Word: dogfighter
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...dispatching hit squads to assassinate the President and other public figures (a charge that Gaddafi flatly denied, and one that seems to have faded for lack of firm evidence). Gaddafi is the only foreign leader whose forces have engaged the U.S. in armed combat during the present Administration (the dogfight in the Gulf of Sidra last August...
That's one for the geopoliticians to sort out. What with the First Secretary on the radio trying to talk him down, and the second Firefox prototype trying to shoot him down, Mitchell Gant has his hands full. He is engaged in a dogfight covering thousands of square miles, and it is a thing of wit and beauty and, above all, lightning reflexes. These planes move with the blasting power of a Star Wars spaceship, and it is fun to see the future zinging and skittering through our own airspace. Eastwood's laconic professionalism plays off amusingly against...
Rumors that Libya would attempt some type of dramatic revenge have been circulating ever since U.S. pilots downed two Libyan jets in a dogfight over the Gulf of Sidra last August. Haig and others have spoken of a "hit list" of potential U.S. targets. Although Libya has labeled these claims "insolent in the extreme," security around American leaders has been significantly tightened in recent weeks. Secret Service agents carrying UZI submachine guns have been notably more prominent at Reagan's side during public appearances. Air Force One and other official planes have been equipped with devices to foil heat...
...clash, and at least eight more appeared later. The pilot who fired the Atoll missile must surely have known that he was facing superior American aircraft; in any case, at least two Libyan MiG-23s, much more advanced aircraft than the Su-22s, were in the area of the dogfight and did not intervene. Did Tripoli order the attack or did the pilot panic? Did he make a mistake of bravado or simply trigger the Atoll by accident? Or did he perhaps believe that, as had happened at least once before, in 1973, the American planes would not return fire...
...miles south of Beirut, killing five and injuring 25. After another two-day interval, the Israelis attacked once more, damaging Palestinian and Lebanese leftist bases near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and at Jazzin and Basir in south central Lebanon. Ten were killed and 90 wounded. In a dogfight between Syrian and Israeli jets, the first such encounter in five months, a Syrian MiG was destroyed...