Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force chief of staff, General John P. McConnell, was hopping mad. He had just heard that two U.S. F-105 Thunderchiefs had been shot down by MIGs of the tiny (36 jets) North Vietnamese air force. What McConnell wanted to know was how the Thunderchief, a big brute of a plane with speeds up to 1,400 m.p.h., had been bested in combat by the snail-paced (730 m.p.h.) MIG-17, a relic of the Korean...
...MIG attack did come from the south-seven jets barreling out of a heavy mist bank overhanging the area. Five angled off toward the west, apparently as decoys. The other two headed straight for one of the orbiting four-plane flights...
...MIGs & Sidewinders. Hanoi's propagandists met the challenge from the air with the only thing they have to spare: words. North Viet Nam's goat-bearded President Ho Chi Minh soothed his anxious population with wild claims of 165 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes shot down (the actual toll since February has been less than 30). But Ho apparently did get help of sorts from Red China late last week when four silvery MIG-17s tangled briefly with U.S. Navy Phantom jets, then fled toward the Chinese island of Hainan, 150 miles east of North Viet...
...even stopped by the application of U.S. air-and seapower, but it would clearly be a tough, hard fight. North Viet Nam's navy, numbering about 26 PT-boats and some 50 armed junks, is inconsequential, while the straight-shooting air force mounts only 36 jets -all obsolescent MIG...
...jungle roads that the Reds are building to facilitate troop and supply movements. Moreover, U.S. pilots were flying missions under new "rules of engagement" authorizing hot pursuit of enemy jets right into Red China, if necessary. So far, it has not been necessary; though Peking now has supersonic MIG-19s and MIG-21s sitting at airbases in Yunnan province, just over the North Viet Nam border, and on Hainan Island, 150 miles east of the Viet Nam coast, the planes have been inactive...