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...offset by the U.S.'s superiority in strategic bombers (533 to 150). Submarine-borne missiles may be excluded from the proposal unless a method can be found to reconcile the difference between the U.S.'s 41-ship fleet carrying 656 missiles and the Soviets' 40-sub flotilla with 280 missiles...
...July 1. But the South Vietnamese ground forces are under no such restrictions, and may well drive deeper and stay longer. In fact, a South Vietnamese naval force was on its way toward the very heart of Cambodia at week's end. Accompanied by 30 U.S. craft, a flotilla of 70 South Vietnamese gunboats headed up the Mekong, bound for Phnom-Penh. Ostensibly, its mission is to evacuate South Vietnamese from the Cambodian capital. Along the way, however, the heavily armed boats did not hesitate to engage Communist troops occupying the key Cambodian river town of Neak Luong...
...Gabriels are mounted on Israel's twelve-ship flotilla of speedy (over 40 knots) French-built missile boats, the last five of which were smuggled out of Cherbourg in December in defiance of France's arms embargo. Each Sa'ar (Hebrew for storm) carries eight Gabriels. According to Pentagon specialists, the missile represents a technological breakthrough and greatly outperforms the Soviet Styx system, which the Egyptian navy used to sink the Israeli destroyer Elath in 1967. Its guidance is self-contained, combining both infra-red (heat-seeking) and radar-homing techniques. The Gabriel hunts down its target...
Meanwhile the Cambodian government yesterday launched a campaign to rid the country of its more than 500,000 Vietnamese citizens. A flotilla of 140 ships was dispatched from South Viet Nam to begin picking up the refugees at Phnom Penh...
...Arab-Israeli war. Earlier this month, Soviet landing craft loaded with Egyptian and perhaps Syrian troops simulated a landing south of Tel Aviv, while some 50 Soviet warships were strung out across the Mediterranean from Libya to Greece as a blocking force against NATO fleets. A Soviet flotilla regularly patrols the Indian Ocean, until recently a British and American preserve...