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When the deadline passed at 6 a.m. Thursday without any action from Dudayev, Russian troops began massing on the borders of the mountainous, land-locked region. Meanwhile, Dudayev's opponents sent sophisticated jet fighters -- planes that could never have been procured or even operated without Russian help -- to bomb military bases and the airport in Grozny. To show that Yeltsin really meant business, 30 Antonov An-12 transport planes with soldiers and armor were deployed in the neighboring ethnic republic of North Ossetia...
...Jet engine exhaust deposits nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, where they can chemically react with and deplete ozone...
...jet was designed to reach extremely high altitudes for reconnaissance during the Cold War, and was converted to become the NASA ER-2, a major part of the SPADE program...
...scientists will be unable to determine exactly where this reversal occurs using NASA's ER-2 jet...
...ozone layer]," says David W. Fahey, a research physicist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aeronomy Laboratory, and co-author of the paper. "The stage has been nicely set."Photo Courtesy the US Air ForceThe scientists flew their instruments in a converted version of this U-2 jet, which NASA calls...