoys. In one bombing attack northwest of Kontum City, Saigon claimed that it destroyed 203 Soviet-built Molotova trucks carrying ammunition, food and fuel for Communist soldiers...
...besieged city. Because of heavy clouds, South Vietnamese air force planes at first failed to get off preliminary air strikes. Once Saigon did get some A-37 fighter planes into action, the pilots refused to fly below 12,000 ft. out of respect for the Communists' imposing antiaircraft arsenal. That, in turn, made it impossible for government helicopters carrying reinforcements to land within the city. In the end, the South Vietnamese were only able to put two Ranger companies totaling about 200 men into the battle. After two days of close fighting between outnumbered government troops and Communist tanks...