Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egyptian forces are "working day and night seven days a week" learning to use new Stalin tanks, MIG fighters and IL-28 jet bombers, Amer announced last week. But Western military observers think that many months must pass before the Egyptians can master their new weapons...
...called the meeting and brought it new Middle East prestige: with his purchase of Communist arms and his inflammatory broadcasts to neighboring states, he had done as much as any man to seize opportunity on the troubled Mediterranean rim. As a show of his strength, he sent Soviet-made MIG fighters to escort Saudi Arabia's King Saud on his flight across...
...Ouragan (hurricane) jet fighter, landed a French air force order for 350, and began building the first of five new factories. When he brought out the Mystère (TIME, March 17, 1952), U.S. Air Force officers classed it with the F-84 and Russia's MIG-15, and from France, NATO, Israel and India came orders for more than 600 of the Mystère series. With 4,500 aircraft workers on his own payroll, and an additional 30,000 working in the plants of his subcontractors, Dassault now provides employment for more than one-half...
Hammarskjold's C-47 took off from Cairo's International Airport, a sleek new fighter plane flashed aloft from Almaza military airfield just four miles away The plane: one of the first of Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser's new Russian MIG jets to be seen over Egypt...
Inhabitants of the Austrian village of Pamhagen on the Hungarian border were just finishing lunch when four MIG jets came screaming across into Austria from Hungary. The two planes in front, bearing Hungarian air-force markings, were being pursued and fired upon by the two planes in the rear, bearing Russian markings. Suddenly one of the Hungarian planes banked to turn, and the leading Russian plane collided with it. The Hungarian plane crashed and exploded with the pilot at the controls. The Russian plane also crashed, but its pilot came floating down to earth by parachute. Picked up by Austrian...