Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much the same story?Indian quantity and Pakistan quality. Indian pilots are flying a variety of fighters, from French Mystères and British Vampires to Russian MIG-21s and Indian-built Gnats. The Pakistanis have U.S. supersonic jets, which seem to have made a spectacular number of kills?Pakistani Air Vice Marshal Nur Khan claims that 108 Indian planes have been shot down. If true, that amounts to a fifth of the Indian air force...
...Four U.S. Navy Skyraiders, slow, piston-driven fighter-bombers, were jumped by two MIG jets over North Viet Nam. The American pilots went down to the deck, dodged around hills and through valleys. When one pursuing MIG fired two rockets that went wide, two of the Skyraiders got a bead on the Red jet, nailed it with 20-mm. cannon fire, and sent it down in flames...
...flying a reconnaissance mission over the Sea of Japan, 50 miles off the North Korean coast, its electronic ears attuned to the radio and radar of the Communist half of the peninsula. Suddenly, two North Korean MIG-17 jet fighters flashed down. Though the U.S. plane was clearly over international waters and flying a course parallel to the Korean shore line, the Red jets opened fire with cannon and machine guns...
...fact, though damaged by the MIG gunfire, the RB-47 limped safely to Yokota Airbase in Japan, with none of its six crewmen injured. It was the eighth air attack on U.S. aircraft by North Koreans since the armistice of 1953. Washington's retort was blunt and potent: the presentation to the South Korean air force of 20 new F-5 fighter planes packing twice the punch at twice the speed of the marauding MIG...
...rule. The commander of the Fighting Cocks is no spring chicken. At 40, he still bears scars from his teen-age days as a rodeo rider in Oklahoma, where he grew up. He has been flying combat aircraft for 22 years. He was a Korean War ace-with eight MIGs to his credit. His left eye is permanently bloodshot as a result of zooming so close to a MIG kill in Korea that the ejecting Communist pilot struck Risner's canopy, shattering glass throughout the cockpit. But Risner insists that "my eyesight is perfect"-and both the medics...