Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handcuffed in pairs, were subjected to the insults of howling mobs. And the Communists tried to stem "the Rolling Thunder," as U.S. strikes over the North are code-named, by unleashing all the tricks of its air-defense system: SAM missiles, curtains of conventional flak, and forays by MIG-21 fighters...
Back Again. Hanoi sent two of its hottest planes, MIG-21s, after an Iron Handle flight of F-105 Thunderchiefs last week, and for only the second time in the air war, the MIGs cut loose with air-to-air missiles-two Russian ATOLLs, rockets similar to the U.S. heat-seeking Sidewinder. They fared no better than the SAMs: both missed, and the MIGs fled, despite their tactical superiority over the heavier F-105 in air combat...
After detecting a radar aiming-signal pulsing from a Russian-installed surface-to-air rocket site 30 miles north of the city (one missile was believed fired but never visually spotted), four Thunderchiefs went after the nest, which was demolished by one of them. Whereupon four MIG-17s jumped the F-105s damaging two. Outmaneuvering one MIG, Major Fred L. Tracy, 38, of Goldsboro, N.C., got on his adversary's tail, opened up with 20-mm. cannon and was credited with a probable kill. The remaining MIGs fled...
...sight all too familiar to turbulent Iraq, which generally averages at least two revolts a year. Automatic rifles cracked through the streets. Seven Iraqi air force MIG-19s whined low over the presidential palace, peppering it with rockets. Tanks took up positions at the Baghdad radio station. For the second time in ten months, former Premier Aref Abdel Razzak, 42, was up to his old tricks, launching a coup in the name of Nasser-style socialism. The bulk of the army rallied to the side of the government, quashing the uprising. The difference was that last week President Abdel Rahman...
Napoleonic Parallels. De Gaulle's visit began auspiciously enough with the warmest reception accorded any Western visitor in Soviet history. Seven MIG fighters locked in wingtip-to-wingtip formation escorted De Gaulle's plane to its landing. As the general deplaned in khakis and kepi, the band struck up La Marseillaise and a battery of antiaircraft cannon boomed 21 times-so loud and near that bystanders felt the breath of the guns. The honor guard was resplendent in grey, gold and red, and their rifle butts hit the ground with such popping precision that De Gaulle winced involuntarily...