Word: antonov
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...Black Sea; another carrier is under construction. Both ships are designed to carry helicopters and serve as offshore bases for mobile invasion forces. The Russians are also building the world's largest troop-lifting helicopter, which can carry 200 men, and the biggest air transport, the Antonov 22, which accommodates 500 troops in battle dress. In addition, they now have 50,000 airborne "red berets," patterned after U.S. Green Berets, and 6,000 black-bereted "naval infantry," the Soviet equivalent of the U.S. Marines. All of this represents not only a major departure in Russian strategy but also...
...EGYPT lost at least three-quarters of its air force, 750 of its 1,000 tanks and enormous quantities of lighter vehicles, weapons and ammunition. A massive Russian airlift-up to 75 Antonov-12 transports a day land at the Cairo airport-has already replaced some of the losses, bringing in an estimated 150 crated jets and a variety of halftracks and trucks. Even if the airlift were main tained at its present rate, it would take at least a year to replace all the equipment that was destroyed or abandoned in the war-and the Russians do not seem...