Word: antiaircraft
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Iraq charges that the Kurds are supplied with sophisticated equipment by the U.S. and Iran. TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who returned from a 13-day trip to Iraq last week, saw no evidence of this. The Kurds have only a few heavy weapons-notably World War II-vintage antiaircraft guns. But Iran, long at odds with the far-left Iraqi government, may well be providing the Kurds with small arms. The rifles carried by Barzani's bandoliered troops are mostly Czech-designed, Iran-manufactured Brno rifles...
...Tomcat for the Navy. The Tomcat is equipped to carry the Phoenix missile, which is capable of knocking out the Soviets' newest interceptor, the MIG-25, but costs $23.3 million ?more than twice the original estimated price. The Soviet Union has the edge in antiaircraft missiles. Its air defenses boast some 10,000 launchers, including the deadly SA-6, which knocked down U.S.-built jets with devastating accuracy during the Middle East...
...explanation was a fear of terrorism, which lately has increased both in ferocity and sophistication at European airports. Adding urgency to the precautionary measures were rumors that terrorists were roaming the area with antiaircraft missiles. According to one report, the extremists had Soviet-built SA-7 Strelas, a shoulder-launched missile. Another rumor was that they had broken into NATO bases in Brussels and stolen Redeye missiles, the U.S. counterpart of the Strela. Whatever the case, European security men were plainly worried...
...airpower on the battlefield. Ian Smart, deputy director of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs, notes that "Soviet technology in Arab hands has consigned to history" an era in which the "tank and aircraft ruled the battlefield." The introduction of new highly mobile and simply operated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, Smart argues, "marks a transformation that recalls the way in which the longbow enabled the English foot soldier of the 14th century to overcome the mounted knight. The Arab guiding his Snapper [antitank missile] to destroy a 50-ton tank has been refighting the Battle...
American engineers are already dissecting and studying a Soviet SA-6 antiaircraft missile that was captured intact by the Israelis. Presumably, they will soon be able to develop electronic devices to confuse that missile's targeting mechanism-just as they did with the Soviet SA-2 and SA3 missiles after U.S. pilots encountered them over North Viet...