Word: ilyushin
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...high, saw little reason to change their estimates. Although the Egyptian air force, according to R.A.F. estimates, outnumbered available "allied" aircraft two to one. it managed to mount only two fighter sorties against the British and French during the entire campaign. Some of Nasser's 50 Soviet-built Ilyushin bombers-perhaps as many as half-were believed to have been flown off to Saudi Arabia and Syria before the Anglo-French air attacks began, but much of his air force was caught on the ground. The British and French claimed to have destroyed 200 Egyptian aircraft and damaged...
Explaining his government's decision, St. Laurent pointed out that Egypt, with airfields only ten minutes' flying time from Tel Aviv, has bought some 200 MIG-15 jet fighters and 40 to 50 Ilyushin jet bombers from the Soviet Union. Even with her new Canadian-built Sabres and French Mysteres, Israel will still be numerically outclassed by the Egyptian Air Force, hopes to equip a third squadron with 24 additional top-flight jet interceptors wherever she can buy them...
...India's imports in the past year has come from the Iron Curtain countries v. 25% from Britain, 8% from West Germany. While the U.S. has handed Nehru's government $500 million in gifts and loans since 1950, Russia has doled out farm machinery and one Ilyushin-14 airliner, worth in all no more than...
...PLANES are being offered to India at bargain prices in an effort to crack the air-transport market there. Indian Airlines, which wants to replace its fleet of obsolete U.S. and British planes, has an offer of twin-engine Ilyushin transports at about $200,000 apiece, with delivery promised within a year v. Western delivery schedules of two to three years for planes that cost upwards...
...engined Ilyushin plane bearing Soviet Premier Bulganin and First Party Secretary Khrushchev had hardly cleared the mountains ringing Kabul when Afghanistan's Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud Khan called a press conference. Daoud's message to the West: no secret political or military pacts had been made with the Soviet Union, and Afghanistan's policy of neutrality was unchanged. The $100 million credit extended to Afghanistan by the departing Russians would be used for peaceful projects, i.e., hydroelectric power, irrigation, etc. In effect, said Daoud, Afghanistan is still free "to shop" with the West. The hint was heavily...