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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many as 100 MIG-21j interceptors, along with 70 to 100 Soviet pilots plus crewmen. The planes, with a longer range, better radar and a more effective fire-control system than earlier MIG-21s flown bv Eevotians. are based at Cairo West, Beni Suef, Aswan, Mansura and Inshahs. Only once, so far as is known, have they and Israeli pilots encountered one another; in Aoril, over Lake Qurun southwest of Ca;ro, Israelis suddenly discovered that the MIGs they were about to jump were being flown by Russian-speaking pilots. Both sides backed away and have steered clear ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Moscow-on-the-Nile | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...short distance away at Cairo West, where Russian forces have established their headquarters in a for mer British base. Four clusters of SA-3s protect the Aswan High Dam, two more are believed to be at Baltim on the Mediterranean coast, and others are at the Russian bases at Mansura and Inshahs. The number of SA3 sites, each with eight missiles and 100 to 150 men, may eventually reach about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Moscow-on-the-Nile | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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