Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest incident involved an Israeli patrol boat, which came within 150 yards of the Syrian seacoast town of Musadiye. According to Syria, the boat fired toward shore. According to Israel, the Syrians fired first. Either way a flock of Syrian MIG-17s and MIG-21s came flying in from one direction and Israeli Mirage-Ills from the other, and before the two sides stopped shooting, one MIG went into the drink and another crashed in Syrian territory...
Israel bagged another Arab MIG during the week-this one without firing a shot. After sending a note to the Israeli air force earlier this month, Iraqi air force Captain Mounir Rowfa, 30, flew his MIG-21 from Al Rashid Air Force Base near Baghdad to an undisclosed Israeli airbase, and gave the West its first closeup look at the Soviets' 1,200-m.p.h. fighter. Rowfa claimed that he had been planning his defection for months because of religious discrimination (he is a Catholic) and Iraq's war against the Kurds...
...Minh's air defenders struck back last week. Eleven U.S. warplanes were shot down over North Viet Nam by antiaircraft batteries, MIG-17 jets, and a record barrage of 74 SAM missiles. A sleek new MIG-21 also showed up in North Vietnamese skies with air-to-air missiles that barely missed three American raiders. It was the heaviest week's action of an expanding air war, and it brought to 303 the total number of U.S. airplanes that have now been lost over Viet...
...fighter-bombers last week continued to hammer at Hanoi's roads, bridges and fuel depots. As in the week before, Hanoi responded with the most sophisticated weaponry in its defensive armory-and again found it useless. Twenty SAM ground-to-air missiles were fired. All missed. Supersonic MIG-21 fighters rose to tangle with U.S. Air Force F-4C Phantoms flying bomber escort north of Hanoi. North Viet Nam is thought to have only 15 of the advanced Russian jets, and the encounter cost them two of those, knocked down by the Phantoms' Sidewinder missiles-the second...
...Eshkol sent supersonic fighters zipping eight miles into Syria near the Sea of Galilee. They destroyed earth-moving equipment used by the Arabs on a project to divert the sources of the Jordan River away from Israel. In an ensuing dogfight, Israel's air force bagged a Syrian MIG-21, the first ever to be shot down by a French-made Mirage...