Word: antiaircraft
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...fire by bringing more missiles into the 32-mile-wide standstill zone, Washington did not disclose even more significant information. The U.S.'s detailed reconnaissance pictures showed that the 36 SA-2 missiles sneaked into the cease-fire zone constitute only the first line of the most massive antiaircraft system ever created...
While Israeli Phantom fighter-bombers remain confined to the other side of the Suez Canal, the Soviets and Egyptians have installed a vast complex of radar-directed antiaircraft missiles and artillery behind the cease-fire zone. The actual count is not known, but American officers concede that the number of missiles is "in the hundreds, but less than 1,000." There is also evidence that some of the missile batteries are already being fortified with concrete revetments, rendering them less vulnerable to bombing attacks. Furthermore, in order to confuse Israeli intelligence analysts, Soviets and Egyptians have bulldozed scores of dummy...
...little more than a jumble of black scratches and splotches on the desert sand. But to the Israeli military command, the pictures demonstrated that the Soviets and Egyptians had violated the truce as soon as it began at 1 a.m. on Aug. 8 by continuing to move SAM-2 antiaircraft missiles into the cease-fire zone. The photos were poor in quality, and had no reference as to when or where they were taken. "I admit you'll have to rely on my word of honor that the dates of the pictures are correct," said the colonel...
...bomb them for fear Russian MIGs would respond. In North Viet Nam the same type of SA-2s had a "kill" rate of less than one success per 1,000 firings. Suddenly they shot down two Phantoms within 30 minutes (the third downed Phantom was apparently hit by antiaircraft fire), indicating obvious improvements in their radar systems...
...even at night. The Soviet answer is a new and reportedly highly effective defense system called ZSU234, which could be used to protect the SA3 sites against ground-hugging planes if the Israelis should eventually decide to attack them. The ZSU234 is a fourbarreled, 23-mm., radar-directed light antiaircraft weapon mounted to a tanklike tracked vehicle...