Word: ilyushins
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...move Hanoi's troops between its forward bases in Cambodia and the China border and the rest of Viet Nam, Soviet pilots fly them in mammoth Antonov-22 transports. Tan Son Nhut airport near Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) is kept busy handling incoming flights of Ilyushin-76s, carrying pallets of artillery ammunition for use, presumably, in Cambodia. Danang airport, almost a ghost field after 1975, now serves as a refueling base for long-range TU-95D reconnaissance planes of the Soviet naval air fleet...
...internal wars between its Ethiopian client, the Marxist regime headed by Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, and the rebel forces that have captured chunks of Ethiopian territory in Eritrea on the Red Sea and the Ogaden region bordering the Somali Democratic Republic. In mid-December, big Antonov and Ilyushin transport planes began wheeling into the airport at Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. The airlift, which appears to be concluding, has brought iri $850 million worth of arms, including T-34 tanks, field guns, heavy mortars and light missiles. U.S. officials believe Moscow has also supplied a number of fighter planes...
Died. Sergei Ilyushin, 82, Soviet aeronautics genius who designed more than 50 different airplanes, including the new IL-86 airbus soon to be put into service; in Moscow. Ilyushin's heavily armored low-flying tank buster called the Stormovik destroyed so many Nazi tanks in World War II that the Germans dubbed it "the flying death...
...normal circumstances, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev might have arrived in East Berlin for last week's summit meeting of 29 European Communist leaders by train. But instead of making the leisurely 27-hour railway journey across Poland to Germany, Brezhnev flew to the summit by Ilyushin jet. Out of view but scarcely out of mind was the huge jumble of rails ripped from the tracks near Warsaw late last month by rioting Polish workers. Indeed the mass strikes protesting food price hikes that swept across Poland provided a fitting background for the uneasy, restless mood...
...result of Soviet arm twisting." The Soviets feared that the M.P.L.A. would be unable to use the sophisticated weaponry that Moscow was supplying. Since the Russians were unwilling to send in troops themselves, they pressured the Cubans into doing so. But the Cubans have suffered considerable casualties, and their Ilyushin 18 and Bristol Britannia transports have been flying home with dead and wounded. Says a Western intelligence officer: "Morale among the Cubans in Angola and back in Havana is very...