Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the North Vietnamese capital and China. U.S. Thunderchief and Phantom fighter-bombers scored four direct hits on the steel structure, sent a 300-ft. center span-splashing into the Red River. Elsewhere over the North, Air Force fighter-bombers pounded rail yards, and Navy pilots shot down two MIG...
...advertising revenue from nearly $4,000,000 to $7,000000 last year. The magazine's editorial staff has grown from 17 to 40; trained engineers and literate newsmen provide the magazine with technical accuracy and readable English. Its influence is indisputable. Last April, when the magazine noted that MIG fighter jets were enjoying a sanctuary at some North Vietnamese airfields, members of Congress used the piece to bolster their argument that the fields should be attacked. They soon were. When the British government seemed on the point of withdrawing from the Anglo-French supersonic-transport program, Aviation Week warned...
...Soviet equipment from the fleeing Egyptians. At bases in the Sinai and in Israel, the Israelis have been showing off some of the weaponry to Western technicians and, on at least one occasion, even lending it out. The U.S. sent transport planes to Israel to pick up three captured MIG-21s, the Soviet Union's best fighters. Two MIG-21s, the first ever to fall into U.S. hands, are being test-flown at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The third is being evaluated in laboratories at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Since MIG-21s sometimes challenge...
Hardly a Crater. Streaking in ahead of the dawn, the first waves of Israeli Mirage3 fighter-bombers simultaneously destroyed four Egyptian airbases in the Sinai Peninsula, site of Nasser's massive buildup against Israel in the past month. Some 200 of Nasser's frontline fighters, mostly Russian-built MIG-21s, were caught and destroyed on the ground. At almost the same time, Israeli jets hit Arab bases in Jordan, Syria and Iraq. They swept in from the sea to hit Egyptian bases deeper inside Egypt; and after landing only long enough to refuel, they hammered away until...
...manage to win so big so quickly? Much of the answer can be found in the almost incredible lack of Arab planning, coordination and communications. Despite their swift defeat in 1956, this time the Arabs seemed to expect a long, leisurely war of attrition. Though two squadrons of Algerian MIG-21s arrived, they were a fatal 24 hours too late because Egyptian commanders had failed to instruct them which airbase to head for. In retrospect, it might have been even worse if they had arrived in time for the Israeli raids. Five planeloads of Moroccan troops actually got to Cairo...