Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally, daring pilots venture across the frontiers into enemy territory -intentionally or by navigational accident. One Soviet technique has been to send a MIG jet screaming down the bristling line of Western air-defense radars and fighter strips along the border of East and West Germany, remaining just inside Communist territory. Then the MIG darts suddenly across the dead line. As Western units scramble, delicate Soviet receivers across the border carefully note how long it takes the planes to get in the air, detect changes in frequencies of allied radars and radio circuits, check the order of battle, even learn...
...Measures." As Moscow told it some 30 hours later in a stiff note protesting the U.S.'s "gross provocation," Russian MIG fighters had been sent up to intercept the wandering T-39. The MIGs, claimed the Russians, had signaled with conventional "follow-me" wigwags, and followed that with a warning burst of gunfire. When the T-39 "did not react," said the note, the fighters were "forced to undertake measures" to protect East German airspace...
...MIGs & Rockets. Above the reviewing stand in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución screamed supersonic MIG-21 Russian fighters, now flown, said announcers, "by Cuban youngsters." Below rolled an hour-long parade of Russian-made tanks, artillery, armored cars, rocket launchers-and battalion after battalion of tough-looking, Russian-trained troops. "We alone." shouted Castro, "could not have resisted imperialism-the blockades, the aggressions, the economic strangulation. But with these arms, we can fight against the best-equipped forces of the imperialist Army...
...into an East-West confrontation, as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed aid to Algeria's Socialist Strongman Ahmed ben Bella. Unloaded at night from a pair of Cuban freighters in the Algerian harbor of Oran were at least four crated MIG jet fighters, 800 tons of ammunition, three field radio stations and more than enough Soviet-made weapons-including tanks, field guns, antiaircraft guns-to arm an armored regiment. Cuban soldiers accompanied the hardware. Neighborly Nasser also sent a pair of ships loaded with military equipment, and reportedly airlifted paratroopers direct...
...evidence before, their presence overwhelms today. Awaiting take-off of their TU-114 at José Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...