Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nailed That Bastard!" It was Olds who early this year led the first fighter sweep of the war, suckering seven MIGs to their fate (TIME, Jan. 13). Flying a 1,450-m.p.h. F-4C Phantom fighter nicknamed Scat, he dropped one supersonic MIG-21 himself in that sortie, added another on May 4 while flying MIGCAP (for "combat air patrol") in a raid on the Hanoi transformer installation. A weekend ago, he and his "gibs" (guy-in-the-back-seat, or copilot) spotted 15 slower but more maneuverable MIG-17s coming up fast during a fighter-bomber raid 40 miles...
...five missiles, and two of the heat-seeking Sidewinders slammed home in enemy tail pipes. With Dawn Patrol grace, he adds: "Both pilots were able to bail out, I'm glad to say." In the second of the day's kills, Olds dived on the fleeing MIG-17 only to have a second Red fighter ambush him with blazing cannons. Scat's Sidewinder blasted the first MIG over a ridgetop, and as he wheeled for home Olds shouted over the intercom: "Nailed that bastard!" His gibs, 1st Lieut. Steve Croker, of Middletown, Del., recalls: "We were screaming...
...regrets the absence of fuselage-mounted 20-mm. cannon on the Phantoms. "Good Lord," he says, "would guns come in handy!" The reason: North Vietnamese pilots bore in close to deny U.S. pilots the long-range capability of their Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles. Olds has high respect for the MIG jockeys he confronts. "They'll be damned fine pilots if their air force survives," he says. "We'll try to see that it doesn...
Bombs rained down on the MIG bases of Kep and Hoa Lac and on two rail bridges north of Hanoi. Much of the bombing was what the pilots call "nuts and bolts": such small but vital bits of North Viet Nam's war machine as bridges, barges, trucks and trains...
...strain of North Korea's war machine on a none-too-viable economy. To support its 370,000-man army (plus an aid program to North Viet Nam that is so far limited to supplying small arms, medicines, tractors, diesel engines, psywar personnel, military advisers and 50 MIG instructors), North Korean military spending will run to a hefty $465 million this year, or 30.2% of the total national budget. To justify it, Kim tells his country that war is imminent with the U.S.-backed "imperialistic dictatorship" to the south...