Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the anti-aircraft fire thrown up by the North Vietnamese is the thickest in the history of aerial warfare-it accounted for the loss of 14 U.S. planes last week-U.S. pilots for most of the war were little bothered by the North's MIG air force. The MIGs frequently did not come off the ground to meet U.S. pilots or, when they did, tried merely to force U.S. planes to jettison their bombs and defend themselves. Last August, the U.S. air commander in Viet Nam, Lieut. General William ("Spike") Momyer, told a Senate subcommittee: "We have...
Last week, in retaliation, the U.S. mounted the biggest air strike of the war against the most important of the two MIG bases that had not yet been bombed. Navy and Air Force jets rolled in five times to smash the base at Phuc Yen, northwest of Hanoi, turning the sky into a tapestry of fireballs. Later, Marine planes from Danang ventured farther north than they normally do to make an unusual night raid on Phuc Yen. The Communists filled in many of the bomb craters overnight, but U.S. planes were back the next day to chew out more...
Soviet Helicopters. In the air, Typhoon Carla and the onset of the monsoons accomplished what innumerable SAMS, MIGS and antiaircraft guns could not: U.S. flyers were forced to slacken their pounding of North Viet Nam. On the only two clear days, Thunderchiefs hit rail lines and bridges on the Hanoi-to-China route, and shot down the 89th MIG of the war. Navy raiders from the Oriskany bombed Haiphong bridges and the military compound in the city's suburb where giant Soviet helicopters and SAMS are assembled...
Striking at both dawn and dusk, Intruder bombers from the U.S.S. Constellation dug huge craters in the runway of the previously untouched MIG airbase at Cat Bi, four miles southwest of Haiphong, and set fire to its fuel supply. Hitting at two more new targets, Skyhawks and Crusaders from the carriers Intrepid and Oriskany blasted the Lach Tray and Thuong Ly shipyards, which are located within about 1.7 miles from the center of Haiphong. Though Haiphong's piers have been avoided for fear of provoking a confrontation with the Soviet Union, a confrontation of sorts took place when...
Incapable of Attack. Moscow has indeed sent replacements for two-thirds of the 255 jet fighters-mostly MIG-15s and MIG-17s-that were destroyed in Egypt and Syria during the war, but MIGs are defensive weapons designed primarily to shoot down enemy planes, and the Russians have been notably unhurried in supplying either country with the weapons of modern offense. Western intelligence reports indicate that Russia has replaced only a third of Egypt's 700 lost tanks, only half of its 50 bombed-out bombers and almost none of its heavy guns. Russia, moreover, has long since stopped...