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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Castro also took the opportunity to scoff at Washington's concern over the disclosure that the Soviet Union had delivered 20 high-powered MiG-23 Flogger jets to Havana. One version of the Flogger can carry nuclear weapons, and its presence in the Caribbean would be a serious violation of the 1962 Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. The MiG-23s are "purely of a defensive nature," insisted Castro. He added that Cuba had received the warplanes a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Letting Go | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...most surprising development was the disclosure that the Soviets had, in the past month or so, delivered 20 MIG-23 Flogger jets to Cuba. One version of this plane can deliver nuclear weapons. If this is the model now in Havana's hands, the U.S.S.R. has seriously violated the 1962 Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviet leader pledged not to give Cuba offensive weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Superpower Smoke Signals | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...promised to the Arab countries by the U.S.S.R. in 1974-75. These include at least two squadrons (totaling 36 planes) of the U.S.'s F-15 Eagle fighter. The 1,650-m.p.h. F-15 is the only aircraft that may be capable of outperforming the MIG-23 "Flogger," which threatens to be Israel's scourge in the air. Thus far the Soviet Union has delivered 70 MIG-23s to Syria, and others are on order in Iraq and Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Israel's Lengthy Shopping List | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...NATO purchasers do not want to rely on the neutral Swedes for so important a component of their national arsenals. This left the French and Americans, whose planes are comparable in size, speed and cost. All three compete favorably with the Soviet Union's new MIG-23 Flogger and even with the MIG-25 Foxbat at altitudes up to 50,000 ft. Still, there are major differences (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Technopolitics in the Air | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

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