Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists fired 100 shells at Quemoy, overflew Quemoy with MIG-17 jet fighters, dropped no bombs. On Aug. 23 the Communists laid down a tremendous artillery bombardment of 50,000 rounds. On Aug. 24 the Communists fired 40,000 rounds, went into a daily average of 10,000 rounds per day for five days, again held back airpower. On Aug. 29 the Communists kicked off their propaganda onslaught by warning the free world that landing is imminent," warned the Quemoy garrison "to withdraw." Then, two days later, the Communists made a big-and unanticipated-move to scare...
...BATTLE: The Communists held back their big air force from Quemoy-Matsu, but flew out over the Formosa Strait. Result: bitter dogfights between Red MIG-17s and slower Nationalist F-86 Sabres. The MIGs have a capability of 60,000 ft. and 635 knots with afterburner. The Sabres have a top altitude of 48,000 ft. and speed of 600 knots. Yet the Nationalists routed the MIGs. The big difference lay in pilot quality: the Nationalist airmen were eager and carefully trained-their flying time in Sabres alone ranged from 300 to 1,400 hours. The Communists appeared inexperienced...
Before they knew it. two Syrian MIG 17 jets swooped down in an "aggressive" pass. Dalgleish plunged the royal plane earthward, hedgehopped for 20 minutes as it fled back to the Jordanian border while the Syrian MIGs, flown somewhat amateurishly, made five more "quarter attacks" at the plane, but without firing. Landed safely at his capital city of Amman, King Hussein turned to Dalgleish, grinned: "Let's have some breakfast...
...national holiday was declared to celebrate the adventurous King's escape from what he charged was an attempt to kidnap or kill him in a flight over Syria Monday. Hussein, who celebrates his 24th birthday Friday, emerged as a daring Moslem hero for defying the Syrian MIG fighters and making a successful getaway...
Defensive fighter planes-perhaps 90% of the U.S.S.R.'s air force-are another matter. Obsolescent U.S. F-86s armed with Sidewinders so far have been far superior to the MIG-17s, as Free China's pilots have proved (TIME, Oct. 6). Nobody yet knows how well the U.S.'s F-100 series might do against the newest Russian fighter, the MIG-21. Nor is there much fresh information about the new Soviet all-weather, delta-winged interceptor. The big Russian interceptor force is helped in its job by what may be the world's best...